Info on import Blu-ray titles

[Homerx]

largo winch france 2008, this came out on blu at the end of july. its put out by wild side wondering if its region free...

[Cochise]

largo winch france 2008, this came out on blu at the end of july. its put out by wild side wondering if its region free...

blurayregioncodes says it all regions. But, it's not English friendly - there's a dubbed all French audio, and the original language with French subs when non-French is spoken. The original audio is primarily English, but with quite a bit of French, and scenes with Croation, Brazilian Portugese spoken.

There is also a Hong Kong release Aug. 20 with the original language and English subtitles. I have a copy of the HK release on its way to me.

[Homerx]

blurayregioncodes says it all regions. But, it's not English friendly - there's a dubbed all French audio, and the original language with French subs when non-French is spoken. The original audio is primarily English, but with quite a bit of French, and scenes with Croation, Brazilian Portugese spoken.

There is also a Hong Kong release Aug. 20 with the original language and English subtitles. I have a copy of the HK release on its way to me.

thanks, Ive bookmarked the region codes site. very helpful

[kannisto]

I got a nice load of BDs yesterday:

Germany:
- Strange Days
- The Painted Veil
- Control
- Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (no English)
- Die Welle (with soundtrack CD) (no English)

Sweden:
- Mammoth (Mammut)
- Rise of the Footsoldier (1080i50)
- Surveillance (1080i50)

All of them were region free except Strange Days, could play all others straight off with my LG BD370. Didn't test PS3 playability of any of them as my PS3 is no longer connected to my TV and sound setup currently.

Mammoth has English subs available for non-English scenes, the original audio is English with some Thai and Tagalog parts as well. It also includes Nordic subs. I'm quite interested in that one as I liked "Tillsammans", and earlier film by Lukas Moodysson quite much. He's quite famous for his movies in Nordic countries at least.

[ahsoka]

Mammoth has English subs available for non-English scenes, the original audio is English with some Thai and Tagalog parts as well. It also includes Nordic subs. I'm quite interested in that one as I liked "Tillsammans", and earlier film by Lukas Moodysson quite much. He's quite famous for his movies in Nordic countries at least.

I'm planning to get Mammoth as well, it looks interesting. The New Country is the only movie from Lukas Moodysson I've watched before, it was quite good.

[kannisto]

I'm planning to get Mammoth as well, it looks interesting. The New Country is the only movie from Lukas Moodysson I've watched before, it was quite good.

Quite many releases in Sweden recently that I'm interested in. Just ordered Män Som Hatar Kvinnor / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo together with the Nordic Scanbox releases of the two Che -movies. Män Som... seems to have Finnish subs, all the web shops have only listed Swedish subs so far so I was keeping it on hold but now it's released today and cdon.se has a pic of the backside of the case and looks like there are Finnish subs too (hard to read the small print though). I would have expected Finnish subs from Nordisk Film anyway.

http://cdon.se/film/m%C3%A4n_som_hat...u-ray)-4163325

I hope Megastore will ship all of them quickly, at least they were all in stock when I ordered according to their page.

Now I have to find time for watching all my recent purchases...

[ahsoka]

Quite many releases in Sweden recently that I'm interested in. Just ordered Män Som Hatar Kvinnor / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo together with the Nordic Scanbox releases of the two Che -movies. Män Som... seems to have Finnish subs, all the web shops have only listed Swedish subs so far so I was keeping it on hold but now it's released today and cdon.se has a pic of the backside of the case and looks like there are Finnish subs too (hard to read the small print though). I would have expected Finnish subs from Nordisk Film anyway.

Here's a slightly larger pic of the back cover where you can see the details a bit better. It definitely has Finnish subs.
I'll get this movie at some point too. I've watched the trailer and it looks great.

http://www.ginza.se/Product/Product....ntifier=315755

edit: I ordered this today. Look forward to watching it.

[kannisto]

Here's a slightly larger pic of the back cover where you can see the details a bit better. It definitely has Finnish subs.
I'll get this movie at some point too. I've watched the trailer and it looks great.

http://www.ginza.se/Product/Product....ntifier=315755

edit: I ordered this today. Look forward to watching it.

Mine shipped yesterday, hoping to get it around next Monday if not earlier One of the Che BDs was out of stock immediately after I placed my order so I thought I might have missed out on quick shipping but apparently I got the last one of those from their stock.

[kannisto]

Korean release of The Good, the Bad, the Weird seems to be postponed to 17th of September, at least according to an e-mail I received from k2dvd store.

[kannisto]

Picked up 20th Century Boys - Chapter 2 and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc Japanese releases 2nd hand today.

