Ted

[sukraj]

Originally Posted by Adam-93

im hoping to get it for christmas, i love this film, big fan of Seth McFarlane's work

I'll probably get it before xmas too.

[lemonhead118]

Getting the Steelie for Christmas

[DJJez]

went in to my local hmv to check if there were any teds with slips and they must of had well over 100 blu rays and not 1 of them had a slipcover

[FilmBox32]

What’s the difference between the original releases by Universal and re-releases by Fabulous Films? The original one only has 1 disc, but Fabulous Films has 2 discs.

[LeSamourai.]

I'd like to know, too.

[LeSamourai.]

I e-mailed Fabulous Films and asked them about their release- I received this reply:

"One version of each on the discs
Extended Version Runtime 112mins approx
Theatrical Version Runtime 106 mins approx
Bonus Runtime 63mins approx

The film content and bonus content is the same".

[darrellmaclaine]

The original versions get everything onto one disc each via branching. That is such a bizarre downgrade!

[dvdboy]

I imagine either the materials weren't supplied 'ready for branch encoding' or the facility that Fabulous Films used were unable to do branch encoding / authoring.

It might also be a cost issue, as historically Studios had much higher budgets for disc authoring than smaller UK / Boutique labels. Are the Fabulous Films discs English only, or do they contain all of the dub and subtitle languages of the original Universal releases?

[darrellmaclaine]

Originally Posted by dvdboy

I imagine either the materials weren't supplied 'ready for branch encoding' or the facility that Fabulous Films used were unable to do branch encoding / authoring.

It might also be a cost issue, as historically Studios had much higher budgets for disc authoring than smaller UK / Boutique labels. Are the Fabulous Films discs English only, or do they contain all of the dub and subtitle languages of the original Universal releases?

The strange thing about this is Fabulous usually reuse the original encoding and disc structure for Universal stuff wherever it already exists, only adding their own ident to the beginning.

[dvdboy]

Originally Posted by darrellmaclaine

The strange thing about this is Fabulous usually reuse the original encoding and disc structure for Universal stuff wherever it already exists, only adding their own ident to the beginning.

Hmm, that's very strange. I assume they normally just pay a fee to the original authoring facility to restore the project and swap out the logo if everything else is the same. Perhaps in this case the original authoring archive couldn't be found, so the disc(s) were rebuilt from scratch, and it was cheaper to do two discs with a straight feature on each, rather than rebuild the seamless branching authoring.

I just assume that Universal provided Studio Master files for their films, for Fabulous to author using their local facility. I think Universal historically used Deluxe.