I'm starting this thread since it could be good if all the info is gathered in one place.
I will list here as I come across them all french localised titles masters I find. This will grow as it goes. Feel free to contribute. Also feel free to start threads for italian, german etc. copies if you live there and have HDTV access.
The idea is, since the advent of DVD, all localised versions are disappearing from the surface of the earth, but some survive on HDTV or licensed DVDs/BDs. Some of them also included french inserts like Dirty Harry, which has the insert of the newspaper Scorpio reads on the roof shot in several languages with different versions, each in it's own language, of the newspaper mock-up. This revisionism must stop and history must be preserved so please indicate here any localised version you know about and I'll add them to the master list.
DVDs original versions:
- Con Air (branching) R1 early Disney DVD
- Enemy of the stare R1 early Disney DVD
HDTV real original versions:
- Die Hard 2 (1990) French HDTV airings saved by fellow forumer here.
- Mission Impossible (1996) French HDTV airings. Original titles, not redux. Looks like the color timing is the original with tons of blue. Worth saving?
- MI:2 (2000) French HDTV airings. Original titles, not redux, also includes all intertitles cards in french.
- True Lies (1994) French HDTV airings look like original titles, but there might be two different versions running around. This is the 2.35:1 version.
HDTV doctored versions / recreations to avoid
- Terminator 1984 French HDTV airings. Title card is remade in horrible arial like font, from the old DVD Pal master which had the text free insert. Useless.
- Back to the Future
- Spider-Man 2
- The Warriors French HDTV redux titles but theatrical cut!
I will list here as I come across them all french localised titles masters I find. This will grow as it goes. Feel free to contribute. Also feel free to start threads for italian, german etc. copies if you live there and have HDTV access.
The idea is, since the advent of DVD, all localised versions are disappearing from the surface of the earth, but some survive on HDTV or licensed DVDs/BDs. Some of them also included french inserts like Dirty Harry, which has the insert of the newspaper Scorpio reads on the roof shot in several languages with different versions, each in it's own language, of the newspaper mock-up. This revisionism must stop and history must be preserved so please indicate here any localised version you know about and I'll add them to the master list.
DVDs original versions:
- Con Air (branching) R1 early Disney DVD
- Enemy of the stare R1 early Disney DVD
HDTV real original versions:
- Die Hard 2 (1990) French HDTV airings saved by fellow forumer here.
- Mission Impossible (1996) French HDTV airings. Original titles, not redux. Looks like the color timing is the original with tons of blue. Worth saving?
- MI:2 (2000) French HDTV airings. Original titles, not redux, also includes all intertitles cards in french.
- True Lies (1994) French HDTV airings look like original titles, but there might be two different versions running around. This is the 2.35:1 version.
HDTV doctored versions / recreations to avoid
- Terminator 1984 French HDTV airings. Title card is remade in horrible arial like font, from the old DVD Pal master which had the text free insert. Useless.
- Back to the Future
- Spider-Man 2
- The Warriors French HDTV redux titles but theatrical cut!
