http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/92/19292.php

I did some searching on the Home Media Magazine site that they sourced for this news, but couldn't find the article. If it's true I will definitely double dip and get the BD as I really enjoyed the film.

That would be cool, Ive been wanting to see this for a while.

It's going to be on HD-DVD. No news yet about the BD version, even though it has a US distribution deal with Magnolia Home Entertainment, which had released titles on both formats before.

Interesting movie. Interesting ending.


fuad

Yeah, it appeared on the print magazine last week.

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/questex/hom042207/index.php?startpage=16

News got first posted on the HD DVD Blog which obviously ignored Blu-ray. highdefdigest went with that but they didn't do any more research and thought it was announced only on HD DVD.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=445

Wolfie

I'm curious as to what we can expect audio-wise.

It showed up on Amazon yesterday...

Cool, just ordered!

Yeah, it appeared on the print magazine last week.
Thanks Grubert. :D


fuad

It showed up on Amazon yesterday with that date, so its probably correct.
Thanks, was going to order but then I noticed that it doesn't qualify for free shipping on its own so I'll wait and see what other deals become available.

Anyone know if this version is trimmed down like most other asian films?

I wouldn't think Mark Cuban would want to be associated with editing a film like Disney or Miramax/Weinstein Co. He does seem to like being a maverick in any field he chooses to explore.

Now all he needs to do is go high resolution lossless on his Blu-ray discs!

I wouldn't think Mark Cuban would want to be associated with editing a film like Disney or Miramax/Weinstein Co. He does seem to like being a maverick in any field he chooses to explore.

Now all he needs to do is go high resolution lossless on his Blu-ray discs!

thank you for the input :)

missed this one in theaters. will definently have to pick this up.
Anyone know which audio is on what format. haven't bought a magnolia release yet, but I loved lord of war(might pick that up if it has PCM)

Anyone know which audio is on what format. haven't bought a magnolia release yet, but I loved lord of war(might pick that up if it has PCM)

Lord of War is Lionsgate, not Magnolia.

The only Magnolia disc I have is Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which has DD 5.1 and DTS 5.1.

From Thedigitalbits, this would suck if true and keep me from buying:

Okay, now for some disc announcements: First up today, Magnolia Home Entertainment has revealed that they plan to release director Bong Joon-Ho's wonderfully creepy The Host on DVD on 7/24. You can read Adam's review of the film in this installment of his Electric Theatre, and it's every bit as good as he says. The DVD will be available in two versions - a standard edition (SRP $26.98) featuring the film in anamorphic widescreen video with audio commentary by the director, and a 2-disc collector's edition ($29.98) that adds deleted scenes, storyboards, casting video, a gag reel, 7 featurettes (The Making of the Host, Designing the Creature, Puppet Animatronix, Memories of the Sewer, The Film Departments, Special Effects and Sound Effects and Training the Actors) and more. Better news still: the collector's edition will also be available in both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD formats the same day (SRP $34.98 each). The only thing we're a little concerned about is that there are some indications that the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is English dubbed, rather than the original Korean with English subtitles. That would suck, but we'll see if we can clarify this.

Then again perhaps the DD track will be English so the Korean track can be PCM :D

My copy shipped yesterday. :D

My copy shipped yesterday. :D

Let us know what you think!

watched this on dvd, the hd version should look and sound great with or w/o lossless.

pretty decent movie and a great way to spend a couple of hours with friends/family.

The disc has Korean PCM 5.1, Korean DD, Korean DTS, English PCM 5.1 , English DD and English DTS. Picture looks pretty good.

The disc has Korean PCM 5.1, Korean DD, Korean DTS, English PCM 5.1 , English DD and English DTS. Picture looks pretty good.

Can you give us some shots of the case?

pretty decent movie and a great way to spend a couple of hours with friends/family.

That scene where the family is crying at a funeral is sad at first then absolutely hilarious. Now I have family members who've acted that way before, but they're all on my wife's side of the family. (RE: asian decent)

I watched the movie later with my brother and sister in law and had to give them a brief cultural education on what to expect because the first time I watched it with a group of friends they were looking like they didn't know if it was proper to be laughing at these people. Korean cinema is a different flavor than what some people are used to.

I'm curious as to what we can expect audio-wise.

So far every HD DVD release from Magnolia with the exception of Bubble has been in Dolby TrueHD, while the BD releases being limited to DTS-HD.

My fear is that the subtitles on the Korean soundtrack will be done for people that are hard of hearing like District B13. The subtitles for that release weren't standard and included all the information for noises and such. Annoying as hell if you ask me.

Here it is from my crappy cell camera. By the way the HD DVD does have Dolby True instead of PCM

Here it is from my crappy cell camera. By the way the HD DVD does have Dolby True instead of PCM
Are the English subtitles for the hard of hearing?

Also, I bought the HD DVD version. Do you happen to know if the Korean track is in TrueHD, and not just the English dub track?

The disc has Eng subs , Eng SDH and spanish subs.

Here it is from my crappy cell camera. By the way the HD DVD does have Dolby True instead of PCM


Thanks!! I just ordered the BD from Amazon. Watched the trailer for it online, looks very intriguing.

