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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby TheXFilter » Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:33 am

Perfect!! Thanks a lot!!
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Emperor5353 » Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:07 pm

Here is some screen captures from Godzilla VS Mothra...these are from the Madman dvd's


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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby wataru » Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:25 pm

Those arent bad.
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Tamura » Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:28 pm

Looks exactly like the Toho transfer that has monopolized the market.
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Emperor5353 » Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:58 pm

I am extremely pleased with the picture quality of these dvds
I have the Showa Vol 2 coming this week....
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Rockzilla » Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:31 pm

Tamura wrote:
Rockzilla wrote:Theoretically everything from Madman should look better than our region 1 dvds since PAL is a higher resolution format than NTSC.


They are upscales of Toho Video's mediocre NTSC versions, so no.




I was unaware that Madman used Toho's transfers for the Showa films since I don't have any of those. I figured they used them for the heisei series, but they still look better than those compressed "hd" rips floating around. Although I think for some reason the Heisei peroid films will never look as clean as the Showa or Millenium films.
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby TheXFilter » Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:15 pm

Thanks Emperor5353 for the captures!! looks great!
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby RyanClark » Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:18 pm

Emperor5353 wrote:Here is some screen captures from Godzilla VS Mothra...these are from the Madman dvd's


It's also important to note that, as evident from the subs, those are only from the Japanese version. I believe the US version on Madman's release was fullscreen only, so hopefully no one buys it assuming the US version is widescreen. I think this is also the case with their release of INVASION OF ASTRO-MONSTER.
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Goji » Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:12 am

Wow, so even Madman's release of GODZILLA VS. THE THING isn't in the proper AR? I guess in this case (along with MONSTER ZERO), they were too lazy to even do recreations like what CM did.

I'm surprised by the amount of enthusiasm here. Those screen caps look pretty damn lackluster...just like Toho's R2's in general.
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Rockzilla » Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:15 am

Actually their version of Invasion of Astro-Monster doesn't have the English dub at all.

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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Goji » Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:16 am

Wow, that makes it even more pointless than it already was.
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Ethan » Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:41 am

I'm still baffled that Simitar had access to Godzilla vs. the Thing and Monster Zero in their proper aspect ratios, and even had the Transworld logo for Godzilla, King of the Monsters. What where their sources, and why couldn't subsequent releases (aside from Criterion's) use them?
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby RyanClark » Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:21 pm

Ethan wrote:I'm still baffled that Simitar had access to Godzilla vs. the Thing and Monster Zero in their proper aspect ratios, and even had the Transworld logo for Godzilla, King of the Monsters. What where their sources, and why couldn't subsequent releases (aside from Criterion's) use them?


I'm not completely sure on this, but I think this was mentioned back when they originally came out. Supposedly they had the same widescreen copy of GODZILLA VS. THE THING that Simitar had, but but chose the cropped MonstersHD version because it looked better condition/color-wise.
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Emperor5353 » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:51 pm

I just got the Volume 2 Showa set from Madman today..thought I'd share some caps from Godzilla vs Megalon

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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Goji » Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:39 pm

Why is it so incredibly devoid of color? I don't remember the R2 looking quite this bland..
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Tamura » Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:29 pm

These dull transfers inspired me to approximate what a few films would look like when put through Toho Video's "shit filter":

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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Proofpoochie » Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:50 pm

^ Those look exactly like Toho's ugly transfers.
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Tamura » Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:57 pm

I will give them some credit... a few DVDs by them like LATITUDE ZERO and THE LAST DINOSAUR look very good. Everything else, though... blech. The rest don't even look like normal DVDs.
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Rockzilla » Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:56 am

Lol did you photoshop those? They look like legit Toho dvds.
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Re: Madman DVDs

Postby Tamura » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:56 pm

I did those in Final Cut Pro. If I had the right knowledge, I'd make a plugin of the effect.
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