Night Watch and Day Watch (Fox Japan) impressions

[kannisto]

Originally Posted by lgans316

I love you twice now. One love for Night Watch and Second Love for Day Watch. Thanks a lot for posting the specs in AVS. Time to expose the specs to the outside world.

Btw how is PQ ? Can it be used as demo material ?

I watched Night Watch yesterday and I thought PQ was very good though there is some variation from scene to scene but that seems to be directly related to how the movie has been shot originally. I didn't notice any artifacts such as DNR or EE and some scenes had very excellent level of sharpness and detail, but some others were a little bit less detailed and level of grain was a bit variable as well depending on scene. Overall impression was very good in any case, it looked like a fine presentation of what I imagine the original elements would probably look like

As PQ demo material I guess there are a bit more consistently super-detailed BD movies out there but the combination of the very original and impressive visuals on this one with the PQ of the release was quite impressive for me.

I watched it with DTS audio and the audio didn't completely impress me though it was adequate, I guess TrueHD track could still be much better. I have no lossless audio setup.

I'm trying to watch Day Watch tonight.

[lgans316]

Thanks again buddy. I guess you would be happy with the availability of Finnish & Swedish subs.

[kannisto]

Yeah, Finnish subs are nice for me but English subs work just about as fine. If original audio is in English I actually prefer English subs as otherwise I start to think about how they've done the translations.

Swedish subs are not as useful for me

[lgans316]

Watching Day Watch at Midnight.
Gussuri oyasumi.

[lgans316]

Kannisto,

Could you please re-confirm if the discs aren't REGION LOCKED ? I am getting request from E.U based members who want to import the boxset from Japan. Please advice.

[kannisto]

I already confirmed as much as possible on my PC:
- AnyDVD HD says they are region free
- They work on my PC with my LG drive and WinDVD9 though the region code for Blu-ray is not set on the playback hw/sw side and region A titles don't work in the same situation

I have no other way to check as I don't have any region B hw.

[lgans316]

Thanks Kannisto for the confirmation.

[Morphine]

I get mine tomorrow. 3 days from Japan to NYC, gotta love fast shipping, I`ll let you guys know if it plays

[kannisto]

Originally Posted by Morphine

I get mine tomorrow. 3 days from Japan to NYC, gotta love fast shipping, I`ll let you guys know if it plays

Do you have some region B or C hardware to test it on as all Japanese releases should work in U.S. players even if they were region A locked?

[lgans316]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/...dedde3a0_b.jpg

Night Watch

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3143/...e128fbc6_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/...5864a0fd_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3137/...f7439fcd_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/...79a7bc8d_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3010/...6532a5e5_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2278/...e0b4bd7b_b.jpg

PQ: 4~4.75 / 5

Day Watch

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3015/...3c17cacd_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/...3ba84e01_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/...02396468_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3036/...682efa98_b.jpg

PQ: 4~5 / 5 [Grain haters stay away]

There are quite a number of scenes that seem to have reference PQ.

[Seihaku]

Disappointing about the lack of animated subs, maybe the US release.

[lgans316]

But the U.S release may not feature the longer versions and could be Region Locked. So pick your poison.

[Seihaku]

Region Locking isn't an issue for me since I'm in the US, and I actually prefer the US cut of Night Watch over the original (it flows much, much better), I just wish the subs were more accurate.

[kannisto]

Xploited Cinema has added a listing for this double-pack:
http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/ni...y-p-14228.html

$77.95

[Arkadin]

thanks for the info Kannisto!
I have never seen these titles strangely enough, but have seen the sd versions in stores.
Looking very much forward to checking them out and am very tempted regarding these versions.