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omg nice hehe....

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Just got the movie, and it looks Good Clean, and clear voice that is all i really care about anyways LOL

You can fit the total movie in one CD

" Worth downloading "


ok Good Job THXiSO

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Am i the only one that thinks this looks like a TC?

oh hell yeah...been waitin for this forever! nice quality too, nice vid a little blurry but very awesome, audio is very nice, wide screen is a bonus, mad props to thx! And wholy shit, a screener pre to theatre release in US! cant wait to see this flick!

9/9/?

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Originally posted by champmeister
Am i the only one that thinks this looks like a TC?

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hmm

81min

will this go onto 1xcd i wonder?

vid/8
audio/8
film/7

uhhh, this seems too blue for a vhs screener.. hrm

I just checked out the sample and I must say that the encode is good. Only complaints I have (about the source not the encode) is that the colors are kind of dull and tape looks jumpy. And I don't know if it's just me but is the audio extremely low except when keith sutherland talks then it's normal?! There is also a high pitched noise in the background, possibly a workprint but never-the-less a nice release for something this early. 7/5/10, great film!

Better than the other rls. The aspect ratio seems a little messed up. smaller than wide screen. Decent Video.
V - 6
A - 6
M - ?

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Originally posted by TRONS.NET
hmm

81min

will this go onto 1xcd i wonder?

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Nice enough. Weird AR though. Audio has a high-pitched whistle sound all the way through though.

Chop off the credits and throw it on 1CD. I can't help but have doubts about it's authenticity as a screener though.

6/7/9

surprising

wow thx u surprise me, this 'scr' is very early and in the sample it looks a little weird but watchable, the audio has some high buzz but when i turn the treble down it helps so i might be watching this one if CTP isn't doing the SVCD.TS over the weekend (which i hope)
congrats thx, nice early decent rls.

7.5/7/?

:)

i have seen the subbed svcd screener that THXiSO did release urlier so the source is realy from VHS.

2003-04-03 PHONE.BOOTH.2002.SCREENER.SVCD.SUBBED-THXISO

Fair enough. Well, i've put it on to 1CD and tested it. all works fine. Will do me nicely until the DVD arrives now.

Well, it's either see this with friends today or download the screener. Kinda dissapointed on the short length of the movie, but def will be seeing this today

time to get rid of the ESO TS...

After watching this release and already having watched the eso release, I can definitely say this copy is a workprint. All of the sound in the phone booth scene and the scenes around the streets of NYC are muted (not completely but muted non the less). Voices in scenes filmed at other locations are fine, music and sound effects are also ok, although the sound is still pretty low though. Some scene changes are different from the telesync and compared to mib's jpeg, this release is overly cropped much more than what was needed to be cropped out (the fox logo at the beginning proves it). 5/2/10, tsk tsk... I almost believed I something to archive, don't say I didn't try to warn yall.

Most of you guys are judging on the jpeg/short sample/label, and it's not 1CD MG... alot of you are going to be disappointed soon

sweet

nice quality 7/7/8 and whats even better is this doesnt even hit theatres untill tonight here in the states so a screener the same day as theatre rls is very sweet :-)

oh yeah and all on 1cd even sweeter

nice screener! well.. they released a screener of this before this 1... it had swedish subtitles.. this one is SAME source but the subtitles is removed.. u miss like 1CM at the bottom of the film.. but WHO cares?!.. just watched the movie with swedish subtitles and it kicked as!

a lot better than the other copy..nice job

7/7/9

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Yeah this is better than the other TS (of course its better, but the TS was still very good for that far ahead of a pre)...I was a little confused because they put it on 2 CDs when infact you can fit it on 1, its only 81 minutes long which is a plus. (I don't know if its missing any scenes like someone said above)

Video - Opened it up in WMP and it seemed very sharp, its been cropped but who cares? Very good video for a screener being released today...in case anyone at all is wondering, there is no watermarks or anything.

Audio - Seemed fine...nothing really to say bad about there...

