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Jameson281	Sony licenses 250 titles to Mill Creek	Lead	[-]
Apr 24 12 2:40 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In another sign that they've almost totally given up on home video, Sony has licensed 250 titles to Mill Creek: http://www.homemediamagazine.com/studios/mill-creek-licenses-250-sony-titles-27050 With the studios making deals with Mill Creek, Twilight Time, Image, Shout, etc., I'm reminded of the dying days of laserdisc, when the studios all abandoned the format and just let Image essentially take over and put out everything.
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Van Helsing 1958		#1	[-]
Apr 24 12 3:05 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Will they have the Mill Creek logo appearing throughout the films?!!!!!
Dale Sherman		#2	[-]
Apr 24 12 4:32 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rats! At least with Sony they would bother with closed-captioning/English subtitles on their releases. Anything through Mill Creek I might as well give up on ever watching, as they won't bother. It's like the Olive deal with Paramount (who would caption everything they would release ... but will let Olive release material without it). Hate these types of announcements.
HalLane		#3	[-]
Apr 24 12 6:09 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Mill Creek does BluRay? I only know them from those cheap pd 50 packs. Perhaps they will get into some closed captioning after all.
MacXoftheMounted		#4	[-]
Apr 24 12 6:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	They did the Gamera releases, I think. MacXoftheMounted.....................formerly known as Professor Von X
Lawrence Fechtenberger		#5	[-]
Apr 24 12 6:30 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For about a year now, Mill Creek has been releasing Disney B-titles (V.I. WARSHAWSKI, BETSY'S WEDDING, the remake of D.O.A., etc.) on Blu-Ray. From what I have read and heard, these look okay--but, yes, they lack subtitles. It should be remembered that Mill Creek will be working with the transfers provided to them by Sony, so their releases of public domain material really do not provide any sort of guide how these will look.
Paul Denham		#6	[-]
Apr 24 12 7:23 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	But Sony probably won't be doing the actual encodes for these- Mill Creek will. Great masters are one thing- but the final presentation could still be hobbled by indifferent, low bit rate encodes. Could be great news, or it could be a disaster. We'll have to wait till they show up to know for sure.
Rakshasa		#7	[-]
Apr 24 12 7:41 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	From the brief article - “We’re going to do a lot of things where we package titles together by star, like Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal, and in other cases we’ll do that by genre. That’s been our bread and butter with DVD for a long time, and now we get to do that with Blu-ray.” - Jeff Hayne, VP of content acquisition for Mill Creek Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
Lawrence Fechtenberger		#8	[-]
Apr 24 12 8:18 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	On another forum I saw someone hoping that Mill Creek will release the original FRIGHT NIGHT on Blu-Ray, now that the Twilight Time edition has sold out. In case anyone here is harboring the same hope, forget it. Twilight Time has said that its deal with Sony gave it exclusive Blu-Ray rights to the title for three years, so obviously this film was not included in the package that Sony sold to Mill Creek. Maybe it will be in the next package, but it cannot be in this one.
Wich2		#9	[-]
Apr 24 12 9:17 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>Great masters are one thing- but the final presentation could still be hobbled by indifferent, low bit rate encodes.< That's my fear, Paul. Hey, in the VHS era GoodTimes had some good titles & good prints - but the LP and SLP Mode didn't do them justice.
Camps		#10	[-]
Apr 24 12 9:31 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Say wha...??! It sure is a new era.... Needless to say, I'm brimming with questions, among them: Price? Quality? Frequency? Will pre-'60s titles be included? What does this mean for the Sony Archive MOD program? Frankly if it means unearthing classics that haven't already been released on home vid, nor aired regularly on TCM, that's not a bad thing...
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Rakshasa		#11	[-]
Apr 24 12 10:03 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Camps wrote: Frankly if it means unearthing classics.... With collections featuring the likes of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal, I don't know... Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
WalesGuy		#12	[-]
Apr 24 12 11:59 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	None of those titles in the first link mean anything to me. Pity they didn't list the 250 titles.
pulp novelties		#13	[-]
Apr 24 12 12:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm gonna go out on a limb early and say that I think this is a good thing. There are many movies I'd simply like an HD presentation of at a reasonable price, I have extras on DVD, and trivia is so accessible online, that it's become a natural part of my viewing habit anyway. Twilight Time has stated that they are provided the HD masters, and do no mastering themselves, I'm sure this will also be the case with Mill Creek. Though bit-rates decisions may have some effect on the quality of what Mill Creek puts out, I suspect they'll do an adequate job. I wish MGM would make a similar deal, then maybe we could get fun multi-movie packs of the old AIP and arthouse titles of the 60's and 70's.
