How about 668 HD SB movies in a box?

[Pai Mei]

I think I'll wait for this thing come to the US. I would hate to ruin such an expensive media player by relying on some adapter just so I can plug this safely into my wall.

Power Supply: DC Power Adapter: 14V @ 1.9A

I have no experience on buying electronics intended for other countries.

And depending on the video quality, I may just stick to collecting dvds/blurays.

[mpm74]

I heard PANMEDIA ordered one. =D

[Fang Shih-yu]

Paging Captain Obvious....

[tantao3-son of tantao2]

at least some of my whish list are in this box...

but why do they not release their complete library in this box?

168018 Purple Darts

168025 The Enchanted Chamber

170006 The Bandits

170012 Hellgate

170025 Mission Impossible

170032 Thousand Years Fox

171018 Na Cha And The Seven Devils

171023 Shadow Girl

171028 The Champion Of Champions

171029 Come Haunt With Me

171032 The Black Enforcer

172015 The Goud Fairy

172033 The Champion

173007 Imperial Tomb Raiders

173011 The Virgins

173014 The Boxers

173019 The Big Fellow

173020 Payment In Blood

173033 The Gambling Syndicate

173040 The Crazy Nuts Of Kung Fu

174006 The Well Of Doom

174018 Mini Skirt Gang

174043 Queen Hustler

174049 Merry Tales Of the East

175005 Temperament Of Life

175006 Evil Seducers

175010 Night Of The Devil's Bride

175023 Fearful Interlude

175037 Spirit Of The Raped

176004 Oriental Playgirls

176018 The Escort Girls

176039 The Crooks

177001 Lady Exterminator

177008 The Mysterious Lady Killer

177010 Murder On The Wedding Night

177020 The Magic Ring

177022 The Mad Love Chase

177037 Gang Of Four

178005 The Winner

178006 The Psychopath

178007 Delinquent Teenagers

178010 Island Of Virgins

178016 Godfathers's Fury

178017 The Cunning Hustler

178027 Crazy Imposters

178029 Double Cross

178035 Bank Busters

178039 The Best Hustler Wins

179006 The Reckless Cricket

179007 The Last Judgement

179012 He Who Never Dies

179031 To Kill A Mastermind

180023 Every Man For Himself

180024 Lover's Blades

181005 Revenge Of The Corpse

181010 Avengers from Hell

181012 The Third Hand

181020 Story Of Taxi Dancers

181026 A Bride's Nightmare

181028 The Battle For The Republic Of China

182021 The Young Heroes Of The Street

182023 Curse of Evil

182031 The Bund

182034 Ghosts Galore

182035 The Bund Part 2

184021 I Will Finally Knock You Down, Dad!

184023 Misfire

184026 Three Stooges Go Undercover

185004 This Man Is Dangerous

185019 Thunderclap

[Rhythm-X]

I think I'll wait for this thing come to the US. I would hate to ruin such an expensive media player by relying on some adapter just so I can plug this safely into my wall.

Power Supply: DC Power Adapter: 14V @ 1.9A

I have no experience on buying electronics intended for other countries.

And depending on the video quality, I may just stick to collecting dvds/blurays.

If that power adapter isn't multi voltage I'd be pretty surprised. But if it's not multi-voltage, just get a US-friendly adapter with matching specs locally...

...because in this case patience is no virtue; this thing will never, ever be released in the US. The distribution rights to these films are scattered to the four winds in this country. By the time you reached an agreement that all parties found acceptable, the price would be outrageously expensive. Besides that, the Weinsteins would simply cockblock the whole deal because the Weinsteins are notorious douchebags. Does anyone in the US really want this without the Dragon Dynasty-conrolled Shaw titles?

Press release here, pretty much stating that this is a Singapore-only thing. It does make me wonder why this box only contains 668 of the claimed 760 films. If you're going to go this big, what's 92 more films? I think 760 films would still fit onto a 2 TB drive in very good DVD quality using well-tuned H.264 video compression, with plenty of room for the OS (presumably this thing's running a Linux-based system) and the custom Shaw-centric media center software. 2TB may even be excessive - considering what Celestial considers to be DVD quality, 1TB would probably be adequate.

Does it serve as an all-purpose media center in addition to being a gateway into (most of) the Celestial/Shaw library? There is an Ethernet port, after all, there's technically no reason it couldn't serve up media from networked sources on your LAN or from the Internet.

An aside tossed into that press release that's arguably more interesting than the actual subject of the press release - in 2011 Celestial is apparently remastering some more Shaw titles in HD.

[Gaijin84]

This device is definitely not going to be released in the US, but I find it very hard to believe its going to be exclusive to Singapore for the duration of its existence. The press release mentions that "Under the agreement, Creative has licensed the non-exclusive digital download rights as well as internet download-to-own rights to release an extensive range of films..." I take this to mean that although it is in Singapore only now, in the future it will expand to other areas and other devices will have the capability. Also makes it sound like there is extra space on the box to allow future releases to be downloaded. Sounds like a device they intend to be providing content for for a while to come. Fingers crossed!

