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[Strigoyu]

It's a real pity that Neo Publishing never releases this movie. As someone said before, the "new" Italian release is not complete at all, though... And the Japanese version suffers from interlaced artifacts resulting from a PAL to NTSC conversion! I am completely sure that both Japanese and Italian DVD releases come from the same master.

[Inspector Tanzi]

Spanish VHS sleeve.

[babybreese]

There's a new fan comp/sub print at CG.  The extra German VHS scenes are blended back into the Japanese source and subtitled in English.  The issues with the Japanese source are mentioned by the uploader, a result "of the weird encoding with interlaced and fieldblended video. Also this DVD is cut by some minutes which are available on German VHS. To reconstruct a progressive video stream I had to investigate deeply into Avisynth scripting nightmare."
The result is a triple audio 16 x 9 edition (   English / German / Italian, no subs ).
I watched  & think it came out great so until something better comes along...
here are examples of the vhs restored bits ( lots nicer than the version at the beginning of this thread )


Alot of the footage is ultra graphic slaughterhouse stuff....it was surprisingly nasty 

[bdc]

Looking great,thank you for the hard work! 

[demented_uk]

Nice work indeed. I must get round to comparing the Italian DVD with the Japanese DVD. The Italian DVD appears to be slightly cropped and is also missing considerable footage.  According to Italian genre critic Antonio Bruschini, between 20 - 25 minutes of footage is missing.  He discusses this, in Italian, in the following YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=duvrVqIm-m8#!

[mondomedia]

look, what´s coming!



...and YES, the second film is YELLOW - LE CUGINE... in HD!

[JAMIOUSE]

Interesting so if a HD master of Death exists that means it could pop up in other areas too, potential 88 Films release?

[Raf A.]

This will only have German audio with English subs. I'll wait for another release.

[R-T-C Tim]

Are the English subs confirmed? I'm good with that, great to see this film at all, especially in HD 

[ecc]

If it's German only, do you think it's a transfer of the German version rather than the Italian?

[demented_uk]

Blu-Ray came this morning. Not sure what to make of it. Think it might be a transfer of the German version. I instantly suspect cult film releases from German Blu-Ray labels to be upscales, but this looks pretty good in places. It is 1080p/24fps AVC with an average bitrate of 23.4, so considerably compressed; most likely to fit the two films onto one disc. Will try and watch it projected later. Audio is German only with English subs.

[Jonny]

Cheers for the update Oli, doesn't look half bad. Be keen to hear what you think after watching it on your projector though.

[Inspector Tanzi]

Audio is German only with English subs.

That was what I needed confirming about.

[Jonny]

Audio is German only with English subs.

That was what I needed confirming about.

It's fucker because that's a deal breaker for me, I feel bad saying it but I can't watch it in German with subtitles. I'll await the inevitable fan dub.

[demented_uk]

The Italian version with English subtitles is included in SD as an extra feature. Can confirm that it is taken from a German print and what appears to be a dated print. Colours are good, but definition is soft. Compression is poor; a higher bit rate and stronger encoding would have improved the noise/grain structure.