X-Men The Last Stand dvd

[Guest darkphoenix1624705838]

Anyone here know whether region 3 covers pics are out? Anywhere on the net where we can view it? R1 and 4 were already out and I must say r4 collector's tin edition looks good....

[Jason Yeo]

I thought R1 release on Oct 3  ???

[jayson1624705825]

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Anyone here know whether region 3 covers pics are out? Anywhere on the net where we can view it? R1 and 4 were already out and I must say r4 collector's tin edition looks good....

 

X-men 3 R1 is schedule for Oct 3 usually you can get them around Nov 20+

R4 will be released Oct 18th

 

R3 no news yet usually last minute order should be around the same period

 

[Guest darkphoenix1624705838]

o sorry i meant the covers of r1 n 4 are out....i shud b more clearer  :P

[jayson1624705825]

Currently the R1 importers are not very enthusiastic about bringing in new titles I don't think you will be able to get the Xmen 3 on around the 3rd Nov.

Many new titles are already release in US but are not imported in yet eg. "Hard Candy"19/9

"Akeelah and the Bee"29/8"Scary movie 4" 15/8."lake house"26/9 etc...

There are actually 2 types of R1 importers, suppliers which supply to Video shops and those which bring in for their own retail sales.

As most of the suppliers quit.  the retailers are taking their own sweet time in bring in the new titles as there are not much competition

 

[jazzmatazz]

Code 3 is coming out soon and i think its the same configuration as Code 1... This is Singapore's highest grossing movie of 2006!!

[jayson1624705825]

Code 3 is coming out soon and i think its the same configuration as Code 1...

When they make a master for R1- it only make business sense to make all the master for worldwide distribution. after all internationally they would have at lest 300-400 affiliated distributors.

only thing R3 mostly do not have DTS, but have multi subtitles and sometime multi languages

 

 

[jazzmatazz]

The greatest fear studios have is that they see overseas R1 flooding back into their market.  One good example is the canadian R1, they are cheaper that US R1 and if you go to Laserflair, you can see them going for $34.90 and $29.90.  Imagine when retailers buy R1 cheaper and they resell it back into the US.  Don't think the studios are keen on this and they will never have this situation of R1 for the whole world.

 

Singapore is stuck in a unique positon, we don't really need localisation but we are pegged by our geographic position.  Things should be better with BD and HD.  We are tied to US!

[jayson1624705825]

The greatest fear studios have is that they see overseas R1 flooding back into their market. 

It's not so much as the R1 flooding back their market they are worried about it is the other way around. normally the Canadian titles are released much later than US. and many of them released earlier are mostly independents titles..

 

Until recently all R3 titles are released about 1-2 month later than R1, now it is because of complains that the imported R1 , R6 and pirated DVDs are flooding the market that we are able to get the R3 early.

 

Actually don't forget we are not allowed to convert our DVD players to view multi regions,

and most major brand dvd player do not guarantee their player to play all regions

[karlie]

When they make a master for R1- it only make business sense to make all the master for worldwide distribution. after all internationally they would have at lest 300-400 affiliated distributors.

only thing R3 mostly do not have DTS, but have multi subtitles and sometime multi languages

 

So you are telling us that our Singapore distribustors are extremely skilled...

It takes skills to butcher a perfectly good master...

 

[jayson1624705825]

are you saying that only Americans can make a good dvd, don't forget they didn't invent dvd

anyway the master are made in USA and the only thing the affiliated co do is to encode region 3 before printing dvd. DVD are printed like a newspaper and are not recorded or burn.   

 

distributors only make movies rated M18 or below no R21, therefore nowadays there are no edited movies.

 

in order to really access fairly the quality of R1,3 & 6. try seeing the same title on the same player and same TV

I didTry "Poseidon"which now available on the 3 regions. the result was very surprising

 

Some time Americans do make lousy quality B movies

 

 

[karlie]

are you saying that only Americans can make a good dvd, don't forget they didn't invent dvd

anyway the master are made in USA and the only thing the affiliated co do is to encode region 3 before printing dvd.

 

Sorry still will not buy any R3 DVDs: once burnt...

 

Q:"How do you know whether  an R3 DVD got multichannel sound?"

A:"You play it, because you cannot trust the label"

 

Q:"How do you know whether  an R3 DVD it Anamorphic?"

A:"You play it, because you cannot trust the label"

 

Q:"Have you ever seen pan&scan version of a movie yet still letter boxed as if it had not been p&s?"

A:"But yes of course, on a R3 DVD"

 

 

[jayson1624705825]

well, everybody have their own opinion and experience and  I will respect yours.

 

I have about 2,00 title in my rental shop 3/4 of them are R1,  I use to share the same opinion of R3 as you until i start comparing

 

Your experience with R3 was probably B4 the film classif whereby everything has to be PG , so a lot of editing makes the mastertape very diluted in PQ.

