i just checked my tracking info on my halloween tripple feature from amazon.ca and it now shows as in Los Angeles. expected delivery tommorow!!!!! AWESOME can not wait hopefully the DHL international driver, will leave it either under my door or with my neighbor if it comes while iam at work.

meanwhile inspite them billing my card last week when i ordered axelmusic still has not shipped it, yet inspite it showing in stock.

thank goodness i forgot to cancel my amazon.ca order

Cancelled my axelmusic order as well and went back to Amazon CA which should ship out today. Guess you just gotta stick with what works.

Mine shipped the 8th

Ordered a few days ago from axelmusic.com...it was in stock...now my order says "Backordered with supplier. Awaiting stock arrival".

ordered yesterday morning and just received it in perfect shape via DHL.

Still waiting for my copy, yet still no confirmation if Curse and H20 are 1080i or 1080p. Even on that Blu-ray forum post.

I'll check if my copy comes I'll check.

I now have my copy in my hands from Amazon.ca so very glad i forgot to cancel my order with them not only did it end up getting here faster but ended up being cheaper as well.

Meanwhile axelmusic still hasnt shipped it despite having charged my card last wed, they dont respond to emails and the thing on their site saying you can talk to them online via chat, is bs, cause the last two days i logged on to my IM and they never once showed as being online durring the hours they mention. I went ahead and click cancel order i hope that my money is back on my card in a few days. well theres another online retailer on my donot use list

How was it cheaper? Amazon.ca was $30ish shipped and Axel was $25 shipped.

I posted the other day when i got an email from amazon saying it had shipped and broke down how the invoice was priced and and how it listed on my credit card.

here it is again below
I guess at some point after i had placed the order back in December it had dropped to 17.99 CAN before going back to 21.99 CAN and the now current price of 19.99 CAN plus shipping

but as i listed in my earlier post my card was only charged 24.32 so while iam confused iam also not complaining either

I believe they are 1080i. I know that at least 2 of the films are, but I can't remember which 2 they were.

just got a "shipping soon" notice from axelmusic.

should have it within the week, hopefully.

Got mine yesterday from Axelmusic.

watched all 3 last night and no complaints from me as far as audio and video quality goes.

oh and dvdaf.com has finally added the release to their database.

i watched H20 last night have to say this is the best its looked since i saw it in the theatre.

^looking forward to H20. Can't believe we never got anamorphic discs of this or Scream after all these years.

I watched my copies of H20 and Scream on blu-ray over the last couple of days. The Halloween Triple pack is definitely worth the money. Hope we get Halloween 2, 4, and 5 soon.

Rick

4 and 5 are due this year, 2 and 3...hahah. Universal would have to care about catalog and they don't.

Some thoughts of mine from elsewhere on the image quality seen on The Faculty BD...

Due to the economics of bringing older films to Blu-ray, many older and less popular titles are unlikely to see a retail release on the format by the major Hollywood studios in the foreseeable future. Large swaths of Disney's catalog of older movies are being ignored on Blu-ray. The Faculty is a Miramax property in the U.S., which has been folded under Disney's complete control on home video. Alliance is the Canadian distributor for this movie, and gave the 1998 horror film a proper release on October 6, 2009. Unfortunately it is locked to Region A, so Europeans will not be able to play it without the benefit of a modified player.

The main feature runs 104-minutes in length and is correctly presented at 1080p resolution, contrary to the packaging claims on the back listed at 1080i resolution. Video is encoded using AVC and the disc is a BD-25. Without a BDInfo scan available, the best estimate for the average video bitrate is approximately 20 Mbps, based off the bitrate meter. The movie's intended aspect ratio is 1.85:1, while Alliance has used a transfer that is slightly opened up to 1.78:1, a common practice by many studios when releasing on home video.

Compression and authoring are credited to a Montreal firm, La Boîte Numérique. They have handled some of the other Alliance titles in the past. Encoding parameters are lower than a typical U.S. release. Peak bitrates rarely exceed 27.8 Mbps, and most of the video encode ranges from 14.8 Mbps to 24.6 Mbps. The picture is mostly devoid of artifacts. The only moments where the lower bitrates show some macroblocking are the times with little available light for the camera. Darker scenes display an enhanced grain pattern that the encode does not replicate well. Luckily there are few scenes of this type in the movie.

The disc looks made from an older high-definition telecine transfer. Gamma looks a touch too high, with slightly washed-out contrast and colors. That being said, the master is totally unprocessed in appearance. Aside from sporadic and minor ringing in the final act that may or may not be the result of edge enhancement, halos are never a problem. Shorts bouts of softness are more the problem than anything. Clearly no digital noise reduction has been applied, as grain looks untouched and high-frequency information is left intact. While the term “film-like” is probably overused in reviews, the Blu-ray appears faithful to the original cinematic quality of the film negative. Print damage is really minimal in quantity aside from a couple of white specks and tiny hairs.

