I was told that Real Steel Blu ray is released in Asia and its a steelbook (at least in Spore). Does anyone know if its available locally?

Bro, check out the pics at xtremeplace on the spore version. Looks like steel book. Good price too. Funny how the release date is earlier .

Edit: corrected auto spell

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Jan 9 2012, 07:22 PM

I really depends on the length of the movie, the dynamic range during the scenes both for amount of video and audio information. The advanced codecs for video, ie AVC, VC-1 and the right tools and the right person who is doing the tranfer for the retail version can properly enable a transfer that will fit the 25GB disc. Also the compression tools available for audio (lossless) is also very efficient these days and it really depends on the amount that is going on during that particular scene at that particular time. Its important that the person who is doing the transfer knows how to set the correct bitrates during each scene.

Motion capture has come a long way.

BTW, if anyone in Penang, that has a Region B capable player and wants a free Dances With Wolves (Extended Edition, 7.1 DTS HD MA - German Edition), pls contact me. I hv the Kinowelt edition that has errors in the subwoofer channel (the movie does not have much info in the sub channel anyway) without a cover, just the disc. Kinowelt replaced the disc with a later pressing. Great for those who do not use a 5.1/7.1 system and watch it 2 channel.

If u bought it urself, let Kinowelt know and they will send u a replacement disc. There is a problem with the lfe channel on these discs.

If u want it, check with him as I got it from him as well.

Quoting myself.

No takers for a free Dances with Wolves Region B locked from anyone in the Northern Region?

I did not feel there was anything wrong with the previous audio encode (Dolby True HD and PCM) so not sure why the need to move to DTS HD MA.

I'm not sure I agree with this.

Just picked up Pocahontas/Pocahontas II from Artist Gallery in Penang.

1 disc edition with both movies. Tested for a couple of minutes for both the movies. Pretty good if u ask me. Decent price.

Both DTS HDMA 5.1.

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Apr 7 2012, 06:34 PM

Yes, Disney version of course. Will try to take some shots later with my phone cam.

Andrew, local edition as u know does not come with slipcover, so I'm not sure its ur cup of tea.

But my kids will love it.

These are resized pictures, did not want to take up bandwidth

Pocahontas (back)

Pocahontas (front)

Forgive the photos, taken from phone.

I scanned the movies with BDInfo.

The 1st movie has an average video bitrate of 21978kbps, the 2nd movie 20032kbps. Good enuf for animation. Both are pretty short. Audio is 3783kbps for the 1st one and 2822kbps for the 2nd one. Both 48kHz/24bit.

There are a few extras. Did not check them out. The disc size is ~ 42GB.

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Apr 7 2012, 08:51 PM

I added some specs to the last post.

The bitrates are identical to the 2 disc versions from Europe (Russia)

If the disc is faulty, there is a possibility u can get a replacement (and it is a known issue).

I had a similar issue where I bought the Godfather Trilogy from Amazon UK but realized only after 1.5yrs that Part 2 was faulty and only worked halfway. It was a known problem with the initial Trilogy boxset. Contacted Amazon and they replaced the whole boxset for me.

So again, if its a known issue, Amazon will refund but it depends.

Terra, not seen u around often these days.

I like to use dddhouse. Very reasonable shipping rates.

http://www.dddhouse.com/v3/product_details...ProductID=10168

I recently watched The Art of Flight which is a documentary on snowboarding. It has very good PQ, AQ is fantastic and on some scenes the LFE is phenomenal....It was an interesting documentary cum action sports film. It makes very good use of the 7.1 Dolby TrueHD track and there are a lot of scenes where the soundstage literally feels like 360 degrees. I enjoyed this movie and really admire the guts these guys have to do what they do.

Been around. Don't post much nowadays. Very quiet this thread.

Heads up, the 4 Disc Avengers (3D, Blu Ray) is now only USD19.99 at Amazon.

Very good price for a combo IMO.

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Sep 26 2012, 08:59 AM

Doing ok, been around but busy. We shd plan to meet. Still hv the BDs to pass to u. Maybe this weekend?

Some of the 3D titles were very well priced yesterday but hv shot up today. I believe it will do so for the next week or so.