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it’s a dubbing issue I’m referring to in particular here with the voice and lip movements very out of sync in places.

Yes that's the ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) pickups in the studio. The dubbing by the actors after shooting makes it look like their dialogue is a little out of sync.

Hi Peter,

So your post finally prompted me to watch Excaliber, which I would estimate I haven't seen it since watching it back in the 80's on VHS and to be honest wasn't that impressed with it as a young fella. But my God what an epic John Boreman crafted an absolute masterpiece to my eyes now

Onto the transfer I think it's a fantastic picturr transfer by Arrow video so happy with that glad to see the grain intact.

As for the sound, I put on the mono dts soundtrack first and yes I noticed the lip sync issue immediately so I switched to the 5.1 mix and I found it a lot better speech and lips seemed to be more in sync with each other so I watched it the whole movie that way.

Anyway I will have to delve into the special feature. I will also see if I can correct the mono track on the Panasonic 820 player with my Denon anp and let you know.

I can safely say that Excaliber will be one of my top 4Ks for this year!

looks like the Lionsgate release is the only one from what I can see online.

Did you see it in the cinema? Really was fantastic, I forgot how much fun those films were, hadnt watched them in well over a decade!

Saw it in the US in December as I was there at the time, yes (I mentioned it in the “what have you watched recently” thread). I really enjoyed it, and loved the extended anime sequence, though the Fortnite sequence did nothing for me. I have so many versions of the movie and I’ll be adding to it again for this edit.

I have: VHS (yes), LASER DISC (yes), DVD, Japanese DVD (paid an obscene amount of money for this back around 2004/5 on eBay which I bought purely for the House of Blue Leaves colour sequence), HK DVD (picked them up when I was there for no real reason 🙄🤷‍♂️), Blu Ray, Part of the Tarantino XX box Set, 4K Blu Ray….and so on. It would be remiss of me not to add TWBA to that list.

speaking of VHS releases, I see it's getting one of those too, madness!

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I could feel your rage on the horizon as I posted that link :pac:

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I put through 5 or 6 orders a year with Imprint. No issues.

does anyone use the OOH Pod service in NI? I know they have a collection point just over the border. Might be an option.

On NI, if you haven’t visited HMV’s Belfast store it is genuinely very impressive from a physical media POV. They even have Arrow, Second Sight etc. sections. It ain’t cheap though….

Probably a stupid question but how I open this DVD case?

Thanks

Thanks very much for that. It was a cheap sealed copy from Amazon UK.

Had a look back in the emails as I got the Conan bundle a couple year back from Arrow US - DHL Ecom Packet Intl.

Can't recall specifically, but I suspect AnPost were the last mile courier at that level of DHL shipping (was only $12 after all), but we are talking about 2 and half years ago now. VAT man would have had to have his cut alright, but can't find an invoice from that far back.

Might have been the last time I used Arrow US, so someone else might have more relevant info

Been a while, but yeah, I recall being very impressed with Barbarian anyway, within reason of course, as it's a gritty image which may not be to everyone's taste, but it was at least very faithful in resolving the grain and allowing detail to come through. Do remember some concern over a colour timing issue - nothing major, just nitpicking in a certain scene, but not sure if that was ever subject to any recall. Think most fans would be very happy with it. Think even the new Atmos track was half decent as well - not a night and day jump, but really allowed the soundtrack to be batter balanced across certain scenes - but it does still have a faithful mono track.

Not sure I ever got around to Destroyer - which is normally a good thing :)

@Romero @McDermotX I just had The Warriors & Evil Dead Rise delivered from Arrow. Ordered two weeks ago and delivered by DPD. I think it might have been sent to Arrow UK first and then send via DPD to here as tracking mentions DPD UK. No import charges on it either