Movie - I thought the movie was great, I seen it before from the ESO release and like it a lot...was pretty good and worth the watch...even worth paying for to see in the theatre

I'd say 7/7/9 also...good movie, I hope you guys release more stuff like this, especially this fast...although this movie has been released in the UK though which I forgot to take into consideration...

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Originally posted by XRavers
i have seen the subbed svcd screener that THXiSO did release urlier so the source is realy from VHS.

2003-04-03 PHONE.BOOTH.2002.SCREENER.SVCD.SUBBED-THXISO

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Great movie and this is a better release than the other on gj.
8/8/9.5

Badd Ass.. I Saw The Flick When ESO Rls'd Theres... The Video Was Very Good... Sound Was Great... Thanks For The SCR On OPENiNG DAY... Loved The Movie Itself, Collin Farrel And Kieffer Sutherland : What A Match... 7/7/9

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Excellent screener, and from a group that is new (?)

Great video and audio. Give this one a 9/9/8

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good

good quality...serves a 8/8/8

nicer than the eso ts except for the sound...but it'll tide me over till the dvd scr.

8/5/9

B162A

This guy is the only one telling the truth .
Sound is muted unless he is talking on the phone , even then its the other persons voice that comes out in true audio .
Thought it might have been the audio setup on my DVD player but obviously it's not .
Thanks

i heard sound is same on the source it came from maybe so it is on theaters ?

wow awsome rls the movie is suberb!


video:9 great picture a lil grainy
sound:10 awsome sound! it sounds so clear just the way i like em!
Movie: 100000! THE MOVIE WAS GRREAT! a bit too short though

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Just got the release i skimmed through the first cd and i dont see any problems good release 8/8/? i heard this is good i need to watch this

yeah after actually sitting down and watching it i can hear what u guys are talking about the audio is louder on some charatcers but didnt seem too much a problem 8/7/9 movie was great

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I wonder if this is bad audio conversion or bad source..my guess would be the first

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I think its a non-compliant vcd, the thing plays jerky as hell in my standalone and audio skips. even when i extract the mpg with vcd gear and pop it in nero, the reencode box comes up saying it is non compliant, anyways im gonna wait for a proper, when i looked at it on my pc it looked/sounded alright, only watched abit of each disc tho.

7/7/9

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i heard sound is same on the source it came from maybe so it is on theaters ?

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I couldn't watch the whole thing, The video is brilliant, nice, crystal and clear. The audio though, Collin Farrel is really really low, so you have to turn your TV up loud just to hear him whisper it, and then when someone else says something (Holmes for example) she speaks at normal sound level, so she's shouting cause your TV is up so loud!. (the audio is clear and stuff, just the muting of the main character..)

Had to give up watching it - couldn't do with the audio.

8/4/9 (movie rating based on ESO's release)

Update:: I put this on my other standalone downstairs, and the audio skips every half a second or so. I'll rip the mpeg and multiplex it to see if it fixes it later.

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Originally posted by K-FurY
I think its a non-compliant vcd, the thing plays jerky as hell in my standalone and audio skips. even when i extract the mpg with vcd gear and pop it in nero, the reencode box comes up saying it is non compliant, anyways im gonna wait for a proper, when i looked at it on my pc it looked/sounded alright, only watched abit of each disc tho.

7/7/9

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What language are those subtitles in?

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Ok people

i just watched it, it was great a perfect movie, a perfect release, just perfection
i did burn it on 2 cd's the way it should be
at the end there is about 10 minutes of credits that are usless and should have beeen editied out and have the movie on 1 cd
but thats just the way shit goes. if u cant afford to use the extra cd then u have problems of your own, and no i dont want to hear them!

phone booth thxiso

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Originally posted by B16A2
After watching this release and already having watched the eso release, I can definitely say this copy is a workprint. All of the sound in the phone booth scene and the scenes around the streets of NYC are muted (not completely but muted non the less). Voices in scenes filmed at other locations are fine, music and sound effects are also ok, although the sound is still pretty low though. Some scene changes are different from the telesync and compared to mib's jpeg, this release is overly cropped much more than what was needed to be cropped out (the fox logo at the beginning proves it). 5/2/10, tsk tsk... I almost believed I something to archive, don't say I didn't try to warn yall.

