V for Vendetta
HD-DVD Specs
Region: -
HDCP Required: No
Release Date: Out now
Country: United States of America
Running Time: 132 minutes
Screen Format: 1080P 2.39:1
Codec: VC1
Number of Discs: 1
Disc Type: HD30
Soundtracks: English True-HD 5.1 / English DD-Plus 5.1 / French DD-Puls 5.1
Subtitles: English / English SDH / French / Spanish
Special Features:
- Director's Notebook: Reimagining a Cult Classic for the 21st Century (HD DVD exclusive)
- Designing the Near Future
- Remember, Remember: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
- Freedom! Forever!: Making V for Vendetta
- England Prevails: V for Vendetta and the New Wave in Comics
- Cat Power montage
- Natalie Portman SNL rap
- Theatrical trailer
- Soundtrack album info
DVD Distributor: Warner
HD DVD Presentation
V for Vendetta arrives on HD DVD with a 2.39:1 transfer encoded at 1080p using the VC1 codec. As with a number of Warner's transfers, the results are largely very good, but with the usual caveats of some noise reduction and light ringing around high contrast areas. The image is generally pleasing, although it doesn't have the "wow" moments of incredible detail that you'll find on titles like Serenity or Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - which seems to be down to the cinematography itself rather than the transfer, judging by how it looked when I saw it at the cinema. That's not to say that there aren't moments of impressive detail - facial close-ups are generally excellent, and a shot of raindrops falling on Evey in slow motion, during the second half of the film, is definitely demo material. By and large, though, if I was looking to thrill someone from start to finish with what HD can achieve, I wouldn't select this title. This is largely a drab-looking film, so the colours don't "pop" as they do in some of the more vibrant releases, although the warmer scenes in V's lair, and the golden glow of the Valerie sequence, are certainly appropriately saturated. There are no visible problems with the compression.
Codec VC-1. Como en un gran número de transfers de WARNER, los resultados son muy buenos, pero aún con pequeños problemas en lo que respecta a "reducción de ruido" y los halos alrededor de las áreas de alto contraste. No tiene la calidad de Serenity o Harry Potter 4, pero que probablemente se deba más a la fotrografía de la película que al transfer en si mismo. Hay momentos de una calidad de los primeros planos impresionante al igual que las gotas de lluvia que son material para demostración del formato. Si quieren impresionar a alguien de principio a fin, no elegiría este título. Principalmente por no ser una película de colores vibrantes. No hay problemas visibles de compresión.
A French Dolby Digital-Plus 5.1 dub is also provided, in addition to English, English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles for the film itself but, annoyingly, none of the extras.
Ninguno de los extras trae subtítulos (Warner sigue haciendo lo mismo que hace con los DVDs, así que calculo que habrá que ir por las ediciones europeas siempre que querramos un título de Warner con extras subtitulados, por lo menos hasta que empiecen a producir HD-DVDs en Sudamérica).
HD DVD Exclusive Extras
Here the HD DVD version hits the jackpot, gaining an In-Movie Experience feature that, naturally, was not included on the standard definition release. Many people expressed surprise that an audio commentary was not featured on the DVD, and it seems fairly clear that the reason for this was that Warner were instead prepping this commentary/documentary hybrid for the HD DVD. As In-Movie Experiences go, this, titled Director's Notebook: Reimagining a Cult Classic for the 21st Century, is probably actually the best I've seen so far, and the reason for that seems to be that, unlike those provided for some other films, this one is comprised of new material created from the ground up instead of splicing in pre-existing interview footage.
Aquí la versión en HD-DVD se ganó la lotería, con un extra exclusivo llamado "In-Movie Experience". Hubo sorpresa cuando en el DVD no hubo audiocomentario, pero obviamente Warner se estaba guardando esta pieza de híbrido de comentario y documental para el HD-DVD.
Inititulado "Director's Notebook: Reimagining a Cult Classic for the 21st Century" es probablemente de lo mejorcito que he visto hasta ahora, simplemente porque está creado de material nuevo en vez de utilizar material ya existente (viejas entrevistas o material promocional típico).
True to their nature, the Wachowski brothers are conspicuously absent, but that is not particularly surprising.
Siendo fieles a su naturaleza, los hermanos Wachowski están ausentes de esta pieza, lo cual a esta altura no sorprende a nadie.
FUENTE: http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=63435
Este título ya está disponible en UK. Si todo resulta como me imagino, solucionaría el tema de los extras subtitulados de los cuales carece la version de USA.
TAPA UK:
