Release date of Evangelion 2.22 DVD and BluRay in Italy

[Tetsuo87]

Today the Italian publisher Dynit announced the date of release of Evangelion 2.22 In Blu-Ray and DVD. come out October 27

official announcement and trailer



release will be very similar to the Japanese edition. Limited edition: digipack + booklet + Card Box 3d. will be presented at the 2010 edition of Lucca Comics & Games.

Focus on: here

Specifications of the DVD: here

Specifications of the Blu-Ray: here

[Hyper Shinchan]

It's funny (actually it's typical of Dynit) that in the BD page they say that it's region coded "2", shouldn't it be "B"?

[Tetsuo87]

I think it is well written in both ways

edit: this is Blu-ray region maps

[Oz]

I've always seen region codes written in numbers. Never heard of A/B/C even though I play around with region coding pretty much every week. By the way, that map is flawed. Japan isn't in R1, it's R2 there.

[Xard]

Those are BD regions

[Oz]

So Japanese BDs work in American BD players? What? That's a mindfuck. I mean, sure, I can understand why there are less regions for BD releases, but why have they mixed up the system completely?

[Tetsuo87]

that in the previous post is the regions map of blu-ray.
but this is the DVD map

DVD


Blu-Ray

[ath]

They're the new Blu-Ray regions. Unfortunately for us Europeans, Japan is now in the same region as the US.

Great news! Too bad I don't have a Blu-Ray player or money to buy a decent one, so I'll wait for the cheaper non-limited DVD release ;)

[Tetsuo87]

They're the new Blu-Ray regions. Unfortunately for us Europeans, Japan is now in the same region as the US.

Great news! Too bad I don't have a Blu-Ray player or money to buy a decent one, so I'll wait for the cheaper non-limited DVD release ;)

at Mediaworld I found a blue-ray player to 39 € (on sale)

[Hyper Shinchan]

Those are BD regions

And for this reason usually the letters are used to refer to BD regions, it can be confusing to use the numbers (for example asianblurayguide.com uses only the letters, but I'm not sure how they're putted in the discs since the few BDs that I own are region free like most of the BDs)

So Japanese BDs work in American BD players? What? That's a mindfuck. I mean, sure, I can understand why there are less regions for BD releases, but why have they mixed up the system completely?

Most BDs work eveywhere but it's better to be sure about it if you're European; I think that originally they thought the system in a pretty naive way, Europe and Japan shared the same region yet they had different video systems and the same was true for Australia and South America (in both cases respectivel PAL and NTSC, except Brazil with his hybrid PAL-M) but multi system players and TVs were available even before region free players appeared (at least here in the PAL area), because of that (actually HDTVs don't have a real PAL/NTSC difference, the term is used mostly as legacy) and for the decrease of the need for region coding they simplified it and they simply putted together homogeneous geographic areas (with the exception of Japan, Korea, Indochina and Australia)

[Tetsuo87]

Most BDs work eveywhere but it's better to be sure about it if you're European; I think that originally they thought the system in a pretty naive way, Europe and Japan shared the same region yet they had different video systems and the same was true for Australia and South America (in both cases respectivel PAL and NTSC, except Brazil with his hybrid PAL-M) but multi system players and TVs were available even before region free players appeared (at least here in the PAL area), because of that (actually HDTVs don't have a real PAL/NTSC difference, the term is used mostly as legacy) and for the decrease of the need for region coding they simplified it and they simply putted together homogeneous geographic areas (with the exception of Japan, Korea, Indochina and Australia)

You are quite right to. now the standard of films is generally in 24fps progressive. while the HD broadcast, that generally interlaced, the only differences are that in America you go to 60fps, and 50fps in Europe. there are many more problems for what concerns the SD (DVD). excuse my English, some things translate with google

@Hyper Shinchan: know a lot of television and video techniques, work too in television / video?

[Hyper Shinchan]

@Hyper Shinchan: know a lot of television and video techniques, work too in television / video?

No, it has just been my hobby for nearly a decade.

[vito]

Hm, tempting to check out the bluray, anyone knows of a decent italian online store that ships across the border to Slovenia?

[The Eva Monkey]

Region encoding is stupid. It's a mild deterrent that can easily be bypassed by motivated individuals.

I understand it's to prevent reverse importation, but I honestly think it's like DRM, it does more harm than good.

[vito]

Yes it is. In the end it forces the informed consumer to buy another player if his original one can't be hacked thus diminishing his funds for legit purchases.

Does anyone know if the italian release will be a BD25 or BD50?

[mp3dom]

It will be on a BD50.

[vito]

Oh thanks. Now to find a store in Trieste or some other border town that'll carry it. I guess I'll check the local comics forum if anyone is attending Lucca comics.

[Hyper Shinchan]

It will be on a BD50.

Hi mp3dom, how do you know that it'll be on BD50, did you read it somewhere? Or 1.11 was on BD50 and so that should give us reasonable hopes that it'll be on BD50 as well (I've ordered both of them a pair of days ago from my local store, I didn't have the BD of Jo yet)?

[mp3dom]

Hi Hyper Shinchan, I know it'll be on BD50 because I've made the video encoding/authoring process for the italian release.

[Hyper Shinchan]

Hi Hyper Shinchan, I know it'll be on BD50 because I've made the video encoding/authoring process for the italian release.

Thanks for the info! I didn't imagine that Dynit's personal were checking English Eva boards.
Could give us any other detail (e.g.: the menus are completely new or are they similar to the Japanese ones?) or you can't spoil us?