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The Digital Fix on A Bay of Blood and Inferno.

Deep Red is officially released 3rd January but it's shipping now from our website if you want it before Xmas! Blu-ray, DVD

EDIT: Oh yes, to confirm, it's region free too.

TonyleStephanois wrote:Deep Red is officially released 3rd January but it's shipping now from our website if you want it before Xmas! Blu-ray, DVD

How much is the international shipping? Do you offer it free like Eureka?

'fraid not, shipping is £3 anywhere outside of the UK.

Two updates:

Details for Lucio Fulci's The Beyond are now up - Blu-ray, DVD.

It's the penultimate day to win any 3 of our releases by telling us your favourite film poster and why on our Facebook wall. Enter here.

Merry Christmas!

Any news/details on those upcoming Arrow Academy releases?

eerik wrote:Any news/details on those upcoming Arrow Academy releases?

As mentioned before we're aiming to release more specific details on the plans in the new year, hopefully with details more firmly pinned down we can unveil a lot more info.

dvjaso has kindly put in links to the new titles, though out of the first five Bicycle Thieves and Les diaboliques will feature in the line up, Ashes & Diamonds will come much later. The plan is for roughly one release a month - we've very busy with Arrow Video and we don't want to rush things and sacrifice quality. All will have brand new transfers, new extras and booklets.

djvaso wrote:Titles in new Arrow sub-label 'Arrow Academy', planned on 28th of March 2011:

The Bicycle Thieves [Blu-ray] pre-order

Les Diaboliques [Blu-ray] pre-order

Ashes and Diamonds [Blu-ray] pre-order

Great news! It sounds very promising, especially after the quality Arrow has shown in recent Blu releases. I hope that I will have no reason to hold onto my Criterion DVD version of Bicycle Thieves when that is released!

No reviews up anywhere for DEEP RED coming out in a week?

manicsounds wrote:Feb 28th for the second press standard edition

Ta.

A review of DEEP RED.

Another review of DEEP RED.

Film365: Deep Red... looks absolutely stunning and is up there with films released in 2010 in terms of quality.

BluBrew: VIDEO QUALITY - In short, a messy disappointment.

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So it appears that the quality of the transfer is entirely subjective then?. (I was planing on buying this blu-ray,I already have the DVD, but now I am thoroughly confused)

DVDBeaver: I didn't even receive the Deep Red Blu-ray in the mail yet, but the cupcake I'm eating right now is delicious.

Did you get that cupcake out of the trash?

mfunk9786 wrote:DVDBeaver: I didn't even receive the Deep Red Blu-ray in the mail yet, but the cupcake I'm eating right now is delicious.

When did you order the Blu-ray and where did you buy the cupcake.

That Land of Whimsy review is rather Whimsical. In all of those captures, the Arrow disc blows the nastily compressed WMV encode out of the water. Deep Red was shot in Techniscope - of course it's somewhat grainy.

Does it? I don't see any more grain that in the DVD, nor does there seem to be more detail? Look at the caps side by side, the Arrow seems to have been artificially sharpened or have weird compression or something because that grain doesn't look natural. I'm really disappointed with Arrow as a company, for a while they released some great stuff like the Fassbinder DVDs. And their current Blus have plenty of extras, different cuts and soundtracks, different covers and stuff, but they keep DNR'ing and applying sharpening. Thankfully Spirits of the Dead wasn't touched, maybe because they thought less people would care about grain for that title? I don't know...

But reading reviews and the comments people post on them for various Arrow releases, other people feel the same way, that Arrow should stop filtering grain... otherwise more and more people will just wait for the Blue Underground

John White at The Digital Fix had this to say about the image (6 out of 10):

After Inferno, Arrow seem to have backtracked on the DNR with both of the transfers presented here. There is a lot of grain and where it is especially plentiful, detail is obscured so that both transfers look film-like but not especially revelatory in terms of extra information. It's a matter of taste if this is preferable to the level of DNR found on their previous Argento release but this can't be claimed as the greatest transfer you will ever see.

The underlying print doesn't seem to be in the best of condition but it does seem to be uncut. There is some bleaching, greens are slightly off and contrast not always perfect. There is a lack of filtering and edge enhancement and whilst this can be bettered, it is a welcome improvement from the standard definition versions out there.

Tony, will the upcoming Arrow Academy titles be Region B?

I'm not the "Tony" you are addressing, but their "Spirits of the Dead" Blu is ABC. So the signs are encouraging.

As ever, it depends entirely on the deal struck between Arrow and the individual rightsholder. The only thing that a region-free release of Spirits of the Dead proves is that Arrow have adopted a BFI/MoC policy towards region coding as opposed to a Criterion one.

That said, the Polish release of Ashes and Diamonds is definitely region-free, so it would be a bit surprising if the Arrow one was locked.

As Michael says it really depends on the individual licensor. We will, as we have so far, try and make as much as possible region free if we can.

So far many of our releases have been region free on Arrow Video, on Blu-ray alone - City of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Deep Red, Inferno, A Bay of Blood and the upcoming Argentos, The Beyond and Vamp.

Hoping to make firm up details on Bicycle Thieves soon...

On another note here's a review for Deep Red which I don't think has been posted yet.