Blu-ray Imports (General discussion, announcements and retailers) - Page 2

HD DVD review is out here. You can assume that the Blu-ray will look and sound identical.

http://www.hddvdreviews.ch/reviews/j...dvd-review.htm
http://www.dvd-palace.de/dvd-review-r5t2365.htm

Sorry, a noob question. There's no region coding with Blu-rays? I have a friend who's coming from London and owns a PS3. He didn't know if he could buy here to use at home?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#Region_codes

Some Blu-ray Discs are region coded, check http://bluray.liesinc.net/ to see if your friend will be able to play the discs he buys during his visit on his Region B (Europe) PS3.

Thanks SneakerPimp!

http://www.blurayreviews.ch/reviews/...ray-review.htm

+ Positive:
-- Through Pleasure solid, very natural looking image which was hardly altered.
-- Especially close-ups offer a good value sharpness.
-- Generally good contrast, only a few scenes weaknesses.
-- Negative:
-- Image is partly to soft. Especially the shots suffer most under a slight fuzziness.
-- Basically too dark picture. Details will be lost.
-- Continuously are dirt particles can be seen, sometimes quite striking.

Anyone know where I can import [Rec] (if it's even region free)? I heard it's coming out in May on Blu-ray.

http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?n...icle&sid=14574

I've been anxiously waiting to see [Rec].

oh man your in for a treat REC is really good

Thanks for the links, but alas, I cannot read German

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...9#post13612479

translate.google.com is your friend.

Bone Collector has been added for France.

anyone know if optimum home entertainment is region free? they're releasing a couple horror movies soon (diary of the dead, all the boys love mandy lane, storm warning, new dario argento movie) and weinstein owns the rights in the US which means they'll probably never show up

edit: seems their other releases so far have been region locked, oh well

UK releases:

August 11, 2008 Disney will release The Sixth Sense.

Warner has scheduled How The West Was Won for release on September 29th.

Check out what's up for pre-order

http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00189AYJY

Studio: Concorde Video
Release Date : Oct-01-2008

Would make sense, the film was probably sold to a number of different distributors overseas like the Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, etc.

I just got in "5 Centimeters Per Second" and "The Place Promised in Our Early Days" ComixWave BlueRay versions from Amazon Japan.The quality on both of them is nothign short of SPECTACULAR.I ordered them on Sunday, they arrived Wednesday.Only cost me $84 with Fedex internation Express shipping.

Coming soon from Mega Star:

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20080425/wds.htm

release date 8/06/2008

新版 イノセンス アブソリュート・エディション (Innocence Absolute Ed) 片面2層
MPEG-4 AVC
本編約99分 1080p
(1)日本語(ドルビーTrueHD 6.1ch)
(2)日本語(DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1ch)
(3)日本語(ドルビーデジタルEX 6.1ch)
(4)日本語(DTS-ES 6.1ch) VWBS-1050 6,090円

旧版 イノセンス (Innocence) 片面2層
MPEG-2
本編約99分 1080p
(1)日本語(リニアPCM 7.1ch)
(2)日本語(ドルビーデジタルEX)
(3)日本語(DTS-ES)
(4)日本語(ドルビーデジタル5.1ch) VWBS-1013 8,190円

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Impressions:

-At least Buenavista Japan were kind enough to lower the msrp...a bit...

-I'll leave it to the capable AVS members to tell us what extra goodies were included in the new edition

-although TrueHD and DTS MA were in 6.1ch instead of the LPCM 7.1ch,
this should potentially be a really good head-to-head-to-head comparison of all three HD audio formats, providing if they have use similar word lengths

-here is hoping that Bandai USA can take some of the encodes from this version in the US BD release...

in Germany:

The French film The Fox and the Child being released by Kinowelt Home Entertainment on July 11th.

In France:

Les Bronzes get a release in a standard edition on July 2nd.
The Rolling Stones concert The Biggest Bang will be released on Blu-ray May 26th.
Due to Warner owning the rights in Europe, there will also be a French release of Sweeney Todd.

hope soon means before the end of the year.

i still know what you did last summer and urban legend july 21st sony uk

http://www.cinefacts.de/news/news.php?newsid=11705

Kinowelt is going to release various Blu-ray titles in Q4, including some that are already available on HD DVD (in Europe), but also many that are available neither on HD DVD nor Blu-ray (worldwide). Here's the list:

- Basic Instinct
- Cliffhanger
- The Constant Gardener
- Dances with Wolves
- The Deer Hunter
- Fight Club
- Leon
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- Rambo - First Blood
- The Fog [1980]
- Total Recall

I'm very curious about that. Let's hope the best.

I never would've thought these would be the first HD Wong Kar-Wai releases, but I'm really looking forward to "As Tears Go By" and "Days of Being Wild" - wish there were release dates!

Did these titles have English subtitles?
Or an English dub?

I assume its too soon to tell if the Stones concert will be region free or not, correct?!

No and no

I am not sure that we have much of any data to go on for that.

So, yeah I would say it is too soon... though it is less than a month away...!

Though Im not sure if I want to see Keef in HD.

Is their a list of the any region free blu-rays from france. Movies in the french language? I see sites for english titles from other regions that are region free. But nothing on french tittles. I've imported all the french HD-DVDs I want.

Hey, thanks alot. Did not know that. Now I will be able to go on foreign sites