Interesting that 20th Century Boys 2 was already available in Tsutaya's 2nd hand section as today happens to be the release day for it Similar specs to the 1st one (Japan release), no English, 1080p BD50, DTS-HD MA 5.1 and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and DD 2.0 audio tracks in Japanese. Most likely region free, couldn't try it out yet as I'm at work. Amazon JP was out of stock for this already with 1-4 week estimated delivery time.

EDIT: Confirmed that 20th Century Boys Chapter 2 (JP) is region free:

Summary for drive G: (AnyDVD 6.5.7.4)
HL-DT-ST BD-REGGW-H20N XL05 [serial no removed]
Drive (Hardware) Region: 2

Media is a Blu-Ray disc.

Total size: 23778592 sectors (46442 MBytes)
Video Blu-ray label: BDROM
Media is AACS protected!
AACS MKB version 12
Removed AACS copy protection!
Blu-ray disc is region free!
Removed UOPs!

[kannisto]

Received Män som hatar kvinnor (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) (Nordisk Film) and Che Part 1 & 2 (Scanbox - distributed by Paramount) Swedish releases yesterday. All are region free but none of them have English subs.

Män som hatar kvinnor is on a BD-50, just some trailers as extras. High bitrate AVC video and Swedish DTS-HD MA 5.1 and DD 448 kbps audio tracks. Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish subs.

Che part 1 has a "Making of" extra and both parts have some trailers on them. DTS-HD MA 5.1 and DD 448 kbps DD original audio on both parts. Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic subs (though Icelandic not listed on case). The subs are on a bit too large / fat font for my liking.

Looking forward to watching these.

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Watched Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (German release) with external subs and enjoyed it quite a bit, excellent PQ and AQ and the movie was excellent especially when it comes to visuals and audio and technical merits. It was quite action oriented and didn't explain a whole lot about the background of the story.

[ahsoka]

Received Män som hatar kvinnor (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) (Nordisk Film) and Che Part 1 & 2 (Scanbox - distributed by Paramount) Swedish releases yesterday. All are region free but none of them have English subs.

Män som hatar kvinnor is on a BD-50, just some trailers as extras. High bitrate AVC video and Swedish DTS-HD MA 5.1 and DD 448 kbps audio tracks. Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish subs.

Che part 1 has a "Making of" extra and both parts have some trailers on them. DTS-HD MA 5.1 and DD 448 kbps DD original audio on both parts. Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic subs (though Icelandic not listed on case). The subs are on a bit too large / fat font for my liking.

Looking forward to watching these.

Watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/Millenium last night and enjoyed it quite a lot, it was very suspenseful. The lead actors Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace were great. Also it was very nice visually.

There's a French BD out November 13, probably no English subtitles though.
http://www.amazon.fr/Millenium-Blu-r...1829555&sr=1-1

There's also a Canadian release November 3 (unless it's a different movie with the same title).
http://www.amazon.ca/Millenium-Film-...1829154&sr=1-3

[kannisto]

Watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/Millenium last night and enjoyed it quite a lot, it was very suspenseful. The lead actors Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace were great. Also it was very nice visually.

There's a French BD out November 13, probably no English subtitles though.
http://www.amazon.fr/Millenium-Blu-r...1829555&sr=1-1

There's also a Canadian release November 3 (unless it's a different movie with the same title).
http://www.amazon.ca/Millenium-Film-...1829154&sr=1-3

I also watched it last night. Excellent PQ/AQ and indeed the story had a great deal of suspence and good pacing, even though the film was quite long at 153 minutes it kept interest up all the time. A very good thriller. Based on the trailers on the BD, it looks like the 2nd movie is starting theatrically on 18th of September and the 3rd one on 1st of January 2010. Director for the sequels seems to be Daniel Alfredsson who was the 2nd unit director on the first one, I wonder if they'll be as good. Looking forward to getting those on BD at some later time when they are released

[HumanMedia]

thanks, Ive bookmarked the region codes site. very helpful

Another site worth mentioning for region codes, which only lists region codes for titles without a USA release, is www.releaselists.com.

Here is a link straight to the page of international titles with region code info:

http://www.releaselists.com/BLURAYIn...lReleased.html
http://www.releaselists.com/BLURAYInternational.html

[Homerx]

just updated the PS3 with 3.0. tryed my four non-working titles due to some issue. i was able to get one working.

roman de gare from france now works. the menu loads and the film plays but non of the extras work. so i'm guessing those are in PAL. there is just a french 5.1 dolby digital track. no subs at all and just the one audio track