"Bootleg" Releases -Spain

[levcore]

Originally Posted by SymbioticFunction

Got fed up waiting on Spanish Amazon so cancelled order of Young Sherlock Holmes and bought through a seller on UK Amazon. It did cost considerably more but at least it was dispatched yesterday.

Have you got it yet? Still not in stock on Amazon Spain and one copy left for the seller on Amazon UK, i really don't want to pay like £25 for this but if it doesn't come back in stock....

[Fury Road]

Originally Posted by Fury Road

Is Breakout (1997) the same transfer as the recent Blu-Rays from Australia, France and the US?

Looked a little soft and DNRed to me, like an older transfer. Could be the same transfer though ... it's remastered by Paramount after all.

oops I meant to write Breakdown with Kurt Russel not Breakout.

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by levcore

Have you got it yet? Still not in stock on Amazon Spain and one copy left for the seller on Amazon UK, i really don't want to pay like £25 for this but if it doesn't come back in stock....

Still waiting. Estimated delivery was 21-28 May so I'm not panicking yet. I will say, considering that the Spanish seller on Amazon UK was/is charging around six quid for delivery, those estimates are a bit of a piss take imo. Hopefully arrives soon. Last time I looked on ebay, there were copies also available there but at the time, those were around thirty quid hence choosing the Amazon UK option.

[agenda]

Originally Posted by agenda

Could somebody please tell me what source Resen is using with their release of THE KINDRED? Is that direct rip from Synapse Films release or some scan from the stone age or what? Synapse is way too expensive, so I would like to know if there's any potential in this release.

Anyone...??

[marblearch]

Got the bootleg Diabolique 1996 blu ray. It's ok, better than the Mill Creek release which would not be difficult. Interiors look good. Deeper colour saturation, but struggles with outdoor and night shots. Audio is decent and is in 5 channel. On my disc there are a few seconds of juddering movement at the scene where the video team are setting up the camera for the pictures outside the front of the school.
If like me and you are a fan youv'e probably bought the crappy Mill Creek release, imperfect as it is this bootleg version is better.

[Region_unlocked]

Originally Posted by agenda

Anyone...??

I don't own it, but Resen usually takes the path of least resistance. If they can just pull from an existing release they will. The synapse release came out about a year prior to theirs, so the writing's on the wall.

[agenda]

Originally Posted by Region_unlocked

I don't own it, but Resen usually takes the path of least resistance. If they can just pull from an existing release they will. The synapse release came out about a year prior to theirs, so the writing's on the wall.

My thoughts exactly, but I need to be sure or at least to know that is the PQ decent compared to Synapse disc if not exact the very same.

[gretzky2010]

Originally Posted by Region_unlocked

I don't own it, but Resen usually takes the path of least resistance. If they can just pull from an existing release they will. The synapse release came out about a year prior to theirs, so the writing's on the wall.

it's not always the case today they rip more and more from amazon video so they go the cheap way

[SymbioticFunction]

Young Sherlock Holmes is a pressed disc and PQ is good. Slightly soft perhaps but still more than decent. I'm sure it's identical to the hd version you can buy on Amazon (which I did purchase a couple of years back). I'm also sure that if Paramount were to release an official blu-ray, it would look exactly the same (Funeral In Berlin, The Two Jakes).

The 56 minute documentary extra is presented by Christopher Lee and I'm certain that I also have it on Arrow's Hound of the Baskervilles blu-ray. My wife and I are watching this Spanish disc tomorrow afternoon and later on that day, I'll leave a very short additional post just to confirm that it played okay.

Shame Amazon Spain never got stock, meant I ended up paying substantially more to get hold of a copy.

[Filmmaker]

Bought it just now based on your observations, thanks!

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Bought it just now based on your observations, thanks!

As long as it plays okay tomorrow afternoon, I'm sure it's a safe purchase. Another example of Paramount just using the Amazon hd stream for a blu-ray could have been Heaven Can Wait (which I previously bought streaming from Amazon and then an official German Paramount bd). With great interest, I also recently read a user review of the new Paramount Top Secret blu-ray, where they said that it was pretty much the same as the Australian bd (which I own). I just don't see Paramount putting out a fresh Young Sherlock Holmes hd transfer when a serviceable one is already available. That is, if they ever release it at all.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by SymbioticFunction

As long as it plays okay tomorrow afternoon, I'm sure it's a safe purchase. Another example of Paramount just using the Amazon hd stream for a blu-ray could have been Heaven Can Wait (which I previously bought streaming from Amazon and then an official German Paramount bd). With great interest, I also recently read a user review of the new Paramount Top Secret blu-ray, where they said that it was pretty much the same as the Australian bd (which I own). I just don't see Paramount putting out a fresh Young Sherlock Holmes hd transfer when a serviceable one is already available. That is, if they ever release it at all.

My only worry is we’ll soon see it on 4K as part of the new Kino/Paramount deal, but I’ll cross that bridge if and when it comes.

[SymbioticFunction]

Watched all of the Young Sherlock Holmes bd today, played just fine, zero problems. Quite a fair share of the image is a bit soft. If I had to award a PQ score, I would probably choose 3.5/5. Would still recommend this disc to fans.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by SymbioticFunction

Watched all of the Young Sherlock Holmes bd today, played just fine, zero problems. Quite a fair share of the image is a bit soft. If I had to award a PQ score, I would probably choose 3.5/5. Would still recommend this disc to fans.

Surely at its worst it still murders the DVD at its best.

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Surely at its worst it still murders the DVD at its best.

Oh definitely, very much so.

[Fury Road]

Originally Posted by Fury Road

Is Breakdown (1997) the same transfer as the recent Blu-Rays from Australia, France and the US?

Anyone ???

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by SymbioticFunction

Oh definitely, very much so.

Except now that I have it in hand, I’ve discovered the fly in the ointment—it advertises English subtitles but appears to not feature them (from what I can tell, selecting them from the menu merely causes the Spanish subs to play exactly as if I’d selected Spanish subs proper). Shit. Still a keeper but that totally sucks.

[SymbioticFunction]

Why do you want English subtitles? I'm just curious.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by SymbioticFunction

Why do you want English subtitles? I'm just curious.

Sometimes helps when words are unclear (especially when accents are heavy). Also convenient when the family is asleep. No biggie—I downloaded the right subs from subscene.com, which my Oppo can display. But it’s definitely a disc error.

[SpaceBlackKnight]

The Kindered is a recompressed crappy 1080p rip of the Synapse BD on a BD-25.