Monday, December 14, 2009

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11:55 AM / Blu-ray / Comments3 Comments

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Un long dimanche de fiançailles (BD, Warner, Region B, France)

...probably better known to most English speakers as A Very Long Engagement, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou's second collaboration (the first, of course, being Amelie). Unusually for a Warner title, this uses the AVC codec (not VC-1) and is locked to Region B. It does, however, have full English subtitles for the feature, and the image quality looks pretty stellar.

 
3 Comments

1. Erik said:

"Unusually for a Warner title, this uses the AVC codec (not VC-1)"

Looks like Warner Europe has come to their senses, hopefully the US will follow (without going into the tired VC-1 vs. AVC debate).

(Posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 7:11 PM)

2. Anonymous said:

Warner Japan also uses AVC as with their release of Goemon, although unlike this it doesn't have English subtitles.

(Posted on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 2:54 AM)

3. ChuckZ said:

A CineVision PSE encoding fleet is certainly no slouch, but VC-1 is quickly becoming deprecated in favor of H.264. Even the new and upcoming 3-D standard for Blu-ray is H.264 only (MVC amendment).

(Posted on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 3:05 AM)

 
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