Borgen

[malcy30]

Originally Posted by Zot!

malcy, is this just speculation on your part, or were sales actually mentioned as a reason for S2 not coming to BD?

The only reason I'm interested in the Scandinavian releases of these shows is because the UK release of the Bridge was for some reason fairly messed up (2.0 audio only, burned-in subs, and squeezed on to 2 discs rather than 3). It sounds like The Killing collection remedied at least some of these concerns.

It would be great to know how Borgen stacks up.

Bit convoluted but a friend of the partner of one of my friends in our Copenhagen office was on the crew. She works as a production assistant there and has been on the shoots for both The Killing and Borgen.

I asked her to check about the BD for me. Was her comment that sales were poor, however not surprised as S1 was DKK400 so just over £40 and not reduced. They dropped the DVD prices some time after release but BD just went OOP, is hard to find.

Denmark Borgen S1 BD obviously has removable subtitles in Danish and English, with only Dolby 5.1 on 2 disks.
As I said the extras are obviously all Danish with deleted scenes and featurette.

Have the Swedish BD of The Bridge as now spend more time in Stockholm than Copenhagen. Again removable subtitles including English.

[Zot!]

Originally Posted by malcy30

Bit convoluted but a friend of the partner of one of my friends in our Copenhagen office was on the crew. She works as a production assistant there and has been on the shoots for both The Killing and Borgen.

I asked her to check about the BD for me. Was her comment that sales were poor, however not surprised as S1 was DKK400 so just over £40 and not reduced. They dropped the DVD prices some time after release but BD just went OOP, is hard to find.

Denmark Borgen S1 BD obviously has removable subtitles in Danish and English, with only Dolby 5.1 on 2 disks.
As I said the extras are obviously all Danish with deleted scenes and featurette.

Have the Swedish BD of The Bridge as now spend more time in Stockholm than Copenhagen. Again removable subtitles including English.

Thanks! I appreciate the info! I was disappointed by the UK Bridge, in comparison to the Scandinavian release, it seemed pretty crippled. It seems The Killing and hopefully Borgen will be an improvement.

[McCrutchy]

I e-mailed Arrow regarding the audio and Aspect Ratio of their Borgen releases:

I can confirm that both series one and two of Borgen have 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio with an 2.20:1 Aspect Ratio.

2.20:1 appears to be the OAR for the series.

[gambra]

Is the video on the Arrow discs actually progressive like the listings say or are they 25/50i since I assumed it's filmed in PAL?

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by gambra

Is the video on the Arrow discs actually progressive like the listings say or are they 25/50i since I assumed it's filmed in PAL?

I did not ask, as I assume it will be 1080/50i.

[jimmybing]

Is this brand new packaging, or is it just a slipcase for the two separate season sets? Would this play on a Region 1 player, or is it locked? Thanks for any help.

[Zot!]

Originally Posted by jimmybing

Is this brand new packaging, or is it just a slipcase for the two separate season sets? Would this play on a Region 1 player, or is it locked? Thanks for any help.

Maybe someone else could confirm the region locking for you. Regardless, be aware that it is very likely 1080/50i. If your set-up cannot play 50i, this would not work.

I assume it is just a slipcase. Furthermore, there is another season coming, so the "collection" seem premature.

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by jimmybing

Is this brand new packaging, or is it just a slipcase for the two separate season sets? Would this play on a Region 1 player, or is it locked? Thanks for any help.

I don't have the individual releases, but this is a slipcase with two separate double disc amarays that are marked for individual sale, so I'm 99% certain these are exactly the same as the individual releases.

Also, like The Killing, the specs on the two releases are different for each season. Season one is 1080p23.976 with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio, and season two is 1080/50i with DTS-HD HR 5.1 audio.