Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[JoeDeM]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

I could be wrong but I took his statement to mean that the BDA should drop the region coding nonsense and I agree wholeheartly. Maybe the future 4K format will be region free but that's probably wishful thinking. Maybe we can reduce it from 3 regions to 2; one for China and another for the rest of the world.

Originally Posted by dsman71

Yeah I thought*they* as in Scream Factory. It would make life easier if everything was Region Free. I know that Warner, Universal and Kino's movies are region free after playing them on my wonderful LG code free player

Yes the BDA and not Scream Factory, it seems that it's so easy to get a region free player that it makes the whole issue irrelevant.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by Frightener22

Just reviewed Cat People and I found it be one of Scream Factory's cleanest transfers. The color palette in the film is really outstanding at times. I personally didn't find the skin tones very waxy at all, but that's just me. Great interviews on the disc as well.

being that you're a big a fan, I'm gonna go with your opinion.... a clean picture with bright vivid colors sounds good to me!!

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by ultlife2013

I'm guessing companies like sf are at the whim of bigger studios and if they don't play ball with them they'll just cut them out. Also they probably signing package deals or first look deals at future movies if they release certain movies or vice versa they might be forced to release some movies even if they don't want them to secure rights to ones they want. This is all back door meeting stuff that we will never really know about but kind of fascinating to think about.

/end rambling

Unfortunately, you're probably right about them being at the whim of the major studios. Even TT has been affected by this kind of negotiation as seen in the HTF's interview with Nick Redman a few years ago.

Originally Posted by Nick Redman

Well, that's a good question. With Fox we submitted a long list, a list that was 200 films long. And the list gets whittled down because Fox will say something like “that film is this particular senior executive’s favorite movie and he would love it if the studio would put it out”. So we take that off the list. Now, we know that they probably won’t ever do anything with that title [laughs] and then we can go back to them in a couple of years and ask for that title. But that's how our list got whittled down to about 100 titles that had not ever been on DVD in the United States. It was basically a list of our favorite films, films that we knew and liked or films that we had always wanted to see on DVD or ones that we thought catalogue collectors would like. It was a real mishmash, a real potpourri of things. It was dangerous to do it that way because when they finally approved our list of 100, we then found out that quite a few of those titles were only available as 4x3 letterbox masters, not 16x9 enhanced. We released Violent Saturday in 4x3 as a test, but consumer response indicated that if a title wasn't in 16x9 it wasn't acceptable. So those titles have to go on the back burner until we figure out what to do.

[deadhatetheliving]

Really hating all the b****ing going on in this thread. Whatever happened to forming ones own opinion about a movie and not letting your reasoning behind buying or not buying a movie be based on someone else's opinion.

[noddinoff]

So you think people should throw down their hard earned money for a potentially crappy looking blu ray without first checking out some reviews of the disc just because it bothers you? Is it your money that they are spending? I thought not so you really have no right to cry about it.

[deadhatetheliving]

Originally Posted by noddinoff

So you think people should throw down their hard earned money for a potentially crappy looking blu ray without first checking out some reviews of the disc just because it bothers you? Is it your money that they are spending? I thought not so you really have no right to cry about it.

Key word potentially...you don't know for yourself if it is or not. You're taking someone else's opinion without really knowing for yourself.

[ultlife2013]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

Unfortunately, you're probably right about them being at the whim of the major studios. Even TT has been affected by this kind of negotiation as seen in the HTF's interview with Nick Redman a few years ago.

Thanks for that quote, that sucks to have to sit on movies that are basically burning a hole in your pocket.

[Donl1282]

Sorry if this has been discussed before but how likely will we see Dolls (Stuart Gordon 1987) released in North America on blu ray? It has been released in Japan on blu ray already and it's coming to UK this month too. I would import the Japanese release but it's too expensive.

[Kap6289]

Originally Posted by Donl1282

Sorry if this has been discussed before but how likely will we see Dolls (Stuart Gordon 1987) released in North America on blu ray? It has been released in Japan on blu ray already and it's coming to UK this month too. I would import the Japanese release but it's too expensive.

I would love to know this, too. That movie is awesome.

[shredking9000]

Originally Posted by Donl1282

Sorry if this has been discussed before but how likely will we see Dolls (Stuart Gordon 1987) released in North America on blu ray? It has been released in Japan on blu ray already and it's coming to UK this month too. I would import the Japanese release but it's too expensive.

It's been shot down repeatedly by SF. It's one of my favorite movies, so after a few months I ended up getting the Japanese release. At this point, I wouldn't get a US release unless the extras were something special.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

Uh, are we talking about the same transfer?

Good lord, if that's what they're trying to sell, I'm canceling my pre-order.

[themoviefanatic]

Is Dolls better then Dolly Dearest?

[MovieManiac82]

Originally Posted by Slikkbradd

Is Dolls better then Dolly Dearest?

Hell Yes!!!. Dolly Dearest sucks.

[redrunner97]

I thought Dolls was better than Dolly Dearest.
That being said, I enjoyed both.

[criterion662]

I, for one, am definitely picking up Cat People.
My top Scream Factory release I got this year was The Vincent Price Collection. Really hoping for a volume 2 of this.

And yes, Dolls would be a day one buy if they ever put it out. It's a really under-rated film.

[Ill_Be_Back]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

Uh, are we talking about the same transfer?

It will likely get 3.5/4 out of 5 on this site anyway. Yeah, it's pretty bad.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by deadhatetheliving

Key word potentially...you don't know for yourself if it is or not. You're taking someone else's opinion without really knowing for yourself.

No, we're examining dozens of uncompressed, 1080p screencaps that clearly and completely support the specific criticisms of multiple professional reviewers.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by Donl1282

Sorry if this has been discussed before but how likely will we see Dolls (Stuart Gordon 1987) released in North America on blu ray? It has been released in Japan on blu ray already and it's coming to UK this month too. I would import the Japanese release but it's too expensive.

Has there still been no official confirmation from 101 Films on the region-coding and/or extras for Dolls (they did confirm a director's commentary)? I didn't see anything recent on their Facebook page, and they never responded to my email.

[Spooked]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

Has there still been no official confirmation from 101 Films on the region-coding and/or extras for Dolls (they did confirm a director's commentary)? I didn't see anything recent on their Facebook page, and they never responded to my email.

In the Dolls thread, someone asked on Facebook if the release would be region locked, and the response was 'most likely'. So, doesn't look too good I'm afraid. If 88 films can do region-free, why can't 101? (I know if probably involves tape, but it's annoying.)

[JoeDeM]

Originally Posted by criterion662

I, for one, am definitely picking up Cat People.
My top Scream Factory release I got this year was The Vincent Price Collection. Really hoping for a volume 2 of this.

I'm really hoping for this as well.