Detail is about average and shows a moderate upgrade in clarity from the dvd. The flesh-colored tape over the actress' breasts in the nude scene is much easier to spot on the Blu-ray. A ranking anywhere from tier 2.75 to 3.25 makes the most sense. Is this the best The Faculty could look on Blu-ray? My hunch is Disney could surpass it in picture quality with a new transfer from the original film elements , but that is unlikely to happen. Fans will likely be pleased with the picture quality of this exclusive selection from Canada. Nothing happens that approaches demonstration quality at any moment. A few scenes of the football players outdoors look better than average. But most of the film is relatively flat in depth and dimensionality.

This actually sounds pretty accurate on every level... despite some flaws, I still loved the Blu-ray though. The DVD was non-anamorphic so that alone made this a worthy upgrade.

Yep, Curse and H20 are 1080i and Resurrection is 1080p.

I picked up another Canadian title, The Cell, and here are my thoughts on the BD.

Another exclusive Blu-ray courtesy of Alliance debuted on July 7, 2009 in Canada. The BD includes the 107-minute theatrical cut of the movie only. A director's cut that runs approximately two minutes longer has been available on dvd outside of North America and is not included. Like most other Blu-rays from Alliance, the main feature is encoded using AVC and on a BD-25 at the proper resolution of 1080p. The film is correctly formatted in its proper aspect ratio of 2:35:1, preserving the eye-pleasing framing and imaginative compositions of director Tarsem Singh.

Sadly the compression suffers at times. The extremely low-bitrate encode often remains stuck in the lower teens. Compression noise and banding, while not rampant, are visible on occasion and too numerous for me to point out each specific scene. Touches of macroblocking also manifest in dimly-lit scenes. Clearly a sub-par job which should not be happening this far into the Blu-ray era. The same firm that handled The Faculty Blu-ray authored The Cell, but video-bitrates looked substantially lower this time for whatever reason. No BDInfo scan exists yet for me to parse the numbers in more detail.

For a catalog title from 2000, the transfer elements look in solid, if not good, condition overall. Other than a hint of dust and the slight haze of the original photography, the picture is clean when the original photography allows. The overtly stylized fantasy-scenes do show marked differences in picture quality than what happens in the actual world. Contrast becomes much deeper and black levels get marginally crushed on purpose. The apparent grain of the opening scenes in the desert look slightly magnified by optical processes endemic to the film and the age of the master.

The Cell still looks good for the most part, though not the demonstration material I was hoping. Outside of the fantasy world the image is nicely sharp, though the color palette favors a blue-tinted shade to it that flattens the image. Inside the killer's mind is a dream-like visual experience that becomes softer with a wildly different coloring. Detail is apparent and shows no signs of having been removed by digital noise reduction. Outside of a few halos on high-contrast edges, edge enhancement is not visible.

An okay effort by Alliance, The Cell belongs somewhere in the middle of tier two. Parts of it are better than that no doubt, while certain stylized scenes would rank much lower in their own right. If the American rights were held by a studio I trust to do a great job on the transfer, I would tell you to hold off on picking up this import. But Warner Bros. simply can not be trusted in that regard and are unlikely to improve much upon the Alliance BD outside of extras.

The new Steven Seagal movie The Keeper was released today on Blu-Ray in Canada only by Alliance. There is no other region A version available. Its Specs are 1080p high definition 16x9 1.78:1, english:5.1 DTS-HD MA. There are no extras and is probably a Single Layered disc.

Awesome, I was wondering what that amazon.ca listing was... We have these all coming soon:
-5150, Rue des Ormes (Alliance, Feb. 2 '10)
-Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (VVS, 1.78:1, Feb. 23 '10)
-Bon Cop, Bad Cop (Alliance, Mar. 10 '10)
-Broken Embraces (sony, 2.35:1, Mar. 16 '10) *US ANNOUNCEMENT PENDING?*
-The Keeper (Alliance, 1080p, 1.78:1, DTA MA, no subs) *OUT NOW!!*
-Martin Matte: Condamné à l excellence (Mar. 16 '10)
-Mortal Kombat (Alliance, 1.78:1, no subs, Mar. 23 '10)
-Mortal Kombat Annihilation (Alliance, 1.78:1, no subs, Mar. 23 '10)
-Pour toujours, les Canadiens! (TVA, Mar. 23 '10)
-WWE: Best of Raw 2009 (E1, Jan. 26 '10)

Major guilty pleasure alert!