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Macross Plus Ultimate Edition Blu-ray Release Thread
Keith replied to sh9000's topic in Movies and TV Series
They're locked, not hard. Hard subs are actually burned into the video, locked subs "could" be worled around with a prpprr doftware or hardware hack(such as re-authoring the didcs to remove the lock flag, or using a player that ignore's such locks).- 214 replies
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Macross Plus Ultimate Edition Blu-ray Release Thread
Keith replied to sh9000's topic in Movies and TV Series
Well, there is good reason for making the UK dib the primary version, that being it has all of the original music & SFX. The U.S. dub for ep 4 was rushed because of some issue wirh Manga U.S. not wanting to wait to get get the raw music & SFX tracks on ep 4, so they patch-worked their own. Manga UK did wait, but not all of the original dub cast was available at that point. As for the subtitles being locked, that's certainly Big West stipulating it in the licence, and isn't uncommon these days. It's a tactic meant to discourage re-importing foreign releases into Japan.- 214 replies
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Keith replied to sh9000's topic in Movies and TV Series
Why would you stop to read the back, when you could just rip open the packaging & pop in a disc? Wth that said, yeah, they play fine on a region A player, and there are no signs of French subs, so I'm thinking they did 1 master for the U.S. & UK, witg possibly a different master for the French release. The disc art also has the EU rating.- 214 replies
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Keith replied to sh9000's topic in Movies and TV Series
Just took a quick peek through both disc's: There's a new front loading "Big West" logo, I expect to see that on the other U.S. releases (whenever they happen). Subtitles are locked, meaning you can't change audio options on the fly (you have to use the disc & pop-up menu). OVA: The subtitle translation is similar to, but feels cleaned up / updated from Manga's old sub script. There are also song subs now. Movie: There are 2 subtitle options now, Manga's & a newer Bandai sub. The Bandai sub is definitely cleaned up / refined from what we got on the Japanese release, using Guld & Isamu's fight on Earth for comparison. Oddly, only the Manga subs have song lyrics though. Audio: I didn't go into the dub much, but the Japanese audio is bright & clear. The bass lines during "The Borderline" stood out especially strong. Video: comparing withthe Japanese release (might as well, since I'm swapping them into that massive box), it looks like we have the same master. Colors are vubrant, blacks are mice & deep (save for sone early space scenes, but I think that's just 90's gray space color choices more than anythjng), grain is present but not intrusive, all in all what you'd want from the era. I'm quite satisfied here. It's just too bad too bad the regular release won't have the OVA's included, but they definitrly justified picking uo the massive box version for me. For those who care about such things, the U.S. dub of ep 4 is indeed an extra (in the extra's section of the disc), and accompanied by the remastered video. All of the credits are the original Japanese credits, it doesn't look like they translated them anywhere on disc.- 214 replies
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Gundam Show Thread - MSG thru Witch from Mercury
Keith replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Honestly, I thought the Gundam looked like the Turn A fraked the Iron Giant, with the worst aspects of both coming out. Mind you "I like" both of those designs, but not this thing.- 3606 replies
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Keith replied to sh9000's topic in Movies and TV Series
Honestly, I'm going to swap the discs with the Japanese BD release, and pop the big mess in the closet (using the superior Japanese packaging for the shelf), so whatever.- 214 replies
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Gundam Show Thread - MSG thru Witch from Mercury
Keith replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Reqium is definitely trash, the animation is so unnatural that I'd be shocked if a human was involved in handling the movement. The Gundam looks way closer to Turn A than anything 0079 contemporary. The show feels like someone watched a trailer for Thunderbolt & a trailer for MS IGLOO, then jumped right in without seeing either. Also, they took out 3 whole Federation fleets at Loom, but aren't significantly mire distinguished than Char (who only took out a measly 5 ships)?- 3606 replies
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Macross DYRL in 4K UHD with English Subtitles
Keith replied to GGemini's topic in Movies and TV Series
It only took BW looking at the potential revenue from the international (almost) rollout on Disney+. If I knew it would be that easy, I would have invented high speed internet and streaming services decades ago..... -
Macross DYRL in 4K UHD with English Subtitles
Keith replied to GGemini's topic in Movies and TV Series
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Macross DYRL in 4K UHD with English Subtitles
Keith replied to GGemini's topic in Movies and TV Series
Yeah, the Cero ratings board is "strict", any content on a disc that has a game on it in Japan needs to adhere to the games rating standards. The real question is why didn't BW split the demo off into its own thing when they found out? -
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Keith replied to GGemini's topic in Movies and TV Series
I wouldn't worry about edits, those were 100% game demo related. But English subs? OMFG BW, that was all you ever had to do! -
Looking for info on the Uncut VHS release of DYRL circa 1995
Keith replied to Darkwater's topic in Movies and TV Series
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Macross Plus Ultimate Edition Blu-ray Release Thread
Keith replied to sh9000's topic in Movies and TV Series
Possibly because it hasn't had a stand alone blu-ray release in Japan?- 214 replies
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Keith replied to sh9000's topic in Movies and TV Series
The Japanese Blu-ray release didn't have subtitles on the OVA, and the movie translation was....interesting. People also tend to forget how dark Manga's old analogue master on DVD OVA releaae was. I'm personally all in for the upgrade.- 214 replies
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