2002 Live Action
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Two 24 Bit 5.1 Dolby TrueHD tracks are available, in English & Italian. Hidden/embedded within these are legacy Dolby Digital mixes at full bit-rate. Also available are three 5.1 Dolby dubs, again, at full bit-rate.
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*Both commentaries are Dolby 2.0 Surround encoded at 192 Kb/s.
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VIDEO
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Compression, contrast are fine, colors are rather dull but that's a stylistic choice rather than a transfer flaw. The film is decently sharp, maybe a touch soft. Film grain is present, having quite a thick granular look.
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EXTRAS
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Two commentaries, along with a bunch of behind-the-scenes featurettes make up the bulk if the extras. There's also a music video, an alternate ending, and the Blu-wizard.
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ASPECT RATIO: 1.85:1 (Original Widescreen)
VIDEO CODEC: AVC (25.8 Mb/s)
NUMBER OF DISCS: 1
DISC SIZE: Dual-Layer (44.1 Gb Full Disc)
REGION CODE: Region Free
AUDIO: 24 Bit TrueHD English & Italian 5.1 (4 Mb/s English | 1.7 Mb/s Italian)
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese 5.1 (Dolby 640 Kb/s)
SUBTITLES: English, English SDH, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
RUN-TIME: 1 Hour 41 Minutes
Apocalypse
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The version I have is the Wal-Mart exclusive steelbook. I got it used, so I would assume it has some sort of slip cover, but I don't have it. The cover has a render of Alice & the films logo. The back has nothing but an intricate abstract design, which is why I assume maybe there was some sort of translucent slip cover that goes over it?
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Atop a menu video of some Umbrella looking operating system are basic Blu-Ray pop-up options. This is one of those early Sony Blu-Rays where they loved to show off the Blu-wizard which is some sort of playlist type feature, I think? (I've never messed with & I'm not honestly sure what it is or does. I think they just made it to show off how much more dynamic & "on the fly" Blu-Ray menus are compared to DVD?)
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Like a lot of early Blu-Ray releases, the main mix here is a 16 Bit LPCM 5.1 mix. Accompanying the main track is a full bit-rate standard Dolby Digital version. I get that this was the early days of Blu-Ray and not everyone could playback DTS-HD MA or TrueHD, but LPCM eats up so much space on a single-layer disc!
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VIDEO
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Like Silent Hill, which only came out a few years later, the black levels seem too bright making them look washed out. An example of this is in the image gallery below. Again, like the Silent Hill Blu-Ray, compression isn't great here due to using a single-layer disc with MPEG-2. AVC encoding could have cleaned up most of these compression artifacts, so it sucks studios made these decisions in the early HD days.
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Clarity is decent, not razor sharp but fine. Grain structure looks rather murky, probably due to compression. There's a very obvious look to the film, with very few colors being used. Some scenes have things such as fire, lights, or blood to add some nice orange/red tones, but it's mostly dull blue.
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The bonus disc has archival behind-the-scenes footage from the first few films, leading up to a preview of Resident Evil: Afterlife. There is no main menu and the, roughly twenty minute feature, just starts playing. The disc is labeled as "The Alice Project, " but it's really just a preview of what was, at the time of this Blu-Ray's release, the next upcoming film.
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Most of the extras on the Blu-Ray are similar to the previous film, with featurettes and such.
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ASPECT RATIO: 2.40:1 (Original Widescreen)
VIDEO CODEC: MPEG-2 (18 Mb/s)
NUMBER OF DISCS: 1
DISC SIZE: Single-Layer
REGION CODE: Region Free
AUDIO: 16 Bit LPCM English 5.1 (4.6 Mb/s)
English 5.1 (Dolby 640 Kb/s)
SUBTITLES: English, English SDH, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
RUN-TIME: 1 Hour 34 Minutes
Retribution
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The version I have is the 3D version, which uses the same artwork, but with some extra mentions about the 3D aspects. Also, it uses a clear white case instead of the typical blue one.
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Atop a background video of some action sequences form the film, are basic overlay options such as play, scenes, extras, etc.
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The main mix here is a 24 Bit 5.1 DTS-HD MA track. Also included is a 16 bit French dub, and a Dolby Spanish one. Lastly, there is an English descriptive track, which is 5.1 Dolby Digital at full bit-rate.
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Colors & contrast are fine, as is the compression. The video isn't crazy sharp, and seems a bit soft. I'd image that this makes it easier to process with 3D elements? Some light grain is visible at times, I did note few spots that had a more noisy image. I can't really say anything about the actual 3D version of the film, since I don't have 3D capable equipment.
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EXTRAS
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*Dolby Surround 192 Kb/s commentaries.
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ASPECT RATIO: 2.39:1 (Original Widescreen)
VIDEO CODEC: AVC (24 Mb/s), AVC MVC (3D)
NUMBER OF DISCS: 2
DISC SIZE: Dual-Layer
REGION CODE: Region Free
AUDIO: 24 Bit DTS-HD MA English 5.1 (4.8 Mb/s)
16 Bit DTS-HD MA French 5.1 (4.1 Mb/s)
Spanish 5.1 (Dolby 640 Kb/s)
SUBTITLES: English, English SDH, French, Spanish
RUN-TIME: 1 Hour 36 Minutes
3 Movie Collection (CGI)
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A red banner at the top has a Resident Evil logo with, "3 CG movie collection, "underneath. The three films each have their own slot, with their respective logos, and enemy renders.
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Like the front, each film has it's own spot with box-art, tech. aspects, and a brief description. Each slot has an alternating color or black or red.
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With the films being all CG, they look nice and clear. It's not particularly sharp, but no super blurry either. There's some minor aliasing, suggesting maybe they were mastered at a lower native resolution than 1080p. Seems grain was added for a filmic look. The bit-rate was fine, and CG compresses very well.
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I'd like to note that, for whatever reason, Vendetta wouldn't copy onto my hard drive. Long story short: I couldn't get screenshots of it, sorry!
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ASPECT RATIO: 1.78:1 (Original Widescreen)
NUMBER OF DISCS: 3
DISC SIZE: Dual-Layer
REGION CODE: A
AUDIO: (All) Spanish & Thai 5.1 (Dolby 640 Kb/s)
(Degeneration) English 24 Bit TrueHD 5.1, French & Portuguese 5.1 (Dolby 640 Kb/s)
(Damnation) English, French, Portuguese 16 Bit DTS-HD MA 5.1
(Vendetta) English 24/Spanish 16 Bit DTS-HD MA 5.1, French, Spanish, Portuguese 5.1 (Dolby 640 Kb/s)
SUBTITLES: English, English SDH, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Indonesian, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Thai
RUN-TIME: 4 Hour 53 Minutes