Here it is from my crappy cell camera. By the way the HD DVD does have Dolby True instead of PCM

Thanks PDB,

Have you seen this on DVD also?

If so, how much improvement is there?

I had the Korean DVD but I got rid of it when the HD was announced. From my memory, it is a definite improvement.

Here it is from my crappy cell camera. By the way the HD DVD does have Dolby True instead of PCM
I received the HD DVD version. The HD DVD version got the shaft and only has DTS-HD HR sound tracks.

Thankfully, my disc arrived damaged and DVD Pacific is allowing me to exchange the damaged HD DVD for the Blu-Ray version of the movie. I was at first upset by the damaged disc, but it allowed me to correct my mistake and get the superior version.

I was so busy whining about my negative experience that I forgot to mention this transfer's video quality.

I haven't seen this movie before checking out the HD DVD, so I have no frame of reference in how it is supposed to look. Furthermore, I only checked out a few scenes. The image is extremely crisp with a rather significant grain structure. Blacks are very deep and the colors have a "pumped-up" look to them. It looks as if edge enhancement was used a bit, as I noticed some edge halos and the overall image appeared a bit over-sharpened.

If there was one movie that I would liken this transfer's picture quality to, it would probably have to be Crank.

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Sd release was upscaled to 1080p, the hd version was the blu-ray disc running on a PS3.

This is the first time that I purchased a Blu-ray version of a release over HD DVD. HD DVD version does not have lossless audio option whereas Blu-ray version does. I canceled my Amazon preorder for HD DVD and got the Blu-ray version instead. I tend to buy HD DVD over Blu-ray whenever possible, but it seems the studio gave an unfair advantage to Blu-ray this time.

This is the first time that I purchased a Blu-ray version of a release over HD DVD. HD DVD version does not have lossless audio option whereas Blu-ray version does. I canceled my Amazon preorder for HD DVD and got the Blu-ray version instead. I tend to buy HD DVD over Blu-ray whenever possible, but it seems the studio gave an unfair advantage to Blu-ray this time.Is it unfair of a studio to take advantage of the extra space available on a BD that's not available on a HD? Besides, HD can't even do PCM, so why complain?

Is it unfair of a studio to take advantage of the extra space available on a BD that's not available on a HD? Besides, HD can't even do PCM, so why complain?

LOL, no kidding. :)

Is it unfair of a studio to take advantage of the extra space available on a BD that's not available on a HD? Besides, HD can't even do PCM, so why complain?
More Blu-tainted misinformation.

I would be willing to bet that this had nothing to do with space or bitrate limitations. HD DVD can also do PCM, but most releases with lossless audio chooses to include TrueHD or dts MA over inefficient PCM.

More Blu-tainted misinformation.

I would be willing to bet that this had nothing to do with space or bitrate limitations. HD DVD can also do PCM, but most releases with lossless audio chooses to include TrueHD or dts MA over inefficient PCM.Really? My mistake then. Could you name a HD title that uses LPCM?

Really? My mistake then. Could you name a HD title that uses LPCM?

http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/eagles_liveinmelbourne.html

http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/eagles_liveinmelbourne.html

azht, that's a 2.0 uncompressed audio...

So just 1 HD title uses LPCM and it's stereo and you're acusing me for passing "misinformation"? Sheesh. Talk about the pot meeting the kettle...

If you look at the specs for The Host it has actually 2 lossless tracks, the original Korean and an English dub. Personally I don't know what you're complaining about, the HD version still has both DTS-HD tracks.

I don't think that I was complaining. I was just stating that Magnolia gave an advantage to the Blu-ray this time around.

Also can't is quite different from not being able to. When TrueHD can be decoded by all your players, there is no reason to do LPCM for lossless.

"unfair advantage" sure sounds like a complaint to me. Why do you care anyway, you're "neutral".

Can somebody actually comment on the movie itself?

Can somebody actually comment on the movie itself?

i really enjoyed it, and that was from a DVD experience, i'm sure the BD is much better as can be seen in the pictures and add on lossless audio.

I don't think that I was complaining. I was just stating that Magnolia gave an advantage to the Blu-ray this time around.

Also can't is quite different from not being able to. When TrueHD can be decoded by all your players, there is no reason to do LPCM for lossless.

when LPCM doesnt need to be decoded by any of your players and can simply be sent to the receiver untouched, and there's plenty of room for multiple such tracks, there is no reason to do Dolby TrueHD for lossless.

magnolia gave the advantage to blu-ray b/c it was able to. what if the video encode plus extras came to 25+ gb's and adding lossless audio to hd-dvd would exceed the 30gb capacity but only take up a little over 3/5 of the BD's capacity? what appears to be true here is Magnolia may be doin the opposite of Warner, they encode for blu-ray and remove stuff to fit on hd-dvd instead of encoding for hd-dvd and leave a bunch of space on the disc.

however, if the bd version turns out to be BD25, then i'd be very wrong.

The screencaps aren't a good representation of what to expect. I found the pic quality a marked improvement over the SD-DVD when switching between the two versions. The audio when the creature makes its first appearance is demo material IMO. :D