Shout Factory acquires Golden Princess library

[dvdmike]

As long as I get a OCN 4k Killer with a good encode and no Rovata grade I will be happy

[CSchmidlapp]

Just thinking out loud here and someone correct me if I'm wrong.

A Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy has a remaster BD release (Maybe two different transfers?)
City on Fire has a remastered BD release
Prison on Fire Series has a HD release I think

I don't think these have HD releases.
I think a German label released SD upscales under a remastered banner, maybe even bootlegs.

[PDB]

Just thinking out loud here and someone correct me if I'm wrong.

A Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy has a remaster BD release (Maybe two different transfers?)
City on Fire has a remastered BD release
Prison on Fire Series has a HD release I think

I don't think these have HD releases.
I think a German label released SD upscales under a remastered banner, maybe even bootlegs.

Good to know, thanks CSchmidlapp

Prison: I didn't know, I was just told that by someone that the two got a remaster.
ACGS Trilogy: I compared the old upscaled FS HK BD and the "remasters" and they looked different. Need to find that old BD to compare again.
COF: was this the German upscale? Need to look at it tonight haven't watched it.

[CSchmidlapp]

Good to know, thanks CSchmidlapp

Prison: I didn't know, I was just told that by someone that the two got a remaster.
ACGS Trilogy: I compared the old upscaled FS HK BD and the "remasters" and they looked different. Need to find that old BD to compare again.
COF: was this the German upscale? Need to look at it tonight haven't watched it.

I think these were all releasd fairly recently on the same label, 'Cargo Records' in Germany.
They released The Killer and Hard Boiled as well.
As far as I know there unofficial bootlegs and the company is registered as a florist!
@MrBrown I think you gave this information to me?

Its a guess your refering to these though, and Ive not seen them personally.

City on Fire


A Chinese Ghost Story


Ive not come across any other releases on my travels, but maybe ive missed them.
Let us know when you have a look see at what you have.

[Serums]

I'm not sure that ABT II and III were remastered, just the first one. Or if they were they might not have been released yet.

[CSchmidlapp]

Has everyone taken a look at the World Cinema Library label UHD releases of A Better Tomorrow and Once a Thief?





Thumbs were created using MadVr tonemapping at 180nits.

[PDB]

City on Fire


A Chinese Ghost Story


Ive not come across any other releases on my travels, but maybe ive missed them.
Let us know when you have a look see at what you have.

The City on Fire is the same one as you posted, bummer it's an upscale. The Ghost Story that I have does have a different color timing although it doesn't look good.

https://imgur.com/t5rEcXz

Both ACGS appear to be upscales. Odd about the color. I guess the Germans did a color pass on the upscale.

[zoidberg]

I had no idea there was a blu of Once a Thief all these years. I'll have to look into that.
I was always under the impression that ABT was Ritrovata's first restoration of a Woo title. I think the Japanese blu of Hard Boiled was a pretty straight scan with minimal work done, it's fairly noisy as well. I always thought the master was the basis of the Dragon Dynasty blu ray but I may be wrong on that.