[kaleyboy]

Maybe it could develop into a streaming service, like Netflix for Shaw Brothers movies.

[mpm74]

Maybe it could develop into a streaming service, like Netflix for Shaw Brothers movies.

But then... we'd never really OWN the films. With the device, we at least have them stored in a hard drive.

But when it comes down to it: Nothing like owning the DVD or Blu-rays. That's why they'll never become obsolete (in my opinion). Every collector wants an actual, tangible product.

Imagine having your favorite book in digital-form only. It's not the same.

Digital only works with music. But then again, why buy the Beatles catalogue from iTunes, when you can have the nice physical collection in their liner notes, etc.

[Gaijin84]

I totally agree on the hard copy point, nothing like having the actual dvd for your favorite films. I wouldn't be able to pass up the chance that owning the whole catalog for ~$1.50 a film though.

[Takahiro]

I wonder if it will come to Australia. Does anyone know if the rights to the SB library are owned by anyone down-under?

[kaleyboy]

But then... we'd never really OWN the films. With the device, we at least have them stored in a hard drive.

But when it comes down to it: Nothing like owning the DVD or Blu-rays. That's why they'll never become obsolete (in my opinion). Every collector wants an actual, tangible product.

Imagine having your favorite book in digital-form only. It's not the same.

Digital only works with music. But then again, why buy the Beatles catalogue from iTunes, when you can have the nice physical collection in their liner notes, etc.

I didn't say I thought it was a good idea - I don't. I was just thinking what kind of business model they might follow for this.

[LittleDragon]

A product like this will never be released outside Asia.....IMO...

Books are now in Digital Form...Amazon Kindle.....!

[Tosh]

I'd love to have this but I have 100 movies sitting on the shelf I haven't been able to get to yet including an expensive copy of Massacre Suvivor:xd:

I wonder what the •"3,000 years of Chinese culture and secrets of the much elusive 'Confucian thing.'" is about.

[Asmo]

I wonder if it will come to Australia. Does anyone know if the rights to the SB library are owned by anyone down-under?

I don't know about the complete catalogue. I'd imagine Roadshow own the rights to the DD releases. Celestial may hold them though, AFAIK we can get the Celestial channel down here.

[greenfan]

Hot damn! This looks like a must buy for me. I'm gonna do a bit more research into it first.

[HAZ]

Hot damn! This looks like a must buy for me. I'm gonna do a bit more research into it first.

I wish this box had your Dream Sword & Return of the Deadly Blade in it!

[daTOAD]

"I wish this box had your Dream Sword & Return of the Deadly Blade in it!"

lol. Most def. Youku has a clean 2pt widescreen. I feel a fan project. Happy Holidays

[greenfan]

Return of the Deadly Blade is about 80% done. I just need to sort out a few things before it'll be ready to go on sale. Hopefully, it'll be some time in January.

[Grady-San]

Return of the Deadly Blade is about 80% done. I just need to sort out a few things before it'll be ready to go on sale. Hopefully, it'll be some time in January.

Really!! Your finally going to release this?? I am so stoked.... I recall this titles was shelved awhile back and you had mentioned one day maybe doing something with it. Glad to see things are heading in a good direction and we will finally see this one being released soon. Keep us all posted.

[peringaten]

Hey Mike, glad to see you're puttng out Deadly Blade! Funny enough, I just watched your print of this about a week ago; spent the whole time thinking 'this print is gorgeous, good as any remaster, why didn't he push it out there'... Good luck mate.

[Sandpalm79]

Some main things i think should be addressed or are of concern to me are

1. What is the insurance on this product? as we all know, it seems all Hard Drives go bad. That be quite a devastating thing to happen to this harddrive. be nice to have the ability to at least back it up

2. The word censor should scare us all a bit. Even if they were all cut for blood and nudity, it would ruin the whole product. We all seem to be purists on this board and dont think anyone of us would settle for this

3. Would they all suffer from the PAL ntsc issue?

...ah i already forgot the others :-) but something isnt sitting right with all this. At best it would be an amazing living room piece and we would never have to order another Shaw again. at worst they would be censored and VCD quality versions of all the shaws

[Winfred]

There's a ratings system and no censorship.

I intend to get the box soon.

[kaleyboy]

There's a ratings system and no censorship.

I intend to get the box soon.

Good for you mate. Let us know what the quality is like when you get it.

[Sandpalm79]

There's a ratings system and no censorship.

I intend to get the box soon.

what do you mean by ratings?

are you in singapore? could you elaborate on how you are able to purchase it?

and yes a review be such a great asset for alll of us!

[spannick]

if the Box is from / for Singapor the Movies could all be censored for Nudity. i had a few VCDs of Celestial Movies and they were all cut for even minor nudity (Anonymous Heroes and Magic Blade for example).