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[darrellmaclaine]

Originally Posted by dvdboy

I imagine either the materials weren't supplied 'ready for branch encoding' or the facility that Fabulous Films used were unable to do branch encoding / authoring.

It might also be a cost issue, as historically Studios had much higher budgets for disc authoring than smaller UK / Boutique labels. Are the Fabulous Films discs English only, or do they contain all of the dub and subtitle languages of the original Universal releases?

The strange thing about this is Fabulous usually reuse the original encoding and disc structure for Universal stuff wherever it already exists, only adding their own ident to the beginning.

[dvdboy]

Originally Posted by darrellmaclaine

The strange thing about this is Fabulous usually reuse the original encoding and disc structure for Universal stuff wherever it already exists, only adding their own ident to the beginning.

Hmm, that's very strange. I assume they normally just pay a fee to the original authoring facility to restore the project and swap out the logo if everything else is the same. Perhaps in this case the original authoring archive couldn't be found, so the disc(s) were rebuilt from scratch, and it was cheaper to do two discs with a straight feature on each, rather than rebuild the seamless branching authoring.

I just assume that Universal provided Studio Master files for their films, for Fabulous to author using their local facility. I think Universal historically used Deluxe.