Jackie Chan: Battle Creek Brawl / City Hunter (Double Feature) - July 16, 2013

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by Cactus

I would have thought Shout being an enthusiast's label, but I guess they're just money grubbing bastards who realise that apparantly even enthusiasts like blu-ray.com users don't care for quality.

Shout is working with the Fortune Star library so unless Shout wants to do what Miramax has done and create new HD masters, we'll have to deal with what is out there.

Remember that for a long, long, long, LONG time... anamorphic DVDs of Asian films released in Hong Kong were pretty much non-existent.

And even then the non-anamorphic letterbox DVDs left a lot, a lot, A LOT to be desired. Heck, I recently bought a VCD for Osaka Wrestling Restaurant and the picture looked like the film was from the 1980s. Imagine my shock when I discovered it was released in 2004!

Now new to video titles from 2006 onward in HK are sourced from HD masters. Its just the Fortune Star catalog library that is mostly upscaled on Blu-ray. And pretty much all DVD releases are now anamorphic widescreen.

And in Thailand... ha. That's another uphill battle. The Thai movies on Blu-ray are sourced from HD masters but DVDs are a mixed bag. My Thai DVD of Confucius is nonanamorphic letterbox!!! Yes, a film from 2010 is presented in straight up 4x3 widescreen.