Most of you guys are judging on the jpeg/short sample/label, and it's not 1CD MG... alot of you are going to be disappointed soon

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Originally posted by CraZY8
i just watched it, it was great a perfect movie, a perfect release, just perfection

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video is pretty damn nice. i noticed at the fox logo that it was cropped a little, but upon watching the movie, i didnt feel like i was missing anything.

about the audio:

i extraced the mpeg's with isobuster and watched those. the audio was perfect, i didn't know what everyone was talking about.

then i tried to re-encode to ntsc (with several programs)...now i experienced what u guys were talking about...the guy in the booth's voice was VERY low and garble, but the 'sniper' voice was clear.

i have no idea if either of my dvd players can play PAL vcd's, because i've always re-encoded any pal videos i get into ntsc, so i guess this will be the guinne pig.

i have an idea as how to get correct audio in ntsc (if my player isn't PAL-compatable...im going to use an audio recorder and record the Stereo Mix of my sound card...in essence, playing the video and recording the sound coming from my audio card..and dubbing that onto an ntsc re-encode.

i'll post back with results.

as for the PAL:
6/8/10

Awesome Movie

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interesting results.

ok, so i figured i'd go ahead and burn the PAL.

sever interesting things happened.

1. Nero saw the video as 77 minutes (i joined the 2 mpeg's). However when the Write CD dialogue box came up, it now said the cd was 88 minutes, so i burned anyways. At about 96% done burning, the burn failed. i tried it anyways.

Playing the VCD:

2. it worked. So my player can play PAL. The audio was fine, so problems with the phone calls being garbled on one end.

3. on the computer, the 1st part ends at exactly 39 minutes. According to my dvd player, that scene is at 44:13

4. nearing the end of the movie, i was hoping that at least the movie worked properly. here's what happened. the narrator/caller said his end monologue, and the CGI kicked in, zooming through the phone, and out into space. it crashed here, not showing the stars, satellite or credits....Crash!

so whatever, i miss like 30 seconds at the end. i can live with it.

i still may try the real-time audio ripping theory tho.

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The video: was nice I give it a 8, the croping didnt bother me
The audio: when I first tried playing it through my reciever with optical cable the sound of colin farrell was low and muted like someone said before and it forced me to turn my volume up, then I tried playing it with just the tv speakers from the regular red and white audio cables hooked in and no reciever and I thought it sounded alot better so I watched it that way. I give audio a 8
Overall a great release

Just finished watching the movie.

The movie itself is ok.. i give it a 6/10.

the video was great for a VCD. I re-encoded it to NTSC and
joined the two files together to fit on a single CD.

the audio was decent.. some pops here and there, and the
voices were a little low, but nothing the volume button on my
remote control couldn't fix.

So:

Video : 7.0 - since the source was VHS, they could have done a better job, however still nice to get a nice watchable release.

Audio : 7 - cracks and pops were frequent enough to be annoying
and the low voice volume.

frak

While the picture looks fairly sharp and the sound isn't too bad, the fact that the entire picture is crammed into a little box is dis-heartening. I get the idea that half or close to half of the picture is missing. I could be wrong but if you have to cut off half of the picture to get rid of a few subs then you ought to leave the subs.
They don't really hurt the film any. Anyway, that is my 2 cents worth.

For all those people who can't understand the audio, are you guys using Apex DVD players? The discs work perfectly in my Marantz DVD player and on my computer, but I get that same low buzzy voice for the characters in the foreground when i put it in my Apex AD-1200.

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For all those people who can't understand the audio, are you guys using Apex DVD players? The discs work perfectly in my Marantz DVD player and on my computer, but I get that same low buzzy voice for the characters in the foreground when i put it in my Apex AD-1200.

