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(Posted on Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:19 PM)

The UK release looks pretty good to me, and its ABC which is good for any importers. Any problems with any of the extras on the disc, being region B only?

(Posted on Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:42 PM)

I'm kind of confused about "Fight Club" on BD in the US, 'cos I thought they had come out with a BD late last year, and then another just a few months ago—yet this latter one I now can't find information on besides a blank Amazon.com listing.

Wasn't sure if the transfer was any good, so I passed on it. Since these are both handled by 20th Century Fox, I'd assume it's the same transfer.

(Posted on Friday, September 3, 2010 at 5:50 AM)

lol, thx man!! :)
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

(Posted on Friday, September 3, 2010 at 10:00 AM)

I had thought there was—maybe because of this listing:

http://www.amazon.com/Fight-Club-Ws-Blu-ray/dp/B003BZXHWO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1283515157&sr=8-2

(It's found when typing "fight club blu".)

But at the time I remember it being a more fleshed out page with cover art and such.

There's a mention of it on allmovie:

http://www.allmovie.com/dvd/fight-club-237781

I'm seeing other Fox BDs re-released the same day, all mentioning "with IRC" after the title. What IRC stands for in this case, I don't know.

I just figured, for some reason, that the old transfer may have been bad, and a new one was being released.

Using Google's shopping search, DVDMagnet.com is the only result when searching "fight club with irc". http://www.dvdmagnet.com/product_details.php?&fight%20club&upc=024543685500&Fight-Club-Ws-[Blu-ray] It shows the same cover as the 10th Anniversary Edition, so...yeah. Confused. And now you can barely find this "new" Blu-ray "with IRC" that came out in April.

(Posted on Friday, September 3, 2010 at 1:18 PM)

I think "IRC" is retail code for "Instantly Redeemable Coupon" - i.e. a coupon sticker on the case/slipcover that can be redeemed at the point of sale. Amazon accidentally lists these sometimes, but they are usually taken down since they are only really appropriate for brick-and-mortar stores. Another common one you will see is "MCSH" for "Movie Cash".

Both of these are usually limited time offers that show up and then disappear again once the offer has expired or stock has run out. It definitely can be confusing since they usually get issued new UPC and release dates.

(Posted on Friday, September 3, 2010 at 10:06 PM)

I remember reading online and seeing some screencaps of The Siege at AVS forums sometime last year, one was the American release and the other came from Brazil, i think they were both released by Fox in those territories but the encoding job on the Brazil release was much better and it was more detailed, not sure if the American release had some minor degraining done to it, can't remember but they came from the same transfer.

I know the original 1974 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is another likely to have come from the same master but screencaps i have seen at capaholics suggests to me that the UK release looks to have some clear compression issues, i see the same thing with City Of The Living Dead.

I guess my point is that although the same transfer can be used, sometimes the encoding and compression on the disc can be better in some of the different release territories.

That new version of Fight Club looks much superior than the old one, i wish i was more a fan of the film but although it's ok i prefer Fincher's Se7en.

(Posted on Friday, September 3, 2010 at 10:44 PM)

Kinowelt will release a new Blu-ray from the new master in November 2010.

(Posted on Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 12:41 AM)

Chris: Ah. Thanks for the explanation (it sounds sound, so I'll go with it). Damn, now I wish I had picked up "Fight Club" when I saw it for like seven bucks or something real cheap.

FoxyMulder: Both the US and UK BDs of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" indeed come from the same master supervised by Don May, Jr. He's credited on the backs of both cases as "Restoration Consultant." That one really showed me just HOW different encodes can achieve vastly varying results. However, I'm not sure what compression issues you mean in relation to the UK disc (though I don't really notice that kind of stuff unless it's really bad). I own both releases (the UK disc will play on a Region A player, by the way), and I far prefer the UK one. So much richer in color and detail; it looks far more like I'd imagine a 16mm print from that era would look. The reds are a bit more orangish, but I think this too was likely an accurate recreation of the original elements. And unlike the US release, it has grain! The US disc's image is so badly noise reduced.

(Posted on Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 7:58 AM)

Perhaps screencaps do not give the whole story with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, from the ones at capaholics i thought the darker lit scenes showed compression problems with the image on the UK disc but it did look to have a little more grain intact.

http://www.caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/index.php?art=full&image=9&vergleich=texas_chain_saw_massacre_bd2&action=1#vergleich

Look at that screencap above and i see compression blocking on leatherface's jacket, quite bad too, now i'm unsure if i would see that on my projector, maybe its because i'm viewing on a computer monitor and maybe it would not be noticeable or look so bad under calibrated conditions.

(Posted on Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 8:32 PM)

Ah, yeah, I see what you mean. I didn't notice anything like that while watching, so it either doesn't happen much, or I'm just not very eagle-eyed. Perhaps the next time I watch it I'll look specifically for such compression issues.

(Posted on Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 9:51 AM)

Is the UK version uncut?

(Posted on Monday, September 27, 2010 at 9:03 AM)