Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:55 am**

I'm gonna go look for it soon. I hope a store around here is carrying it (stores in my area tend to really suck when it comes to new releases)

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:59 am**

Links to recent reviews, as mentioned in the previous thread:

http://10kbullets.com/reviews/ultraman- ... olume-one/
http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=4512
http://www.dvdmoviecentral.com/ReviewsText/ultraman.htm
http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/006823.html#more

(RobD, has your review been posted yet?)

Volume 2 news: http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=6024

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:44 pm**

I'll keep my legal and moral views to myself in this thread, hopefully we can keep that topic going only in the other thread and keep this exclusively to the actual DVDs themselves.

As I've mentioned in another place, the sales rank at amazon.com is #34 today. That is really freakin good for any DVD, much less a 40 year old kids' show.

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:51 pm**

Yeah, that's quite a rank. I don't think any of the recent Godzilla DVDs (GMK, GxMG, SOS, GFW) ranked quite that high, but I recall that one of them broke into the Top 100, and another (GMK I think) broke the Top 50.

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:59 pm**

Quick R1/R2 comparison:

REGION 1, BCI (from Andy Simon):

REGION 2, HAPPINET:

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If these are ripped from the R2's, how do you explain the differences in framing on the sides?

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:08 pm**

Just in case anyone was wondering, this is what the copyright info on the back says:

*Copyright* 1966 Tsubaraya Production Co. Ltd; Licensed by Tiga Co. Ltd as agent for Tsubaraya Chaiyo Co Ltd and Sompote Saengduenchai
*TM* Tsubaraya Productions Co Ltd.

Exclusively Distributed by BCI Eclipse Company, LLC Newbury Park, CA 91320

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:11 pm**

Here's a comparison of screengrabs I took just now from my sets:

BCI release:

Region 2 release:

Can we stop saying BCI didn't use the region 2 discs now?

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More screen comparisons.

Region 2:

BCI:

Region 2:

BCI:

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:29 pm**

I just checked, these are dual layer discs.

Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

New Ultraman 1966 Region 1 DVD Discussion

New Ultraman 1966 Region 1 DVD Discussion