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I've notice some complaints about the audio, but on both this rls and the telesync, I had problems with the audio big time. On both rls, played through my stand alone dvd player and Kenwood receiver, the audio goes back and forth between center and left/right chans, and seems to cut in and out. Both rls did it, which makes me wonder, and the only way I've have found to fix this is re-encode it. Has anyone had this problem besides me?

before re-encode:

8/4/?

After:

8/8/?

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No point in discussing the good picture quality since it's already been done to death here. As for this audio "problem", some people in this thread made me DREAD watching this release, to them I ask, are you crazy?! I sat through the god awful esoteric release with its near black and white picture, blockiness, sound pops, and hollowey nearly inaudible dialogue, and people are actually gonna bitch that you have to play with your volume like 3 times during the course of this screener? Yeah sure it shouldnt rise and drop like that, but I don't remember being turned off of the esoteric release as much as this one, in fact, if i remember correctly, people were giving mad props just cuz it was early. Well, the movie only came out 3 days ago here in theaters, and we got a screener. Chill out, or pay the $12.50
People who want to watch this release, ignore these sound issue freakouts and check it for yourself, it's a good release. Also, I watched it in my Apex with zero problems, never heard any pops as someone else mentioned, and it didnt crap out just before the end credits.

8/8/9

watched this last night finally, and it is a great movie, and the quality is just as good.

no audio problems, i found the phone booth scenes clear as well as the video.

overall 8/8/9

Great Release!

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The only people who have problems are people with more then 2 speakers or surround sound ....... All you have to do is drop the sound to 2speakers instead of 4 or 5.1 and the sound problem will be fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The only people who have problems are people with more then 2 speakers or surround sound ....... All you have to do is drop the sound to 2speakers instead of 4 or 5.1 and the sound problem will be fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Let me rephrase it then..... I am using surround sound, 5.1 settings in Power DVD...I could not hear the sounds around the streets of NY in the movie, only the telephone calls were loud and clear....By switching the settings in Power DVD to 2 speakers, dolby compatible all the sounds worked perfect...now as for standalones DVD players i dont know..


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wow,either i'm the only one that actually watched this release OR all of you are on crack the ending was missing on cd2 for me cut out SPOLIER REMOVED which is not the ending there was like 5 minutes left after that,and it's doubtful that one can have the hole ending and not the other and its not the ts by eso because i have both releases other then that nice release..

then you got a bad copy cause the movie is full..watched it twice even the full credits

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I'm playing this on my apex 1500 and have been having the same problem (lower voice on main character). I found that by pressing the l/r button on my remote and switching the audio from stereo to either left or right, it makes the audio much more level.

Maybe something to do with the pal conversion makes it play better in mono than stereo?

watched this and thought it was a great movie definately recommend this to anyone good quality a little low sound but u can turn it up :P otherwise no more problems great movie 9/7/10

considering the speed of this release it is excellent...the screen size was a litttle small, but very watchable...Great film also

7/9/9

Ah movies in the same setting for the entire time usually don't impress me...... The same goes for this one.

The picture quality was ok a little fuzzy and blue

The sound was not bad a little more loud for one of the characters.

A definite "Watchable" movie

Audio is not good. My JVC plays both PAL and NTSC. Burned as PAL and played on the JVC and got the low audio for most of the movie. Then I converted to NTSC , burned and played again on the DVD player. Same low audio.I have a second DVD player in the house and I have the same low level audio. As long as there is no other noise in the house, then maybe you can watch this movie. It's really hard to hear it. And you don't want to be watching it if other people are trying to sleep. Because the people on the street will be talking softly and you have to crank up the sound. All of a sudden the phone operators and the sniper will talk and they are essentially yelling out of the TV.

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Audio is not good. My JVC plays both PAL and NTSC. Burned as PAL and played on the JVC and got the low audio for most of the movie. Then I converted to NTSC , burned and played again on the DVD player. Same low audio.I have a second DVD player in the house and I have the same low level audio. As long as there is no other noise in the house, then maybe you can watch this movie. It's really hard to hear it. And you don't want to be watching it if other people are trying to sleep. Because the people on the street will be talking softly and you have to crank up the sound. All of a sudden the phone operators and the sniper will talk and they are essentially yelling out of the TV.

