Member BlurayStation3 Posted March 14, 2010 Member Share Posted March 14, 2010 This is a region 0 NTSC boxset released by Zoke Culture. Comes in a hard case with nice gold lettering and a magnetic door flap. The inside is pretty bland as with other Zoke releases. You get five discs held in three individual sleeves cushioned by two foam pieces. It's a compilation of their 2008 individual releases. They're the same as my region 1 Ultimate Collection boxset and disc-1 of the EtD 2-disc Special Edition but with Cantonese 5.1 DTS/Cantonese 5.1 Dolby/Mandarin 2.0 Dolby for BB/FoF/WotD and English 5.1 DTS/English 5.1 Dolby/Cantonese 2.0 Dolby/Mandarin 2.0 Dolby for GoD/EtD. One MAJOR problem with the English 5.1 DTS in EtD is that it's completely out of sync (like 10-15 seconds) so that track is useless. There are multiple subtitle languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese). Also, the animation and music on the menus are different than on my region 1 Ultimate Collection. EtD doesn't have any music on the menu. There is an option for English or Chinese for the menus. The Mandarin tracks (and Cantonese track for EtD/GoD) aren't selectable on the menu and you have to press the audio button on your remote when the movie is playing to access them. The discs are identical to the individual releases. They didn't even bother to fix the "All Eights Reserved". For people in the US without region-free players, it is the cheapest way to get these movies with the picture quality of Ultimate Collection and the Cantonese 5.1 DTS/Cantonese 5.1 Dolby/Mandarin 2.0 Dolby soundtracks for BB/FoF/WotD (English 5.1 DTS/English 5.1 Dolby/Cantonese 2.0 Dolby/Mandarin 2.0 Dolby for EtD/GoD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member shukocarl Posted March 14, 2010 Member Share Posted March 14, 2010 Are they boots? I thought Zoke were bootleggers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 It's important for Chinese to reserve their eights what with it being their lucky number... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Asmo Posted March 15, 2010 Moderator Share Posted March 15, 2010 Are they boots? I thought Zoke were bootleggers? They're not. When they released products they've licensed from other companies they just tend to use their artwork and menus etc. There are some differences though, the Shaw films they released are basically ports of the IVL releases but with simplified Chinese subs insteaf of traditional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member BlurayStation3 Posted March 15, 2010 Author Member Share Posted March 15, 2010 Are they boots? I thought Zoke were bootleggers? I also thought they were bootlegs when I got my first Zoke dvd, but they're legit. They have to keep production costs down to compete with the bootleggers, so that's why their quality of packaging is poor. Here's their website: http://www.zokegd.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member fiol Posted March 15, 2010 Member Share Posted March 15, 2010 cut oh so the inside is like that! i was going to buy it since the price in mainland china was cheap as hell, but since i already have all the movies, i skipped it. Zoke is a legit distributor, for this "remastered" releases, the source is always FS (HK or Korean). For others "remastered" the source is from Mei Ah (for ex. Swordsman 2,3, Green Snake) or from japan (ex. Hail the judge, Flirting Scholar) but at cheap price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member David Rees Posted March 16, 2010 Member Share Posted March 16, 2010 I have a few Zoke releases, Shaws and others and can say that they are legit and great value. RARE OOP HK Legends dvds HERE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member shukocarl Posted March 24, 2010 Member Share Posted March 24, 2010 I just recieved my Zoke release of Way of the Dragon.. Picture quality is good except there are strobing lines going across from time to time and the colour goes a bit pink at one point in the Colleseusm scene..however the biggest misnomer is the Mandarin 2.0 track. If that's an original soundtrack I'll eat my hat! There are lots of added (and loud!) sound effects such as 'outside' ambient noise, doors being closed, ramped up fighting effects etc. I've seen the original mandarin print back in 1979 and have a Taiwanese vhs to compare and it's quite different. I only got the disc for the original track:( So, it maybe Mandarin but deffo not original. Oh, also the vocals from Lee and Norris (grunts and shouts) are completely missing during the fight!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member fiol Posted March 24, 2010 Member Share Posted March 24, 2010 I just recieved my Zoke release of Way of the Dragon.. Picture quality is good except there are strobing lines going across from time to time and the colour goes a bit pink at one point in the Colleseusm scene..however the biggest misnomer is the Mandarin 2.0 track. If that's an original soundtrack I'll eat my hat! There are lots of added (and loud!) sound effects such as 'outside' ambient noise, doors being closed, ramped up fighting effects etc. I've seen the original mandarin print back in 1979 and have a Taiwanese vhs to compare and it's quite different. I only got the disc for the original track:( So, it maybe Mandarin but deffo not original. Oh, also the vocals from Lee and Norris (grunts and shouts) are completely missing during the fight!! which version did u buy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member shukocarl Posted March 25, 2010 Member Share Posted March 25, 2010 The one with the blue (background) slip case as shown in the pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member The Dragon Posted March 27, 2010 Member Share Posted March 27, 2010 I just recieved my Zoke release of Way of the Dragon.. Picture quality is good except there are strobing lines going across from time to time and the colour goes a bit pink at one point in the Colleseusm scene..however the biggest misnomer is the Mandarin 2.0 track. If that's an original soundtrack I'll eat my hat! There are lots of added (and loud!) sound effects such as 'outside' ambient noise, doors being closed, ramped up fighting effects etc. I've seen the original mandarin print back in 1979 and have a Taiwanese vhs to compare and it's quite different. I only got the disc for the original track:( So, it maybe Mandarin but deffo not original. ... Oh, also the vocals from Lee and Norris (grunts and shouts) are completely missing during the fight!! Man, what a hack job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member shukocarl Posted March 27, 2010 Member Share Posted March 27, 2010 Man, what a hack job! Yeah, it's back to my trusty HKL Platinum edition...still the best version out there as every company seems to get something wrong. All they have to do (hah! Lol!) is do a HD transfer with the ORIGINAL mono tracks in both mandarin and english and I'd be happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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