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The Disney Blu-ray Thread: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Vault
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RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
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woahitsreeo
Member
So are the rather high prices and lack of availability for Monsters Inc. blu-ray due to the 3D rerelease in January 2013 or are they actually throwing a Pixar movie in to the vault?
I completed my Disney blu-ray collection with a relatively cheap new copy of Sleeping Beauty (or well, at least the older releases, there are a couple of recent ones I still have to get). I was actually quite new to this Disney Vault phenomenon (hadn't really gotten into the habit of buying DVDs and the parents bought the Disney animations on VHS when I was still a child), so I didn't know they vaulted these things until it was too late. Now I know better and I get the movies in time.
Probably not. Only Pixar titles in the near future AFAIK.
This is logical. Great way to hype the movie and build excitement for it.
Actually, The Little Mermaid is too. I would say there's a chance, but they haven't announced anything yet.
Well, the pristine Japanese transfers are too expensive and the UK Optimum transfers are a pile of shit. Waiting for the middle-ground between cost and quality isn't a bad thing.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
What makes the UK transfers shitty?
Nothing. Just google reviews and you'll see most of the UK transfers look fine. What I didn't like about the UK releases were the subtitles, as a lot of it was translated directly and not transliterated.
Either way, we're getting three more titles here in NA in the next few months, so I just sold my UK copies and will pick up the Disney releases.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Ah, that's shitty. Will the Disney versions be transliterated?
Theonik
Member
They are done by a different company entirely, from the top of my head the main differences are that the picture seems less grainy in the UK release with some colour difference too. But the real turn off for me was the yellow subtitles. Screw that.
disappeared
Banned
Looking for Sleeping Beauty. Now I find out it's been put back in the Vault.
Amazon.ca is saying I can get a new copy for around $60 via a private seller. I love the film, but that's too much money.
Amazon.ca is saying I can get a new copy for around $60 via a private seller. I love the film, but that's too much money.
Femmeworth
Banned
Whisper of the Heart and Castle in the Sky will be mine. :O
Looking for Sleeping Beauty. Now I find out it's been put back in the Vault.
Amazon.ca is saying I can get a new copy for around $60 via a private seller. I love the film, but that's too much money.
Did you try ebay?
Also, Ghibli movies in HD...cannot wait.
Since I helped someone out recently with a cover scan I figured I'd try my luck and hope for good karma by asking for a couple of scans =)
I'm looking for Dumbo and the Lion King sequels. If anyone has those on Blu and has a few minutes and would be willing to scan them in for me it would be greatly appreciated =D
I'm looking for Dumbo and the Lion King sequels. If anyone has those on Blu and has a few minutes and would be willing to scan them in for me it would be greatly appreciated =D
I could scan in Dumbo for you. I'm also looking for scans of the Lion King sequels.
Looking for Sleeping Beauty. Now I find out it's been put back in the Vault.
Amazon.ca is saying I can get a new copy for around $60 via a private seller. I love the film, but that's too much money.
I am having this problem as well.
That would be amazing, thanks.
I actually think the ones I got for the Lion King sequels are alright, they're bilingual, but they look like retail covers. I'll scan em in for ya later tonight and you can be the judge.
Looking for Sleeping Beauty. Now I find out it's been put back in the Vault.
Amazon.ca is saying I can get a new copy for around $60 via a private seller. I love the film, but that's too much money.
I bought a new, still sealed copy for little over 20 euros (that's something like for ~30$) from Play.com just last week. Don't really have a habit of buying blu-rays for that price, but for a Disney movie that's gone back to the Vault, it was incredibly tempting so I went ahead and bought it.
Heavy DNR that removes fine detail. I guess their goal was to remove the grain (why?!) but as always that just resulted in detail loss. Also, the colour timing is wrong and everything has a weird tint to it.
Basically, it sucks.
Femmeworth
Banned
Did they do that for Nausicaa too? They better not do anything for the US release. >:\
They (the UK company, Optimum) did indeed. The US release is fine. Not as good as the Japanese transfer, but good enough.
Femmeworth
Banned
Damn. :\ I guess even Ghibli is afraid of reverse importation.
Theonik
Member
Ghibli does their own transfers for JP so it's simply a matter of having different people involved.
Yep, I touched on that on my previous post. But also Yellow subtitles!
Monkeylord
Member
Oooh, my Toy Story 2 3D turned up today.
That's all 3 of them, in 3D, on my shelf.
This pleases me greatly.
That's all 3 of them, in 3D, on my shelf.
This pleases me greatly.
Christopher
Member
I think we need an update of the Disney movie list coming out this year, when they did that whole release of catalog titles I totally got lost in the shuffle from what can still remember:
Pocohantas
Tarazan
Treasure Planet
Home on the Range
Atlantis
Cinderella
The Aristrocats
Plus now there are just a mess of catalog titles, a lot to keep up with.
