FIFTH ELEMENT - DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 edition available ......
 

.... in Germany. US "SuperBit" release? Not likely. Columbia/TriStar Home Video may not have released all the specs but it's very unlikely that CTHV is using the full potential of DTS. I could rant and rave about STHV and the whole Superbit thing, but I just want to let every forum member who is considering about getting the new "Fifth Element" disc that for $28 bucks you could be getting a whole lot more. CTHV are being total hypocrites about this...."the best in audio and video".... yeah right. What a joke!

Holy cow it's discrete 6.1 DTS? :eek: I thought was was 6.1 with the surround matrixed.

Damn..this Superbit has got to sport that 6.1 DTS sound! :(

I might have to get that region free player.

Does Germany use PAL, SECAM, or ???

PAL is the system.

Stefan

Where did u see this?

Can you post a link?

thanks - Len

I was excited to find this DVD too!
It's a 2 Disc set! Not available in any other regions, and even in R2 it's only sold in Germany. Claims to have 180 mins of extra features!

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P...3.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Disc 1 has German 5.1 EX and 6.1 DTS ES and English 5.1 EX and 6.1 DTS ES.
Disc 2 has 3 making of documentaries, as well as 2 behind the scenes about special effects, german and american trailers, tv spots, something about premiere at Cannes, press conferences, red carpet premiere, MTV Special, biographies, filmographies etc... to the best of my "translation", don't really know German.

Its 50 DMs, which is around 23 US dollars, not too bad, but shipping is another 34 DM so it will cost you 35 bucks to have it shipped to the US, I havent checked on other german sites besides Amazon.de, maybe others have cheaper shipping, here is the link:
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NP1Z

I got a question, how is this transfer? I know it's not the same as the one in US, but is it bad or not, I would buy this just for special features, which i hope are in english? But would love to have it instead of the Superbit DTS version, otherwise I'll have to get Suberbit too and just sell my old US barebones one. Anyone owns this?

I'm also considering purchasing this, but am hoping to hear from someone who owns it...anyone got any opinions on the transfer?

Is this worth getting
 

Am i going to be getting a good deal if i take up this offer on the fifth element or would i be better off waiting on a r1 special edition to be released. also does anyone have any coupons for the amazon.de site

thanks

ed :)

Luc Besson doesn't want to do extras, and considering the SuperBit release is coming I doubt an R1 special edition would be released any time soon. That being said, I only have a 5.1 setup, and these extras don't really interest me, so I'll be going with the SuperBit edition.

when is this available. Amazon doesnt list it as 24 hour shipping

This title has not been released yet, it ship's when released.

which according to amazon is the 4th of Sept. For some strange reason in other Amazon related news they (amazon.co.uk) had the Farscape Season 2 Box 4 available for purchase three days before it's offical UK street date...go figure?

So hwo do you think the transfer is? Could it be much worse than the R1?

It's not discrete
 

From a recent review on a german page it is in fact not discrete but matrixed. In the page's forum someone quoted the manufacturer that they "set the flag wrongly". For those able to read German the thread can be found here .