Imagica / King Records
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Wednesday 04th April 2018, 11:26:47 PM
| | Label: Imagica Entertainment / King Records (Japan)
| Region: 2 | RCE protection: No | Copyright protection system: CSS / CPPM
| Disc type: DVD5 (the data occupy 4.27 GB)
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:26:42.15
| Video: NTSC (fieldblended from PAL source) | Aspect ratio: 1.84:1 non-anamorphic |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.63 / 6.19 / 9.76 Mbps
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Audio: | English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 192 kbps Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 192 kbps
| Subtitles: | Japanese
| Menus available in: | Japanese & English
| | Special features: |
- Biographies & filmographies (1 page each, in Japanese)
- Staff
- Giulio Questi, Franco Arcalli, Dario Di Palma & Bruno Maderna
- Cast
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gina Lollobrigida, Eva Aulin & Jean Sobieski
- Flyer article (12 pages, in Japanese)
- Poster gallery (11 pages)
- Trailer (3:48, in Italian)
4-page booklet (in Japanese)
| Notes: | There's nothing I can say about this DVD, that hasn't already been mentioned in Michael Mackenzie's review over at DVDTimes. Nevertheless, let me show you a few examples of the issues he points out. First, the interlaced / non-anamorphic transfer of the feature presentation vs. the progressive / anamorphic trailer (note that the latter uses a different shot for every scene, which makes a direct comparison impossible):
| 26539 / 1590 | 42623 / 2082 | 55140 / 5775 | 57451 / 2261
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Regarding the extra shots in the trailer - an issue I myself fussed about in the review of " Der Rächer" - I think this might be a common practice, and does not necessarily mean the film is cut:
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About the framing, it seems indeed a bit tight. Michael suggests that the film might have originally been exhibited in a wider aspect ratio. On the other hand, the cramped head-space (particularly visible when compared with the below bootleg DVD+R release framed at 1.71:1) suggests that the intended ratio was perhaps closer to 1.66:1, an AR not uncommon for the gialli from that period:
| 13176 / 10818 | 61122 / 50805
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And now, to conclude this review, here's a lil'something for my friend tomiisek, a great admirer of Jean-Louis Trintignant: ;-)
| 21906 / 18100
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*difference between channels is -75.04 dB (0.02 %), resp. -74.55 dB (0.02 %) |
VHS Port
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Wednesday 04th April 2018, 11:26:47 PM
| | Label: n/a
| Region: n/a | RCE protection: n/a | Copyright protection system: n/a
| Disc type: DVD+R5 (the data occupy 2.95 GB)
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:26:50.22
| Video: PAL | Aspect ratio: 1.71:1 non-anamorphic |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 2.63 / 4.45 / 9.17 Mbps
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Audio: | Italian MPEG-1 Layer 2 2.0 mono* / 256 kbps
| Subtitles: | None
| Menus available in: | None
| | Special features: | None
| Notes: | This is a VHS-to-DVD+R port of "La morte ha fatto l'uovo." Its purpose here is to provide a kind of reference for the Japanese DVD release reviewed above.
*difference between channels is -52.37 dB (0.24 %) |
Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Wednesday 04th April 2018, 11:26:47 PM
| | Label: Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures (Italy)
| Region: 2 | RCE protection: No | Copyright protection system: CSS / CPPM
| Disc type: DVD5 (the data occupy 3.98 GB)
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:25:01.00
| Video: PAL | Aspect ratio: 1.78:1 anamorphic |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.35 / 6.07 / 8.31 Mbps
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Imagica / King Records | VHS Port | Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
Imagica / King Records | VHS Port | Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
Imagica / King Records | VHS Port | Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
Imagica / King Records | VHS Port | Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
Imagica / King Records | VHS Port | Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
Imagica / King Records | VHS Port | Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
Imagica / King Records | VHS Port | Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
Imagica / King Records | VHS Port | Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
Imagica / King Records | VHS Port | Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
Imagica / King Records | VHS Port | Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
Imagica / King Records | VHS Port | Videa-CDE / Eagle Pictures
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