Blade Runner 3 disc 30th anniversary box set

[Sky_Captain]

Originally Posted by Det. Bullock

Strange, one of those hi-def maniac that has both US and Euro editions (in an Italian forum a few months ago) said it has been re-encoded in AVC when the "original" was VC-1, and a 6 GB difference isn't a bit much for three or four additional lossy dubs when the average bitrate and video file size are the same?

Or are there other dubs on the Euro disc other than German, French, Italian and Spanish that are not mentioned on the back cover?

There were already three dubs other than English in the US disc: French (Quebec), French (standard) and Spanish, that's why I was "worried" as the US disc was used with the old "suitcase" edition in Spain and completely omitted in all other European countries where it came out.

And apart from the encode, being from a mixed Italian and Swiss (German speaking, though only one of my brothers speaks fluently) family I could use the dubs for when one of my brothers might want to see it (and beside that, all my friends speak only italian, so no "collective vision" in case the box set had the US disc).

By the way, I ordered it yesterday, should arrive in a week or so.

Crap, I just realised that you meant the second disc, lol
I know that the workprint version was re-encoded in AVC, but can't say how it relates to the non-US releases, unfortunately.

[Det. Bullock]

Originally Posted by Sky_Captain

Crap, I just realised that you meant the second disc, lol

Yes, some of the dubs are partially different for the DC (due to some lines changing sense in the DC and needing for this a new translation, at least in the Italian dub as my native language can't render certain ambiguities properly) so they had to reprogram the seamless branching and so they also re-encoded the film as they did with the workprint when they merged it with the special features.

Which is good as the Int version is my favourite.

[WernerP]

Would somebody be kind enough to check if discs 2 and 3 also have Dutch subtitles?

[Det. Bullock]

Originally Posted by WernerP

Would somebody be kind enough to check if discs 2 and 3 also have Dutch subtitles?

No, no dutch subtitles, at least in the version I got (the french version), which is strange, it should be the same for all Europe.

[WernerP]

Thanks, Det. Bullock. It wasn't exactly the answer I wanted to hear, but you saved me from a miss - buy.