Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant and other VEI titles at Walmart

[McCrutchy]

Hey guys, just FYI, I spotted the following VEI titles in my Wally World today, for $9.96/$12.96 each. This was extremely surprising to me, personally, as I knew VEI titles were budget releases, and I had honestly suspected them of using coasters. But lo and behold, I picked up Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant, and it is a pressed BD-25!

But the good news doesn't end there. The back cover is adorable, rife with specification errors and omissions, including a DVD "Region 1 / NTSC" symbol, and an indication of a "4:3 aspect ratio" (!), which is obviously ported from VEI's television DVD jacket art.

VEI has included both English and Spanish 5.1 and 2.0 audio tracks, and even subtitles in both languages, but all the case notes is "English, Spanish Surround 5.1". The back cover does get one thing right, though, the audio tracks are lossy Dolby Digital. It's also got the copy-protection symbol and Blu-ray Disc logo, and the run time of 99 minutes is also essentially correct, so there's that. Also, the entire back cover uses large-print text, which is a nice touch.

Also, this is an Orion Pictures film, and they've kept the original opening logo (which is on the cover art) and theme music, too. How awesome is that?!

Now, the other discs might be different, and I sort of just glanced at them, but I feel like this is a pretty good indicator for the other films.

I think this is really neat. Yes, these are budget releases, and probably, low quality films, but for the price, it's fun to pick one up, especially in Wally World's oasis of DVDs. And kudos to VEI for pressing discs instead of using BD-Rs.

Here are the titles (there is one more I can't remember, but I'm fairly certain I saw four titles):

[McCrutchy]

Here is the BDInfo scan for Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant, the VEI title I picked up today. The disc has no extras, but there is a menu and scene selection.

The optional English and Spanish subtitles are in a small white font.

                                                                                                                Total   Video                                             
Title                                                           Codec   Length  Movie Size      Disc Size       Bitrate Bitrate Main Audio Track                          Secondary Audio Track
-----                                                           ------  ------- --------------  --------------  ------- ------- ------------------                        ---------------------
00000.MPLS                                                      AVC     1:40:27 16,897,609,728  17,039,032,308  22.43   19.98   DD AC3 5.1 448Kbps                        DD AC3 5.1 448Kbps

DISC INFO:

Disc Title:     LARRY GAYE
Disc Size:      17,039,032,308 bytes
Protection:     AACS
BD-Java:        No
BDInfo:         0.5.8

PLAYLIST REPORT:

Name:                   00000.MPLS
Length:                 1:40:27.730 (h:m:s.ms)
Size:                   16,897,609,728 bytes
Total Bitrate:          22.43 Mbps

VIDEO:

Codec                   Bitrate             Description     
-----                   -------             -----------     
MPEG-4 AVC Video        19984 kbps          1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1

AUDIO:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
Dolby Digital Audio             English         448 kbps        5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN -4dB
Dolby Digital Audio             English         192 kbps        2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -4dB
Dolby Digital Audio             English         448 kbps        5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN -4dB
Dolby Digital Audio             English         192 kbps        2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -4dB

SUBTITLES:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
Presentation Graphics           English         26.452 kbps                     
Presentation Graphics           Spanish         26.429 kbps                     

FILES:

Name            Time In         Length          Size            Total Bitrate   
----            -------         ------          ----            -------------   
00000.M2TS      0:00:00.000     1:40:27.730     16,897,609,728  22,426          

CHAPTERS:

