Monthly Archives: April 2009

Finalising The Fifth Element

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Well, I have finally completed my almost-proof that the Australian Blu-ray version of The Fifth Element has identical video to the US remastered version (see two posts down). To do this I extracted the first 999 ‘I’ frames from each … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 4, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

While examining The Fifth Element I noticed that there was a one minute long video file on the disc, with no apparent linkage from the menu. So I dragged it into a video player and discovered that it was a … Continue reading →

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Slander Sony through jumping to conclusions

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Thanks to reader James from Sydney for lending me The Fifth Element on Blu-ray. It arrived in the mail this morning. Thanks also to Theng from Perth, who also offered to make it available. The reason I wanted to examine … Continue reading →

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Is the Australian Blu-ray of The Fifth Element good quality?

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

It has been alleged on a forum that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has dumped its substandard initial Blu-ray encode of The Fifth Element on the Australian market. I find this highly unlikely, but have been unable to get ahold of … Continue reading →

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