Son of a bitch!! 178mins long... Man... Getting it now, but man, at 1.85:1 with 3000kbit/sec, this is going to look like ass, and there's nothing anyone can do to improve it (unless you buy it).

Even the MPT version was pushing it bitrate wise (they had approx 3500kbit/sec)

What can you do. This might be the best version out there since it has the extended edition and no re-encoded menu. But the price is 15% less bitrate...

If anyone gets this on a big screen, please post your opinions. It will be a while before I get done D/ling Mr. 3000, Shark's Tale and Shall We Dance (which I will move to last place and allow Ray in there )

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Son of a bitch!! 178mins long... Man... Getting it now, but man, at 1.85:1 with 3000kbit/sec, this is going to look like ass, and there's nothing anyone can do to improve it (unless you buy it).

Even the MPT version was pushing it bitrate wise (they had approx 3500kbit/sec)

What can you do. This might be the best version out there since it has the extended edition and no re-encoded menu. But the price is 15% less bitrate...

If anyone gets this on a big screen, please post your opinions. It will be a while before I get done D/ling Mr. 3000, Shark's Tale and Shall We Dance (which I will move to last place and allow Ray in there )

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Originally posted by slurmman
I dont quite see a reason as to why they left both versions on the disk... if they took off the normal version, more resources could have been left to the extended version. who wants the normal cut anyway, when you can have the extended version?

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Well, the normal cut and the extended cut are from the same VOBs, just a different path it takes through the movie. So basically, the normal version here is free and takes very minimal on the disc, simply skipping the extended/extra scenes.

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Big ups to the UBER L33t amongst u. This has NOT pred on any sites that i'm on and thats all i'm saying. To those that have it congrats but MPT was good enough since i plan on buying the Limited Edition retail DVD this February 1st. If u can find it it sounds like bitrate takes a hit. I have a sample but i'm unsure of the source based on that it looks to be about the same quality as MPT however. Low bitrate long movie.


8/9/Waiting till Retail to watch the extended version. I'm just NOT L33T enough i guess.

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I rather get this version.

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Big ups to the UBER L33t amongst u. This has NOT pred on any sites that i'm on and thats all i'm saying. To those that have it congrats but MPT was good enough since i plan on buying the Limited Edition retail DVD this February 1st. If u can find it it sounds like bitrate takes a hit. I have a sample but i'm unsure of the source based on that it looks to be about the same quality as MPT however. Low bitrate long movie.


8/9/Waiting till Retail to watch the extended version. I'm just NOT L33T enough i guess.

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I didn't know it was a race to "who gets the release first"? If it makes you feel better, I never was able to find or get the Corrupt version of Alien vs. Predator...

But ya, I'll be buying the Limited edition from Blockbuster when it hits the $9.99 range For now, this one will have to do.

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I didn't know it was a race to "who gets the release first"? If it makes you feel better, I never was able to find or get the Corrupt version of Alien vs. Predator...

But ya, I'll be buying the Limited edition from Blockbuster when it hits the $9.99 range For now, this one will have to do.

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Well, I set up and watched this version tonight (the extended one) and man, I was not happy. This is a gripe with the actual retail DVD.

So, watching the movie and then the "extended scenes" come in. They are 4:3 with black bars. Of course I'm watching this on a 16x9 TV. So the screen pauses and gets cut down with bars on the side and bars on the top. After the scene was played, the picture returned back to normal. Poor ass video quality on the extended scenes too. Replica did a great job, but Universal did a shit ass job on the DVD.

I do understand why MPT kept only the theatrical. This was a let down unfortunately.

Good job to Replica, their heart was in the right place.

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This has NOT pred on any sites that i'm on and thats all i'm saying.


8/9/Waiting till Retail to watch the extended version. I'm just NOT L33T enough i guess.

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i was surprised how good this looked considering the length of the movie, good job Replica.

8/9/? movie looks good, i hope it meets my expectations!

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I just played the extended version on 3 different players as well as Power DVD. However the extended scenes do not appear. Looking at the VOBs I can see what the scenes are like but they do not play. Any idea if there is a fix for this?

Thanks

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I am having the same problem, from what I can see the subtitles stream for the extended version is empty. The note symbol that should appear and the extended content should be played. So the note symbol will never appear.

Would need the missing subs to be able to put the note back, but as to why the content is not played I can't understand maybe Replica have made some jump/call changes that have adjusted the GPRegs.

So this basically becomes the another release of Ray but with a lower bitrate. Cos the space was wasted on scenes that never appear.


Shame

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Really,really good release quality is top, movie is top well worth a look!!

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Well, I set up and watched this version tonight (the extended one) and man, I was not happy. This is a gripe with the actual retail DVD.

So, watching the movie and then the "extended scenes" come in. They are 4:3 with black bars. Of course I'm watching this on a 16x9 TV. So the screen pauses and gets cut down with bars on the side and bars on the top. After the scene was played, the picture returned back to normal. Poor ass video quality on the extended scenes too. Replica did a great job, but Universal did a shit ass job on the DVD.

I do understand why MPT kept only the theatrical. This was a let down unfortunately.

Good job to Replica, their heart was in the right place.

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Has anyone found a fix to play the "EXTENDED" scenes?

Can they be repaired with IfoEdit or a DVD authoring program?

Thanks in advance.

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