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I watched this on my computer when it first came out.. But then I tired to burn it to watch it on my standalone and it came up in nero as non compliant so I couldnt fit both parts on one CD.. I clipped the credits and everything.

I eventually just burned it on two disks becuase I gave up.. Anyone else have this problem?

I can't believe no one here can figure out the audio "problem"

Here it is ..

if you listen to this rls on a 5 speaker system, what you are hearing through the front mains are the background/street noises, incedental phone conversations etc. .. the rear surrounds have the main dialogue, thus making it very difficult to listen to.

example:when Colin is on the phone in the beginning of the film, his voice is emitting from the rear while the person on the other end of the call is in the front. IT SHOULD BE OPPOSITE AND WHOEVER ENCODED THIS RLS FUKKED UP THE AUDIO

THE FIX (which isn't really a fix but makes it listenable): set your DVD player or HTS to stereo and get rid of any multi-speaker config for this rls.

Simple..the group should figure out their mistake..and repack

This is their first release and first impressions are always the most important no matter what your talking about..these guys better get a better ripper or read some docs on how to rip cause this encoded audio bites

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I recently finished watching this release and I have to say that the video is excellent (but, it looks like they cropped off some of the bottom to get rid or a serial or a counter) and the sound is not all that bad, (at least if you are using stereo speakers instead of surround) because at first the audio sounds really screwed up, but you get used to it and I hardly noticed it at all towards the end. By the way, the movie is excellent, if you haven't seen it yet, I highly reccomend it!

8/6.5/9

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I can't believe no one here can figure out the audio "problem"

Here it is ..

if you listen to this rls on a 5 speaker system, what you are hearing through the front mains are the background/street noises, incedental phone conversations etc. .. the rear surrounds have the main dialogue, thus making it very difficult to listen to.

example:when Colin is on the phone in the beginning of the film, his voice is emitting from the rear while the person on the other end of the call is in the front. IT SHOULD BE OPPOSITE AND WHOEVER ENCODED THIS RLS FUKKED UP THE AUDIO

THE FIX (which isn't really a fix but makes it listenable): set your DVD player or HTS to stereo and get rid of any multi-speaker config for this rls.

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Yeah the movie was pretty badass, IMO. The stereo trick worked thanks BONE. This is pretty good quality. I dont care about minor cropping... TS's are usually 10-40% of original picture cut off, so you cant complain. I think it is a pretty decent release, other than the fucked up sound.
7/6/7

I downloaded this but it will not burn just keeps telling me to put a CD in the burner. Has anyone else had this problem? How do I fix it?

Zen

Excellent Movie .. the quality v.good aswell

i watched this a couple of days ago and i noticed something ;

when colin farell is talking to someone from the phone booth and they appear in a small box in the corner of the screen (Ex - his wife at work, the girl he calls (katie holmes) ), we do not hear their voices at all. i turned my speakers all the way up to try to hear, and i messed around with the settings of my surround sound, but it seems to me that these voices are completely muted.

i thought maybe this was done in the movie for some type of effect because its still dramatic to not hear what the other person is saying...but when i saw it in theatres i heard their voices loud and clear. soo im concluding that thxiso fucked up pretty bad on this one !

but anyways, the movie still looks great on my tv and the audio is pretty decent too (Except for the small problem) so props to thxiso for that.

8/7/8

I watched this film this morning and found it to be a good worth while release, i only put it on to check the quality etc but ended up watching the whole film, i didnt have my surround speaker system set up so i cant say about the audio problem, it was fine in stereo just had to turn it right up.
i won't watch crap cams and this was one of the films that i have watched all the way through.
good release just wish they left it as it was without cropping.

Audio was low for the whole movie and cuts out of the right channel entirely a couple times in disc two. Video was, eh, VHS-y. Good film, though.

7/7/8

I watch the MPEGs, btw -- I don't burn.