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------          -------         ------          --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  
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2               0:08:01.731     0:10:59.408     20,545 kbps     33,140 kbps     00:11:35.403    30,451 kbps     00:09:21.018    27,605 kbps     00:09:16.013    107,114 bytes   558,134 bytes   00:11:43.077    
3               0:19:01.140     0:06:55.414     22,918 kbps     38,563 kbps     00:19:45.559    34,011 kbps     00:19:41.513    32,660 kbps     00:19:36.550    119,485 bytes   546,057 bytes   00:24:47.068    
4               0:25:56.554     0:08:03.483     20,874 kbps     53,702 kbps     00:30:43.842    33,548 kbps     00:27:49.250    29,205 kbps     00:27:49.250    108,830 bytes   827,367 bytes   00:33:51.654    
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6               0:42:01.518     0:07:54.474     19,750 kbps     42,264 kbps     00:48:09.428    34,217 kbps     00:48:08.218    28,538 kbps     00:48:08.218    102,970 bytes   639,219 bytes   00:48:11.263    
7               0:49:55.993     0:10:58.657     21,644 kbps     34,091 kbps     00:59:19.973    30,584 kbps     00:59:04.791    30,208 kbps     00:50:54.509    112,841 bytes   681,134 bytes   00:55:58.396    
8               1:00:54.651     0:07:49.051     19,173 kbps     30,854 kbps     01:05:42.146    28,960 kbps     01:05:38.142    28,498 kbps     01:05:30.885    99,960 bytes    599,240 bytes   01:06:19.600    
9               1:08:43.702     0:07:45.882     18,939 kbps     32,311 kbps     01:13:21.355    26,657 kbps     01:11:46.343    25,121 kbps     01:16:10.482    98,740 bytes    665,732 bytes   01:13:36.995    
10              1:16:29.585     0:09:35.574     20,439 kbps     37,838 kbps     01:26:03.074    31,552 kbps     01:25:59.946    27,118 kbps     01:25:54.941    106,561 bytes   654,150 bytes   01:17:38.570    
11              1:26:05.160     0:09:23.563     21,065 kbps     45,359 kbps     01:26:09.247    40,550 kbps     01:26:07.620    36,889 kbps     01:26:07.871    109,825 bytes   688,193 bytes   01:31:11.048    
12              1:35:28.723     0:04:59.007     10,354 kbps     30,600 kbps     01:36:40.544    26,403 kbps     01:36:37.082    23,942 kbps     01:36:32.077    53,987 bytes    747,718 bytes   01:40:04.456    

STREAM DIAGNOSTICS:

File            PID             Type            Codec           Language                Seconds                 Bitrate                 Bytes           Packets         
----            ---             ----            -----           --------                --------------          --------------          -------------   -----           
00000.M2TS      4113 (0x1011)   0x1B            AVC                                     6027.605                19,985                  15,057,343,290  81,917,681      
00000.M2TS      4352 (0x1100)   0x81            AC3             eng (English)           6027.605                448                     337,551,872     1,883,660       
00000.M2TS      4353 (0x1101)   0x81            AC3             eng (English)           6027.605                192                     144,665,088     941,830         
00000.M2TS      4354 (0x1102)   0x81            AC3             eng (English)           6027.605                448                     337,551,872     1,883,660       
00000.M2TS      4355 (0x1103)   0x81            AC3             eng (English)           6027.605                192                     144,665,088     941,830         
00000.M2TS      4608 (0x1200)   0x90            PGS             eng (English)           6027.605                26                      19,930,765      117,578         
00000.M2TS      4609 (0x1201)   0x90            PGS             spa (Spanish)           6027.605                26                      19,913,002      120,188

[Buscemi]

Could the other one be Balls Out? Wikipedia lists eight released titles from the current Orion that aren't with eOne or another label (Image and Gravitas Ventures, mainly) and three are shown here. The other four are Night Owls, Fort Tilden (probably too highbrow to be a Wal-Mart exclusive), Jane Wants a Boyfriend (recently given a DVD-only release), and No Stranger Than Love (but that one only came out two months ago).

I also see Orion has a movie on Bill "Spaceman" Lee coming out. I imagine eOne gets its home video rights (possibly pair it with The Phenom in repackagings).

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by Buscemi

Could the other one be Balls Out? Wikipedia lists eight released titles from the current Orion that aren't with eOne or another label (Image and Gravitas Ventures, mainly) and three are shown here. The other four are Night Owls, Fort Tilden (probably too highbrow to be a Wal-Mart exclusive), Jane Wants a Boyfriend (recently given a DVD-only release), and No Stranger Than Love (but that one only came out two months ago).

I also see Orion has a movie on Bill "Spaceman" Lee coming out. I imagine eOne gets its home video rights (possibly pair it with The Phenom in repackagings).

I can't remember, and I could be wrong, but they all have the distinctive Blu-ray banner that's currently only pictured with Tell. I thought it was another film like that, but as I said, I could be wrong.

I doubt Wal-Mart would carry something called Balls Out in-store, though, so if there is a fourth VEI title, it's probably not that.

[Spootnek]

All three of these and Balls Out are showing up at Dollar Tree now.