Fortune Star library coming to Blu-ray

will all of the deleted scenes be added back in? or will we have access to them.

Maybe the big boss uncut would be great :)

Too many ppl think that regular HD shot footage look better than 35MM. 35MM is not even the best out there. I can't wait till like Ben Hur comes out on blu. Bruce Lee movies generally have not gotten good treatment. If done properly, it will look better than any HD shot footage out there. And please keep the film grain. Too many companies going for the DNR route to make the footage look more "HD". Keep the grain please.

"a film shot in HD, shown in HD, you don't see a ounce of scratched material. i was anticipating that from enter the dragon when i bought it on blu-ray, but as the movie started, i already saw the marks, so i didn't even care to watch the damn movie."

Well, if you don't want your home video format to be of sufficient quality to show flaws in the source material, VCD has the cure for what ails you.

Enter the dragon on Blue ray do not look very good. Warner equals sloppy just look at the Dirty harry collection it stinks picture wise. ofcourse better than DVD but they did not do much to it.

I hope Fortune Star will use the cleaned up transfers that HKL did..

I got a Fist of Fury trailer in 1080P and that is nice.

Like I said before 35MM has a higher resolution than standart HD footage. Scratch marks are sign of poor handling of source material over the years. "Enter the Dragon" is more then 20 years old. I have a 720P version of it and it looks great. Sharp and nice colors.
BruisedLo if you only like HD material then I suggest do not watch 35MM movies, if you think it is of a lower quality then HD shot movies.

http://www.sentinel-entertainment.co.za/digitalcine.htm , a bit about the RED camera and why normal HD isnot the same as 35MM film.

why don't i just burn your @ss.

"Have you tried any of Criterion's BD offerings?"

yeah but i'm talking about picture quality. most of the older films i have on Blu-ray, again, i see like little film scratches. it doesn't live up to my expectations, but the films that are shot in HD, released on HD do. a blu-ray disc offer other features that a dvd doesn't, a little more hi-tech, but its a normal thing now to see extra stuff on a disc, so that doesn't matter. some titles on blu-ray doesn't even have any features, i dunno sup with that, and rather the dvd version has the extra goodies. a good example would be Silent Hill. the dvd version has the extras, and the blu-ray version just has the movie, but its in hi-def, so thats good, but i dunno why other titles on blu-ray has all the extras, plus even more stuff, and silent hill doesn't.

are you that blind to not see what's wrong? a film shot in HD, shown in HD, you don't see a ounce of scratched material. i was anticipating that from enter the dragon when i bought it on blu-ray, but as the movie started, i already saw the marks, so i didn't even care to watch the damn movie. i just popped in my dvd version and started comparing picture quality to the blu-ray version. i liked that the BD has the bruce lee documentaries, but its not in HD!

@BruisedLo:

Ha ha, more like BurnedLo; like you say, titles that really shine largely consist of recent digitally filmed ones. That has changed since the debut of Bluray, however. Have you tried any of Criterion's BD offerings? Many of their films are quite dated but shine perhaps more so than recent cinema due to superior mastering of the film content and the skillful execution of the cinematography. It was the same case with DVD when it was new.

well i don't know much about cameras, but i'm not happy with the transfer. i have stallone's movie first blood on blu-ray, and i don't like how the transfer turned out. i have the rambo dvd collection too, and i just usually watch first blood on dvd.

if the 35mm film whatever has that much of a higher resolution, the bruce lee movies better look as good or better than crank, and all the other movies that are shoot with HD cameras.

For BruisedLo

No, older movies that are shot on 35MM film cameras will look great on Blu-Ray. If the companies do a great transfer.

Crank was a movie shot on a standart HD camera, 1080P, Crank 2, is the same. Using only semi pro 1080P cameras. Whereas movies that are shot on 35MM camera have a higher resolution then 1080P. Actually a 35MM film has about 4 times the resolution then a standart 1080P HD camera.
Only the new RED HD camera has a resolution of 4K, 4 times that of an ordinary 1080P camera, comes close to a 35MM filmcamera.
So every Bruce Lee movies that are shot on 35MM camera will look great on Blu-Ray!!
Movies shot on film always looks better then on HD cameras.

tony jaa needs the blu-ray treatment, i don't know why he hasn't got it yet. even van damme's street fighter the movie has made it on blu-ray. can you believe it?!?!?! who in the freakin world would want to buy this pile of turd?

anyway i have the dvd version of enter the dragon, and the blu-ray version. now, was the blu-ray ver. worth getting??? to be honest, kinda not really. i know the disc has a lot of the past documentaries on it, but they aren't in hi-def, only the movie. i have a 1080p hdtv, and i watched the film on my ps3. so what the hell is wrong right? you can still see the, what you call it, film scatches etc. i compare it to my dvd version, and there is just a little difference. the hi-def version is clean of course, and you can see more details, like for example, you can see bruce lee's hair color, which looks more brownish. the thing is though, its not the same experience as watching a movie that was filmed with HD cameras, thats on blu-ray. so watching movies like TMNT, and Crank on hi-def, you really are getting what you paid for. all i'm trying to say is, older movies that are getting a hi-def clean up, is cool, but they're not really worth the 30 bucks. then again, if its a film u always wanted to see in HD, go for it, buy it.

Great news! I just that Fs got their hands on some high quality source material for these releases.

"1) Turn on your TV and watch high-def without getting off of your duff; or 2) fool around with a disc player (with yet another incompatible remote) AND fool around with physical disc purchases/rentals AND have to walk back and forth from the player to the disc player/car/mailbox? "

Number two, the one where I get to own my friggin physical media instead of entrusting it to someone else not to switch off the DRM server and with it my access to the movies I paid for when they go out of business. And where it's not dependent on the asshole in the apartment next door saturating the upload on the building's over-taxed Time Warner connection and messing the internet up for everyone in the building. And where I can't grab a DVD/BD and go to a friends house, because the movies have been limited to only run on my computer at home. And where I can't watch the uncut version of a film because the US distributor has made sure that just as Hulu streams only work in the US, Fortune Star's stream of the uncut, say, POLICE STORY III, doesn't work in territories where someone else owns the rights. Not that the Weinsteins would ever crack down on parallel impor---- oh, wait. Of course they would. Better a region block than a massive IP-range block.

Streaming SUCKS. SUCKS. SUCKS. SUCKS. SUCKS. It's a novelty, a poor-but-workable-replacement for rental perhaps, but not in any way an acceptable substitute for purchasing. People who think they want it don't understand the difference between what they want and what they'll actually end up getting. Besides, most of the "HD Streams" online that I've seen looked butt. There's very little streaming out there that's worthy to compare to a real HD disc.

I dont think Blu Ray or disc are dead yet. I for one don't do the whole downloading many people like to collect films and it's not the same if you just download and save in the hard disc. I think dvds are still strong and it's nice that kung fu martial arts movies are moving up to high def. In time we'll see more hd kung fu films...

Sweet! I'm psyched for catalog titles to hit Blu-ray! Rock and roll. Already have Enter the Dragon on BD, but I would snap these up in a heartbeat!

I'd rather see them invest in remastering the classics rather than investing in a technology that may be DOA. High-def video streaming is already here and it is here to stay. What would you rather do: 1) Turn on your TV and watch high-def without getting off of your duff; or 2) fool around with a disc player (with yet another incompatible remote) AND fool around with physical disc purchases/rentals AND have to walk back and forth from the player to the disc player/car/mailbox?

This is awesome! Bruce Lee in Blu Ray! I already have Enter the Dragon...and I own the Fortune Star box set..great quality. I would expect the same here with the HD set...just hope they can get some more special features.