Pocohantas
Tarazan
Treasure Planet
Home on the Range
Atlantis
Cinderella
The Aristrocats
Plus now there are just a mess of catalog titles, a lot to keep up with.
Mr. Wonderful
Member
Disappointed we don't have a date on Pocahontas or The Rescuers yet.
If you have the money, you can get a bunch of Ghibli movies on Bluray from Japan RIGHT NOW! They're Region A, have English subtitles and most of them even include the English dubs!
They're also three times the price! Or nearly that. ..as you alluded to in the post I'm quoting.
But it might be a good idea to get the Japanese release of Princess Mononoke since that won't be making it to America anytime soon.
Speaking of which, can anyone suggest a good place for Japan > USA bluray imports?
Femmeworth
Banned
Ask the anime thread.
VGChampion
Member
Oooo, English dubs?! I only thought they had subs. Definitely going to look into some of these now.
Does Japan have Kiki's Delivery Service or Spirited Away on Blu-ray yet? I looked on Amazon Japan and can only find the DVDs.
Was wondering about this myself. The only two that have shown up on Amazon are Treasure Planet and Home on the Range.
Christopher
Member
May 15th, 2012: -
- Father of the Bride / Father of the Bride Part II
- Bringing Down the House
June 5th, 2012: -
The Color of Money
- Cocktail
- Ransom
June 19th, 2012: - Sister Act / Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
- Evita
July 3rd, 2012: - Home on the Range
- The Horse Whisperer
- Phenomenon
- Step Up
- Treasure Planet
- Under the Tuscan Sun
August 7th, 2012:
- The Aristocats
Fall 2012: - Adventures in Babysitting
- Ed Wood
- Ghosts of the Abyss 3D
- Grosse Pointe Blank
- High Fidelity
- Judge Dredd
- Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
- Pete's Dragon
- Pocahontas / Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World two-movie package
- The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under two-movie package
- Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
- The Tigger Movie
Beginning in October 2012:
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- Arachnophobia
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Babes in Toyland
- Beaches
- Brother Bear
- Cinderella
- Cold Creek Manor
- Dick Tracy
- Flubber
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
- Hocus Pocus
- The Santa Clause Trilogy
- Son of Flubber
- Sweet Home Alabama
- While You Were Sleeping
- Father of the Bride / Father of the Bride Part II
- Bringing Down the House
June 5th, 2012: -
The Color of Money
- Cocktail
- Ransom
June 19th, 2012: - Sister Act / Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
- Evita
July 3rd, 2012: - Home on the Range
- The Horse Whisperer
- Phenomenon
- Step Up
- Treasure Planet
- Under the Tuscan Sun
August 7th, 2012:
- The Aristocats
Fall 2012: - Adventures in Babysitting
- Ed Wood
- Ghosts of the Abyss 3D
- Grosse Pointe Blank
- High Fidelity
- Judge Dredd
- Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
- Pete's Dragon
- Pocahontas / Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World two-movie package
- The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under two-movie package
- Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
- The Tigger Movie
Beginning in October 2012:
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- Arachnophobia
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Babes in Toyland
- Beaches
- Brother Bear
- Cinderella
- Cold Creek Manor
- Dick Tracy
- Flubber
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
- Hocus Pocus
- The Santa Clause Trilogy
- Son of Flubber
- Sweet Home Alabama
- While You Were Sleeping
Any chance the Arrietty US blu-ray will have the UK dub? Really hate the new USA dub. It's horrid
From the Arrietty thread
As long as it has the original Japanese who cares? I think the English dubs are always crap.
That is true, but I just always feel like things should be seen in their original form. I think I've just hated all of Disney's dubs for the Ghibli films, but I may have to check out the UK dub.
Monkeylord
Member
Live-action - native language
Animation - dub
That's how I roll.
Live-action looks "off" dubbed, and some UK dubs are awful (seriously, check out Ong-Bak's Uk dub, it's hilariously bad).
Seeing how animation usually isn't any more detailed than a mouth being open or closed (most of the time they don't even animate the jaws) you can get away with a dub.
Well, the way I look at it, unless the animation was lip-synched to the actors (so Akira or Disney films, basically) there is no "original version". 9/10s out of the Japanese dub will be superior, of course, but every now and again you get a Cowboy Bebop or an Arriety.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Oh yeaahhh!
Oh yes. I love the Cowboy Bebop English dub. That show's dub is absolutely top notch. I do love the way that Jet says Spike Spiegel in Japanese though.
FloppyDelux
Member
Totoro and grave of the fireflies are coming out on blu ray in july...in japan.
*dumb mistake*
*dumb mistake*
Takamura-San
Member
Sigur ros Tickets link???