Info on import Blu-ray titles

[kannisto]

Wild Side Video has some info on the Crows Zero BD. There's a screenshot of the audio menu and unfortunatly it seems like the French subtitles are forced with the Japanese track. Probably not so good in combination with the external subs.

http://www.wildside.fr/video/fiche.p...438&version=2#

It's not a problem for my subtitle method as I remux the original video stream and audio stream with external subs using tsMuxeR, which means any forced subs that are not hardcoded into the video image will be dropped out. If there is an option to watch the movie with French audio dub without the subs (usually the French releases have that option), then the subs can't be hardcoded into the video image.

If you are using PC for playback with AnyDVD HD, checking the option to remove "Prohibited User Operations" in AnyDVD's Video Blu-ray settings also allows this kind of forced subs to be turned off using playback software's subtitle setting after starting playback.

On standalone players there's of course no method to turn the subs off then when watching the original disc though, but there's no way to add external subs that way either.

[ahsoka]

Thanks for the info on AnyDVD HD! I didn't know it can remove forced subtitles. I tried it with the French BD The Banquet and it really works. Look forward to watching Crows Zero with the external subs.

The Mongol UK BD is the only disc with hardcoded subs that I own.

[kannisto]

Thanks for the info on AnyDVD HD! I didn't know it can remove forced subtitles. I tried it with the French BD The Banquet and it really works. Look forward to watching Crows Zero with the external subs.

The Mongol UK BD is the only disc with hardcoded subs that I own.

I also have a couple of UK BDs with hardcoded English subs (Female Agents, Downfall etc.) but it's not been much of a problem because I need those English subs with them anyway.

I'm also going to pre-order Crows Zero, hopefully it will be a good transfer and not a 1080i50 encode

[KSC2303]

My copy of Tokyo Sonata just arrived, so I can highly recommend BlahDVD. Can't wait to watch it

[kannisto]

My copy of Tokyo Sonata just arrived, so I can highly recommend BlahDVD. Can't wait to watch it

That was pretty fast I hope to get mine from Amazon UK soon.

[kannisto]

My package with these was shipped from Amazon JP this morning:

- The Crow
- K-20: Legend of the Mask (no English expected)

I hope to get them soon, probably Thursday or Friday. I'll post some info when I've received them.

[kannisto]

I took a look at recent Italian releases at dvdland.it and ordered these:

Come Dio Comanda (As God Commands)
http://www.dvdland.it/nicom1/p_56097...a_blu_ray.html

The Burning Plain
http://www.dvdland.it/nicom1/p_56124...e_blu_ray.html

The Horsemen
http://www.dvdland.it/nicom1/p_56215...n_blu_ray.html

The first one is an Italian film and according to dvdland it has English subs. I'll post some info when I get these, probably about 10 days from now.

[kannisto]

I received The Crow (Geneon Universal) and K20: Legend of the Mask (VAP) Japanese releases today. Both are region free. K20 has only Japanese audio and Japanese subs as expected. More info to be posted soonish

Also got Tokyo Sonata from Amazon UK.

[DCSholtis]

Ordered Jackie Brown from a polish site the other night. $26 with shipping included.

http://www.bluedvd.pl/p/pl/pr009/jac...n+blu-ray.html

[kannisto]

Ordered Jackie Brown from a polish site the other night. $26 with shipping included.

http://www.bluedvd.pl/p/pl/pr009/jac...n+blu-ray.html

Seems like a good price on that one Let us know how it is when you get it. I'm thinking of buying the French release of that though as I have some other stuff to get from France around the same time it gets released.

[DCSholtis]

I certainly will. It was a bit strange ordering though I went through their charge card service but it came back that they needed to verify things or something so I was asked for my cellphone number then told to enter the verification code once sent by SMS, once I did that everything was fine.

EDIT: Just got my shipping notification this morning.

[ahsoka]

Looks like The Chaser [KR] and A Chinese Tall Story [HK] will be released October 7 in France by M6 Video.

[collectorgonewild]

Any word yet on whether the UK, Australia, or other foreign blu-ray of The Unborn will be region-free? I want a copy that has the international cover art (much better than the US artwork don't u think?.....)

[-zombie-]

Any word yet on whether the UK, Australia, or other foreign blu-ray of The Unborn will be region-free? I want a copy that has the international cover art (much better than the US artwork don't u think?.....)

No idea on the region coding but yeah I just saw the artwork for the UK disc and it's much better than the US cover art... but what else is new.

[kannisto]

There's a review of the UK version of The Unborn here:
http://www.avforums.com/movies/index.php?showmedia=9759

It lists the region as 0 in the specs section which may mean it's region free... I guess since it's by Universal it's fairly likely to be region free but one can never be certain without testing or reliable reports.