Question about new Jackie DVD releases...

Hey there, noticed there are 'Digitally Remastered' versions of some Jackie
Chan DVDs on the shelves (notably City Hunter & My Lucky Stars). They claim to
have both the original Cantonese languages & a US dub (ug!) including DTS sound
(!). They are from a company I never heard of (Fortune Star Entertainment) but
the price on these are pretty good. What I'm wondering is are these the
original uncut versions of the films or are they cut? Does anyone know? Thanks
in advance.

Jabba59

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 05:08:59 GMT, Jabba59 wrote in alt.video.dvd:

> They are from a company I never heard of (Fortune Star Entertainment)
> but the price on these are pretty good.

I have a bunch of Fortune Star DVDs. They produce for the Chinese/Hong
Kong market.

Check www.dddhouse.com for more.

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- Cods


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Codswallop

Jabba59 <> wrote:
> Hey there, noticed there are 'Digitally Remastered' versions of some
> Jackie Chan DVDs on the shelves (notably City Hunter & My Lucky
> Stars). They claim to have both the original Cantonese languages & a
> US dub (ug!) including DTS sound (!). They are from a company I never
> heard of (Fortune Star Entertainment) but the price on these are
> pretty good. What I'm wondering is are these the original uncut
> versions of the films or are they cut? Does anyone know? Thanks in
> advance.

Fortune Star is a Hong Kong company that licenses the films to
other distributors worldwide. They also produce and distribute
their own DVDs in HK, but the DVDs you are talking about
were produced and distributed by FOX. The video for these
are usually considered top-notch, and I believe the video
masters are the same that are used on the DVDs on the
Hong Kong Legend label in the UK.

The sound sometimes leaves something to be desired,
since these are typically older films that weren't stored in
the best conditions, and they're 5.1 remasters of soundtracks
that were typically mono originally. Still, they're servicable
enough.

For $5.99, these are the best deal possible for these films.
www.dvdtalk.com has reviews of several of the titles if
you want more information.

-Jay

Jay G