There was mention in a Chinese website that talks about where Deltamac gets their blu-ray releases done thru the high definition transfers. If my assumption is correct, Deltamac does the whole HD mastering for blu-ray at the same location for most (if not, all) of their BD releases. I normally buy Chinese DVD's (which I have recently abandoned) and bluray's. Tai Seng typically takes the Hong Kong discs and slaps their sticker on the product itself.
Now for Initial D, Tai Seng had reached an agreement with Megastar (owned by HK film studio, Media Asia) to co-produce high definition bluray discs. Provided that Megastar allows Tai Seng to use their film and audio transfers and Megastar would be permitted to use their revamped English subtitles (and English dubbed audio tracks) in exchange. However, this doesn't include some of the Media Asia produced movies which Tai Seng doesn't own for North American distribution rights like "The Warlords" starring Jet Li, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau.
With that being said and done, I'd also like to add John Woo's "Red Cliff" as another reference material example. This movie looks amazing in HD. I can't say that I know everything there is about how the Hong Kong home video industry works. But if you want some credentials, I've done work for Joy Sales.
Just a random plug before I go, "Connected" is coming out this week to blu-ray. It's a Hong Kong remake of a Hollywood movie called "Cellular" (which starred Jason Statham) and it'll be Joy Sales' first official blu-ray title. Funny thing is, when I spoke to my boss at Joy Sales about tapping into the HD market, he just simply refused to let the company give high definition a try. He said a lot of things to me about it. But one year after I spoke with him and he has now caved in to have his company give bluray a try. I'm still trying to coerce him into releasing Jackie Chan's recent Hong Kong movies (namely "The Myth" and "Rob-B-Hood") for blu-ray. I've actually worked on the subtitles for the special features on tho dvd releases of those two movies. Have always been looking for a time to justify my old translations since I was never satisfied with the subtitles shown on the DVD. (Rushed schedule never allowed me the time to perfect it for the first time around)
godofchaos wrote:
I said it's Tai Seng's disk, which it is, and my understanding from people I know who have both disks is the video was slightly changed. Deltamac also advertised their disk as having a PCM track, which the Tai Seng disk doesn't, so there does seem to be various little changes, not to mention changes such as a commentary with Tai Seng staff in it. Regardless, it's a Tai Seng disk, with their name on it, so they get the credit for the transfer, since, as we've seen with DBZ, being 'given' a transfer doesn't mean much since it can easily be changed.
I also bring up the Tai Seng disk of Initial D, which as far as I'm aware (could be wrong) was actually a coproduction with another distributor.
And when I said low budget production I meant compared to their American equivalent (since this is the HK equivalent of an action movie based on a comic book).
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