Blind Fury / Silent Rage / White Line Fever (1975-1989)

[Brad1963]

I bought it at Fry's today for $6.99. Just put it on to check out the PQ. The one film I thought would look the worst looks the best. That is White Line Fever. Blind Fury PQ not so hot. Silent Rage from what I saw look decent enough. For $7.00 I am not to complain.

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by Patsfan123

They all have English SDH. Nothing else.

Cool...seems that Mill Creek is now including English subs in all their new releases .

[ravenus]

Why does Mill Creek (or VCI) use MPEG-2 for BD encoding? Is it cheaper to license or simpler to use than AVC or even VC-1?

[darkkrisp]

Does anyone know if Amazon will do a pricematch against itself? I had this preordered awhile back, and it was $11 something and it was delivered Tuesday. Now it's at $7.79. It's not much but it sure was nice when Best Buy refunded me the difference when I bought the Phantasm Collection in store and they dropped the price $20 within their return window.

[ravenus]

^They don't have to, but they might if you ask them nice. Try your luck

[Patsfan123]

Originally Posted by darkkrisp

Does anyone know if Amazon will do a pricematch against itself? I had this preordered awhile back, and it was $11 something and it was delivered Tuesday. Now it's at $7.79. It's not much but it sure was nice when Best Buy refunded me the difference when I bought the Phantasm Collection in store and they dropped the price $20 within their return window.

This is against policy now. You'd have to return and rebuy

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

[darkkrisp]

Originally Posted by Patsfan123

This is against policy now. You'd have to return and rebuy

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

Thanks, the price difference isn't significant enough for me to bother.

[Freeza]

Originally Posted by darkkrisp

Does anyone know if Amazon will do a pricematch against itself? I had this preordered awhile back, and it was $11 something and it was delivered Tuesday. Now it's at $7.79. It's not much but it sure was nice when Best Buy refunded me the difference when I bought the Phantasm Collection in store and they dropped the price $20 within their return window.

Amazon has a pre-order price match guarantee, and this title sat at $8.29 for a while until release so (assuming you ordered before then) you should get/have gotten a few bucks back automatically.

"Pre-order Price Guarantee! Order now and if the Amazon.com price decreases between your order time and the end of the day of the release date, you'll receive the lowest price."

[DaBargainHunta]

Got a price-drop alert on this from CamelCamelCamel and it's already back up to $11 - annoying!

Oh well, this is future $7.88 bin fodder or even $5 shelf fodder, so no harm in waiting.

[Brutimus]

Sorry if this has been answered, but how does Blind Fury's picture quality compare to the Australian release? Thanks!

[Stanis]

Yeah I'm waiting for $5, Mill Creek will go there. Or at least until theres a comprehensive review with screenshots

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by darkkrisp

Does anyone know if Amazon will do a pricematch against itself? I had this preordered awhile back, and it was $11 something and it was delivered Tuesday. Now it's at $7.79. It's not much but it sure was nice when Best Buy refunded me the difference when I bought the Phantasm Collection in store and they dropped the price $20 within their return window.

They match up to release day, which is passed. However I pre-ordered it and got a final price of only $8-something, and I ain't stressin' over a dollar.

[Patsfan123]

Originally Posted by Brutimus

Sorry if this has been answered, but how does Blind Fury's picture quality compare to the Australian release? Thanks!

Reports are the AU release has pretty poor PQ that is DNR'ed then EE'd but the audio is lossless. The US PQ looks to be untouched but still an older scan. It's Dolby Digital 2.0 at 384kbps.

[Brutimus]

Originally Posted by Patsfan123

Reports are the AU release has pretty poor PQ that is DNR'ed then EE'd but the audio is lossless. The US PQ looks to be untouched but still an older scan. It's Dolby Digital 2.0 at 384kbps.

Thanks so much.

So, for my money, being in the US and this release being so cheap, this seems to be the better option.

[jebhdb]

Barnes and Noble has this for $8.15. I used a 20% off coupon and it came out to $7.06. Not a bad deal for members who get free shipping.

[CelluloidPal]

I just got finished going through the blu-ray and the PQ looks fine to me.
Not razor sharp but the images looked clear to me with film grain visible but not distracting.

[slasherdisc]

I'll take it for $7.79 at Amazon, Just ordered!

[Member-222782]

I can't help but wonder how much better off these Sony titles would've been with Shout Factory if people weren't such sticklers for extras. Most of these films don't need extras and many, like The Naked Cage, have practically nothing and are perfectly serviceable. Sony typically provides excellent HD masters that would benefit from having plenty of breathing room on disc, plus I'm pretty sure Sony would at least give SF access to trailers. If SF can't get Paramount stuff my thinking is they should go for second best and make a deal with Sony, even if the studio doesn't have that large of a cult library.

[Gargus]

Originally Posted by cine74

I can't help but wonder how much better off these Sony titles would've been with Shout Factory if people weren't such sticklers for extras. Most of these films don't need extras and many, like The Naked Cage, have practically nothing and are perfectly serviceable. Sony typically provides excellent HD masters that would benefit from having plenty of breathing room on disc, plus I'm pretty sure Sony would at least give SF access to trailers. If SF can't get Paramount stuff my thinking is they should go for second best and make a deal with Sony, even if the studio doesn't have that large of a cult library.

Personally I dont give a shit about extras. I mean I like to watch them on movies that are personal favorites I grew up watching as a kid but even that isnt real important to me.

I buy a movie for the movie, not the extras. All I want is for the movie I want to own is to have good (not even amazing or that pretentious sounding "definitive") picture and good sound. I dont need the director and sound director to come back and do some painstakingly long process of mastering it from the original negatives to meet the snooty expectations of some discerning videophile. I want it to look good and sound good, thats pretty much it.

By not having to jam pack a blu ray with all kinds of extras means the movie comes out sooner which means I can see it sooner and then they can move onto the next blu ray and release it sooner. It also means the blu ray will be cheaper because they didnt have to go and film new material or license old material. The less expensive the movie is the more movies I can buy. Suspiria, Id rather they didnt spend a year or two doing new bonus stuff and this anal restoration which means I have to wait a long time and pay a lot more.

[xander]

Originally Posted by slasherdisc

I'll take it for $7.79 at Amazon, Just ordered!

Nice. Got my shipping email last night, and my refund email for the price drop this morning. I'll take it!