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As one of the higher profile titles I agree that’s possible - but for the niche titles OliverK was discussing, not as cut and dried.

I don’t really think it’s so much a question of “care” or “not care” but just the unfortunate practical reality that those titles can cost six figures or more to fully restore and master for home video, while the revenue potential for a Blu-ray release is more likely to be in the four to low...

It’s true that Robert Harris indicated in the past that outside entities had expressed interest in contributing financing for restorative work on the roadshow version. What wasn’t discussed was what the terms of said financing would be. People and corporate entities rarely give away money for...

Agreed! MGM doesn’t seem interested in making a deluxe release themselves, so I applaud Koch taking the initiative to create something that approximates the longer version.

The Koch release of the longer version is a mixture of MGM’s HD master of the shorter general release version, combined with bits and pieces of the standard definition laserdisc master made decades ago. It was finalized at 720p resolution, with the shorter version being downscaled from 1080p...

It’s really a wonderful thing to go region free - there are tons of good discs coming out in Region B that may never get Region A counterparts, and it just opens up a whole new world of possibilities when you can get the movies you want regardless of where they’re from. May it bring you many...

Sure thing - looks like the price went up a bit since I got mine but here’s one example of the type of kit I have...

In my experience, my regular Amazon.com American account works fine on the Amazon.de site and there’s no hassle with going through customs or anything ordering - it’s just the same as ordering from anywhere else. The region thing will be an issue, though - it’s a Region B locked release and...

For anyone who may be interested, I’m selling my copy of the German edition on the HTF for sale section: https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/fs-the-alamo-1960-german-limited-edition-with-extended-cut.376305/

They’ve licensed it out in multiple international territories and made it available for digital rental and purchase domestically.

It looks like Koch created that version by cutting the extended bits from the ancient laserdisc master into the HD master of the shorter version. I hate to be negative but I’ve got a copy and it doesn’t look as good as you might have been led to believe. But Koch did the work and that may not be...

I don’t understand what’s confusing about that. They’re not interested in titles when the price point for licensing/mastering/authoring is more than they think they can recoup, and they are interested when the price point does fall within their projections for what they can make. It’s no...

Those differences ultimately come into play after the creation of a master that’s used to make the disc - so whether it was CAV or CLV, it was still being sourced from the same master.

PM me if you decide to do it, I’d be interested in buying, either your Amazon copy or the other (no preference if disc content is the same).

I would have purchased the German version if I had been in a position to do so when it had been released. I’m more interested in seeing it than owning it, so if any of our members might be willing to loan it out once they’ve given it a spin, PM me and perhaps we can work something out for a loan :)

Perfect - so what worked for me on other similar mixes (I don’t have this disc yet and not even a good reason for why not), switch your player to LPCM. It’ll decode from DTS-HD MA to PCM on your player, and your Onkyo should have no problem applying ProLogic to the PCM signal.

Sounds exactly like my Onkyo. What player output options do you have for audio?

Is it DTS-HD MA by chance? My receiver has this weird quirk where it’ll run anything you want through prologic except DTS-HD MA 2.0 tracks - they come through as L/R stereo no matter what. For those titles I have to set my Oppo to decode rather than bitstream.

Every time I buy a western from Koch in Germany, it seems to come out from Kino in the States about a year later.

A 4x3 letterboxed master by definition cannot be anamorphic. On widescreen TVs, it will appear as having black bars on all four sides of the image. I do agree that it will likely look ever so slightly better than the laserdisc because modern codecs and compression will do a better job of...

The extended cut is from the same 4x3 letterboxed standard definition master used on the laserdisc, according to the press release.

Man, I remember that group - those were the days.

South Pacific is a good example. The trims made to the roadshow version now only exist in a surviving print which has long since gone pink. Fox included those scenes in a bonus roadshow version on their DVD edition, and included the same standard definition master of the longer cut on their...

It was never lost. The footage was cut from the film by Kubrick after seeing how the film played with audiences over its first handful of screenings; it was gone by the second week and certainly long before it went wide. There was a semi-big to-do several years ago over the disclosure that the...