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Mar 22nd, 2007 04:28 AM #1Deal Guru
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Any Chinese movies in any of the two HD formats?
Have any of the Chinese movie studios especially the ones in HK released any of their movies in either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD yet?
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Mar 22nd, 2007 05:54 AM #2Permanently Banned
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Mar 22nd, 2007 06:01 AM #3Deal Guru
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Does the Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon and Kung Fu Hustle count?
I saw those at Best Buy
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Mar 22nd, 2007 07:24 AM #4Deal Addict
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Mar 22nd, 2007 10:19 AM #5
expect "curse of the golden flower" to come out on blu-ray sometime next week.
but any blu-ray or HD-DVD directly from hong kong? don't expect that to pop up anytime soon.
it's pitiful since people still buy into that vcd crap and some have just finally jumped to the DVD bandwagon._______________
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Mar 22nd, 2007 11:01 AM #6
Even Hong Kong cant take advantage of the HD tvs over there. None of the tv stations broadcast in HD as of yet.
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Mar 22nd, 2007 03:51 PM #7Deal Guru
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I meant releases in the Asian region and not Asian movies released in Region 1 (North America). Originally Posted by Raxel
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Thanks for the information. I'm still surprised that some recent content still appear in VCDs. I thought that format was dead as soon as DVD was released. Originally Posted by tinlunlau
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Mar 22nd, 2007 06:04 PM #10
try ur luck with japanese releases.
alot of asian movies have come out to HD-DVD in japan. however, most of them have no subtitles._______________
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Most have such poor production quality it'd just look worse in an HD format. The higher quality production releases have generally been released in R1. Keep in mind that HD-DVD is region free and Blu-ray has region encoding unfortunately. Originally Posted by Sgt_Strider
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Mar 23rd, 2007 07:30 PM #12
Reminds me of an audio shop salesperson who used Eagles Live (1980) to test their hi-fi.
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Mar 23rd, 2007 07:38 PM #13you do realize that Fortune Star has been remastering alot of old hong kong movies lately, have you? and most of them look really nice on dvd. i work for Joy Sales who are currently the official licensors of Fortune Star's dvd collection and i've seen some of their remasters. and i've seen their remastered dvd's. they look so crisp and vivid that you'd start to think it's a recent movie. i haven't seen much of their work either but Shaw Brothers movies got really nice dvd treatment. i think they are professional enough to maintain a good remastering classics. Originally Posted by badkarma
there isn't much u can say about the new and recent movies as most of them look nice enough on DVD. i know for a fact that Joy Sales even went through the lengths of going all the way to Japan for a good mastering of Jackie Chan's Rob-B-Hood._______________
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No I can't say I have seen any Fortune Star remasters. But it's great to hear that the HK films are raising their transfer quality. Although, looking "nice enough" on DVD won't cut it at HD-DVD/Blu-ray level. What concerns me is the quality of the master print. Look what happened with 5th Element on Blu-ray. Originally Posted by tinlunlau
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Mar 23rd, 2007 10:24 PM #15Deal Guru
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They still release new movies on VCD, what makes you think they'll move on to high definition DVDs?
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