 

nowadays there are mostly no edited versions  otherwise you will see the likes of "Brokeback Mountain, How much you love me, sin city, hostel, history of violence, basic instant 2" also you will not be getting "imagine You and Me" on R3 ;D

[Guest darkphoenix1624705838]

ooh jayson, since u r in the dvd rental bizness, any idea when the r3 of x3 will be out?

 

saw some o the deleted scenes on the net, looks good...

 

for thos who like, you can watch an alternative scene of jean display her power at the camp...

http://xmenfilms.net/xmfnews/2006/09/22/the-5th-deleted-scene/

[Jediknight]

I think nowadays PQ is the same for R3 and R1. However, for whatever reason we still get some R3 titles in Dolby 2.0 and yes, occasionally there is the dreaded "4-sided letterbox effect" where there are black bars all around the picture and the subtitles extend into the lower black bar so you can't get rid of them by using the zoom function. Comstar seems to be the main culprit these days.

[jayson1624705825]

ooh jayson, since u r in the dvd rental bizness, any idea when the r3 of x3 will be out?

 

http://xmenfilms.net/xmfnews/2006/09/22/the-5th-deleted-scene/

 

Have ordered X-men on R3, date schedule for release in Spore is 1st Oct(2 days earlier than US), then again always not on time, but can assume that it is around that period.

 

Comstar, mostly do European movies and independent us releases, that is why their master have no standard format

[karlie]

IMO that is no excuse: are they in the business of producing DVD?

yes? they they should do quality checks after their own mastering...

[jayson1624705825]

X men 3 will be out on R3 this week

[finclk]

IMO that is no excuse: are they in the business of producing DVD?

yes? they they should do quality checks after their own mastering...

 

Only the main big guys have some decent quality check

 

Alliance Entertainment

Scorpio East

Origin Entertainment

HVN

*who else ah?*

 

The rest who do independent releases are dying a slow death. They need the licenses to do major studio releases to continuously sustain their business. Licenses from the major studios are renewed for bidding every yr-few yrs. Highest bidder for each studio gets the sole distributorship for that title.

 

So it's a continuous cyclical process. To make more money u need good studios licenses, but to get good studios, u need enough money in the bidding process. Once a distributor like comstar, videovan gets thrown out of the 'main distributors' gang, very difficult for them to come back to the main gang. They rely mainly on small and independent releases to keep them going.

 

If you guys have been following movies.. back in the 90's videovan was very strong. They controlled more than 50% of major studio licenses. Then they just started dwindling and dying off. Wonder what happened. I think their last major studio license was Disney which is now held by Scorpio East.

 

With small releases, it does not make economic sense to obtain very good quality masters n hence forth they will not produce good quality copies. Because there's no good quality movies, pple buy less and the degenerative cycle continues.

[Guest darkphoenix1624705838]

Have ordered X-men on R3, date schedule for release in Spore is 1st Oct(2 days earlier than US), then again always not on time, but can assume that it is around that period.

 

Comstar, mostly do European movies and independent us releases, that is why their master have no standard format

 

cool...still no pics or specs on the r3 dvd? as usual fox gonna issue another 2nd edition of x3 later on......

[jayson1624705825]

If you guys have been following movies.. back in the 90's videovan was very strong. They controlled more than 50% of major studio licenses. Then they just started dwindling and dying off. Wonder what happened. I think their last major studio license was Disney which is now held by Scorpio East.

 

With small releases, it does not make economic sense to obtain very good quality masters n hence forth they will not produce good quality copies. Because there's no good quality movies, pple buy less and the degenerative cycle continues.

 

Independent titles are a one off thing, and distributors sometimes have to create their own masters. how good these are depend on the cost

 

As for the 90's

V Van only distribute Disney titles all the time.

Warner Bros evolves into Aillance Ent.

all the different labels have their own distributors, like Tristar, MGM,UnitedArtist, carolco, Colombia, New line, marimax forgot all the Co.'s name

The biggest distributor at that time was STY ENT. now closed  they do Universal/Paramount/Fox last time know as CIC

Crown Video Dis. HKTVB, sister Co. Mandrain, Natural, Intelligent Video do all the major Chinese Movies in Singapore now evolves into - Scorpio East

 

As for bidding, I dont think so, it is mostly depending on relationships and proposals on how much money you can give them, like how many A titles +B titles you can release and the % offered + Min guaranteed amount.

 

Different company got different deals. in the 90's i use to work for one of the Co. above that was how it goes at that time , now lost track, assuming about the same ;D ;D

[JT]

Xmen 3 R3 is out for 29.90sgd. Got DTS-ES and DD-EX audio.

 

 

 

 

[Guest darkphoenix1624705838]

is it a two discs edition or standard one disc?

[JT]

is it a two discs edition or standard one disc?

 

2 discs set. But cover not that good.  Hope the AV quality is like R1.

 

 

[redders]

2 discs set. But cover not that good.  Hope the AV quality is like R1.

 

 

 

Is this released by local company Aliance or a "universal" R3 ??

 

Also is the comic book Collector Edition avail ? thanks