up for sale at sendit .com
the UK.$32

Greatest film of all time. I might have to buy an HD-DVD player just for this movie.

I am going to wait for reviews....there are quite a few lousy masters of this movie floating around in its DVD incarnations and I will want to make sure they've done this right for HD.

Studio Canal acquired Optimum and their release tied with the Criterion disc in this review (http://www.new.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare2/ran.htm), so I'm expecting a great presentation. But according to this post (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=9356544&&#post9356544) the release will not have english subtitles. That might be a deal-breaker for me. Has anyone heard more about this issue?

On the German equivalent of imdb is an entry about the HD-DVD which shows all subtitles to be featured on it.
The German special edition DVD of Ran, for instance, featured both, English audio and subtitles.
The HD-DVD features none of the above.

Here is a link, but it's only German:
http://www.ofdb.de/view.php?page=fassung_vorab&fid=12004&vid=6089

Translated excerpt:

Tonformat: (audio formats)
Deutsch (DTS-HD 2.0) (German)
Französisch (DTS-HD 5.1) (French)
Japanisch (DTS-HD 5.1) (Japanese)

Untertitel: (<- subtitles)
Deutsch (German)
Dänisch (Danish)
Finnisch (Finnish)
Französisch (French)
Niederländisch (Dutch)
Norwegisch (Norwegian)
Schwedisch (Swedish)

Making a post to hit 5. Sorry for this, I want to post a url next... :)

I found this post on DVD Talk so take it for what it worth:

..."As to Ran...Studio Canal will be introducing an English-friendly release through their new British offshoot Optimum this summer."

Link to the post is here: DVD Talk Post (http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=488577)

I have one of the crappy transfer DVD's of Ran (can't remember which studio) , so I hope to pick up the HD DVD when it is released.

up for sale at sendit .com
the UK.$32
turns out its not in stock yet.

Sendit .com is an UK outfit so I assumed there would be english subtitles.
Guess I'll cancel

http://www.sendit.com/video/item/7001000131526

It's by Optimum so maybe it will have English subs

I am going to wait for reviews....there are quite a few lousy masters of this movie floating around in its DVD incarnations and I will want to make sure they've done this right for HD.
Clips of Ran can be seen in the opening trailer that plays on Studio Canal HD-DVDs. It looks fantastic, so I'm expecting great things, but still, we won't know for sure until the actual disk is released.

WHAT Reading this article has made my day! I think I just failed my Math final exam so this is great news.

I hope it is indeed from the same master of the Criterion release, because that release was excellent. I have the other two R1 DVD releases and they are terrible.

Dear Gerry,

We have decided not to release this title for technical reasons.

Here is a link to our old and upcoming HD releases:

http://www.optimumdvdstore.com/search.php?g=&q=hd

Thanks for your query and we apologize if this is causing any inconvenience.

Regards.



Emilie Barra

DVD Assistant





Optimum Releasing

22 Newman Street

London
crap,really wanted that title