{"id":2169,"date":"2010-08-04T23:21:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T13:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2010-08-04T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T13:21:23","slug":"the-asian-aviator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2169","title":{"rendered":"The Asian Aviator"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back I ordered a few Warner Brothers Blu-ray discs on a two-for-twenty dollars special from EzyDVD<\/a>. They came in yesterday.<\/p>\n

One of them was The Aviator<\/a><\/em>, a fine movie. But when I was doing my indexing for my database purposes, I found something odd: the disc defaults to Chinese text. It opens with what I take to be some kind of copyright notice, followed by a main menu with Chinese text. When you start the movie, it has Chinese subtitles on by default.<\/p>\n

That was in PowerDVD on the computer. I fiddled with its default languages to see if that made a difference,\u00a0 to no avail. So I dropped it into the Oppo BDP-83 and the up came the Chinese stuff again. How about a Panasonic player? Same thing.<\/p>\n

All the equipment was set with ‘Menu Language’ to ‘English’.<\/p>\n

The disc comes with two audio tracks and two subtitle tracks for the movie: English and Chinese. It came in a proper Australian-looking Blu-ray box, but this says that the audio languages are English, French and Spanish, while the subtitle languages are English , French, Spanish and Portuguese.<\/p>\n

My guess is that Warner Bros Australia has inadvertently purchased a batch of discs intended for the Chinese market and released them here.<\/p>\n

I shall inquire.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile<\/em>, I have another copy of Law Abiding Citizen<\/a><\/em>, which I have just reviewed for Sound and Image<\/em>. I didn’t realise it until the last moment, but it turns out that this is a two disc release, with the theatrical and director’s cuts on different discs. Roadshow, the distributor, had sent me only the theatrical version. Two of them, in fact. I gave the other one away a while back.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Roadshow urgently sent me the proper two disc version, saving my bacon for the purposes of the review. And so I have the theatrical version available. A test disc, no box and no slick, it works fine. No extras (they’re all on the other disc), this is a rather good, and very intriguing, mystery thriller. It will go to the first to ask for it in comments (Australian postage only thanks – and it is Region B locked).<\/p>\n

Audio is Dolby TrueHD 24\/48 5.1 @ 3214kbps with\u00a0640kbps Dolby Digital embedded. Picture is 1080p24, MPEG4 AVC @ 27.96Mbps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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