Professor X		#14	[-]
Apr 24 12 12:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jameson281 wrote: In another sign that they've almost totally given up on home video, Sony has licensed 250 titles to Mill Creek: http://www.homemediamagazine.com/studios/mill-creek-licenses-250-sony-titles-27050 With the studios making deals with Mill Creek, Twilight Time, Image, Shout, etc., I'm reminded of the dying days of laserdisc, when the studios all abandoned the format and just let Image essentially take over and put out everything. If the company that created Blu-Ray is giving up on the format, then the format itself is probably dead.
Rakshasa		#15	[-]
Apr 24 12 12:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Professor X wrote: If the company that created Blu-Ray is giving up on the format, then the format itself is probably dead. Well now, isn't that a kick in the trousers?! Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
pulp novelties		#16	[-]
Apr 24 12 12:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Professor X wrote: Jameson281 wrote: In another sign that they've almost totally given up on home video, Sony has licensed 250 titles to Mill Creek: http://www.homemediamagazine.com/studios/mill-creek-licenses-250-sony-titles-27050 With the studios making deals with Mill Creek, Twilight Time, Image, Shout, etc., I'm reminded of the dying days of laserdisc, when the studios all abandoned the format and just let Image essentially take over and put out everything. If the company that created Blu-Ray is giving up on the format, then the format itself is probably dead. ? There is a difference between electronics and software. Sony never pushed Blu-ray solely as means to release all their movie holdings, though I'm sure they would have liked to do both. In relative terms, 250 titles is a small number of their holdings. With the names Steven Seagal, and Jean Claude Van Damme bubbling up, it seems like they signed over a lot of dead-in-the-water 80's crap that's been haunting cut-out bins for the last decade. I only hope there are some redeeming titles in the lot. I think studios have become media-phobic in general. So really it's a good thing they're signing over there stuff to companies that are happy to get it, and in turn to consumers who are happy to get it.
Lawrence Fechtenberger		#17	[-]
Apr 24 12 12:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I would call this good news simply because the alternative is, probably, nothing. The complaints I have seen in other forums have all come from people who are comparing the probable Mill Creek editions--bare bones, corners cut wherever possible--with the editions of their dreams. Realistically, however, and to the extent that we can extrapolate from the meager data presented so far, we can assume that, had Sony not made this deal, then they might have kept in print a few of the better selling titles in this package, maybe one or two dozen would have gone to Twilight Time, and just possibly four or five would have been licensed to Criterion. As for the rest, the ones that are in print would have gone out of print, the ones that are already out of print would have stayed that way, and the ones that have not yet released would never be. In other words, this deal is not going to leave us worse off than we would otherwise be, and we just might be a little better off than we were before (a decent Blu-Ray of THE LAST DETAIL would be enough to accomplish that).
Domenick Fraumeni		#18	[-]
Apr 24 12 1:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Mill Creek? Geez. Yeah, their prices are great, if you like DVD quality on Blu Ray. First month, I thought this was great. Until I saw the actual transfers. Based on their Miramax releases, you might as well hold on to your DVD. Movies released with 2.0 stereo, where 5.1 tracks exist on the DVD. Forget about uncompressed sound, for the most part. Transfers done for HDTV, and cropped from 2.35 to to 1.85. No extras. Not even commentary tracks. Unlike the comparable DVD releases, for the most part.
HalLane		#19	[-]
Apr 24 12 1:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Lawrence Fechtenberger wrote: The complaints I have seen in other forums have all come from people who are comparing the probable Mill Creek editions--bare bones, corners cut wherever possible--with the editions of their dreams. Do people dream of Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme? Well, maybe androids do.
pulp novelties		#20	[-]
Apr 24 12 2:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	HalLane wrote: Lawrence Fechtenberger wrote: The complaints I have seen in other forums have all come from people who are comparing the probable Mill Creek editions--bare bones, corners cut wherever possible--with the editions of their dreams. Do people dream of Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme? Well, maybe androids do. That's what I was thinking. One can only hope there are other desirable titles. Mill Creek is basically just a conduit for getting re-existing masters put out on platters, with cover-art designed to snag the unwary fly. They're no better or worse than Alpha. Actually, they're better than Alpha in that you get more movies per buck. I'm sure Sony will provide them with masters they've carefully prepared for TV an download, and they will slap them down-and-dirty on to disc at a digestible price. Sounds good to me since I'm sure these were probably titles not likely to get the red carpet any other way. Hopefully others will follow suit, I'd rather have a Mill Creek Blu-ray three-pack for $14.95 than a single Sony MOD DVD-R for $20. Times have changed, the days of studios putting a big effort on catalog titles are over, and I'd argue that it's not the popularity of Blu-ray that's the problem, but the waning appeal of owning catalog in general. Besides, I thought I've read that Gamera fans were reasonably happy with those Mill Creek Blu-rays. No?
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