Howard the Duck

[beadelf]

Originally Posted by indisposed

Howard the Duck cost me roughly £12.89 ; I thought that was a decent price.

That is I hope subtitles are not burned onto image...they shouldnt be.

hoping there will be extras in english too.

[indisposed]

Originally Posted by beadelf

That is I hope subtitles are not burned onto image...they shouldnt be.

hoping there will be extras in english too.

I wouldn't worry too much about burned subs for the film... however the extras might be a different story. Then again, the extra features or on Youtube for all to see, so that isn't a big deal for me.

[Extra-Terrestrial]

Originally Posted by chip75

It's usually DVD's, our PAL 50hz DVD's run slightly faster (than 24fps film) so 109 minutes of film would translate to 104 (and a bit) of video (which is the cut running time). Wikipedia says the film is 111 minutes(?), which would be 106 in PAL land.

Thanks Chip

Originally Posted by Andrew Woo

And for those still in doubt:



Over 110 min. running time.

Thank you for this information

Originally Posted by beadelf

so what your saying is its uncut?

also will we be able to turn off subtitles ? or are they burned in and are there any extras?

The French releases are more likely to have burnt in subtitles. None of the German releases I own or have owned in the past, have had burnt in subtitles. The menu screen tends to be in English too!

[indisposed]

For what its worth the Koch Media DVD didn't have burned on subtitles. The only thing that bothered me slightly, was that you had to turn on the English track before starting up the film, otherwise it would go straight into the German dub.

[Extra-Terrestrial]

Originally Posted by indisposed

For what its worth the Koch Media DVD didn't have burned on subtitles. The only thing that bothered me slightly, was that you had to turn on the English track before starting up the film, otherwise it would go straight into the German dub.

Some play the trailers etc in German with no English track at all & you have to change the audio track for the main movie. It's like a lucky dip lol!

[beadelf]

Originally Posted by Extra-Terrestrial

Some play the trailers etc in German with no English track at all & you have to change the audio track for the main movie. It's like a lucky dip lol!

oh sounds bad, not my kind of lucky dip not being able to speak german lol. and preffering eveything in its original language

[indisposed]

Originally Posted by beadelf

ive placed my order its very cheap I wonder if there are extras on it?

i also made an order for watership down a little over 10 pound for each film!!!

Originally Posted by beadelf

oh sounds bad, not my kind of lucky dip not being able to speak german lol. and preffering eveything in its original language

I'll remain optimistic about this... not matter how naively I seem at present .

I shall report back on this as soon as I get it (probably the middle of next week).

[beadelf]

Originally Posted by indisposed

I'll remain optimistic about this... not matter how naively I seem at present .

I shall report back on this as soon as I get it (probably the middle of next week).

maybe i should have waited...its too late now, ill be annoyed if i get a film with burned in subtitles.

[Indiana Jones]

The last German BD I bought had non-English friendly startup trailers but the main menu gave the choice of English or German and once set to English you would never know it was not a native English release.

If it were a French release I would be more concerned but I have yet to find a German BD with forced subs.

[madlost1]

According to a member in the German forums there are no burned in sub titles.

Originally Posted by deckard82

OK, took a quick look at it. First of all, no there's no burnt in subs. As a matter of fact the disc contains English subs only and they are of course optional.
As for the PQ. At first I was a little concerned because the first few scenes of the movie are quite scratched and dirty...but then the PQ improves dramatically and the picture actually looks very, very good with plenty of fine grain and a consistantly high bitrate above 30 MBit/sec, at least for as long as I previewed the movie. Nothing looked waxy or anything which would lead me to believe that the movie was not filtered to oblivion.

I won't fully judge this release untill I've watched the movie from start to finish but I'm very pleased with what I've seen so far.

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[indisposed]

Originally Posted by madlost1

According to a member in the German forums there are no burned in sub titles.



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I was just about to post this! Things are looking very good as of now.

My order has already been shipped out from Amazon.de and the delivery estimate is Jan 23, though it might get here earlier than that (weather permitting).

[deckard82]

yeah, just check out the German topic, it's pretty much answer all your questions

But I'll also say it here, the Koch release is absolutely worth it. Believe me, I was the last person to expect a lot but I was pleasantly surprised. Koch seem to have done a really good job this time (the same goes for Videodrome, btw).

[indisposed]

Originally Posted by deckard82

yeah, just check out the German topic, it's pretty much answer all your questions

But I'll also say it here, the Koch release is absolutely worth it. Believe me, I was the last person to expect a lot but I was pleasantly surprised. Koch seem to have done a really good job this time (the same goes for Videodrome, btw).

Just out of curiosity, what are Koch like in general? The only release of theirs that I'm familiar with is the original Howard the Duck DVD. Are there any titles of theirs that I absolutely, positively must skip?

[deckard82]

The Quiet Earth is supposed to be really bad, Futureworld is very hardly an improvement over the DVD and Koch's Scanners BD looks like a bad joke

http://caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleich...ess=#vergleich

(that movie was released by a different label recently on BD though and it looks superb).

Don't really own many titles by them though. 'Super' looks OK, I guess but I did notice some compression probs here and there, no clue if the US BD looks the same or not. And like I said, Videodrome looks great and about the same as the Criterion BD, except for a slight difference in brightness.

also: Howard the Duck only costs 10.99€ on amazon.de right now which is a pretty good deal!

[Sky_Captain]

Their release of The Shadow is horrendous, so colour me cautious.

[Indiana Jones]

Received my copy of Howard the Duck today from Amazon.de

[Extra-Terrestrial]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

Received my copy of Howard the Duck today from Amazon.de

Enjoy!

I received mine yesterday but just glanced through some of the Chapters last night. I will watch it over the weekend.

The Special Features play in English with German subtitles which are removable & the audio automatically plays in English for the Main Movie. The menu screen is in German though!

I'm happy from what i've seen though!

[beadelf]

Originally Posted by Extra-Terrestrial

Enjoy!

I received mine yesterday but just glanced through some of the Chapters last night. I will watch it over the weekend.

The Special Features play in English with German subtitles which are removable & the audio automatically plays in English for the Main Movie. The menu screen is in German though!

I'm happy from what i've seen though!

yes very pleased with the blu! image quality is good

[Ben_UK]

Mine came today.

AVC image, track 1 is German DTS-MA 2.0, track 2 is English DTS-MA 2.0.

On my Sony player it defaulted to the German language track.

The image is rather good. 8 out of 10 material, solid.

[beadelf]

Originally Posted by Ben_UK

Mine came today.

AVC image, track 1 is German DTS-MA 2.0, track 2 is English DTS-MA 2.0.

On my Sony player it defaulted to the German language track.

The image is rather good. 8 out of 10 material, solid.

I got a panosonic it stayed on the english track with mine with subtitles off, I thought i was gona have to change it lol