French PAPRIKA DVD’s delayed by Sony?

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1. ash_bh 06/20/2007 @ 3:50am

   Hi, I live in France and was waiting today to get my copy of Paprika’s boxset but according to one the biggest shop in France it’s supposed to be out on the 17th of october now....

   http://www4.fnac.com/Shelf/article.aspx?PRID=1976223&OrderInSession;=1&Mn;=3Μ=-13&SID;=7bf88279-cc60-a009-6a65-9c55ac693cb4&TTL;=210620071148&Origin;=FnacAff&Ra;=-3&To;=0Ν=2&UID;=070eda2f2-ef5e-4e58-ca7c-0979f019d721&Fr;=0

   Hope it won’t be so long to get it.....

   Damn!

2. axleu 06/20/2007 @ 4:10am

   I went to a “Manor” shop yesterday, and there were like five DVD of Paprika for sale (at 29,90.- Swiss francs, that’s about 23 $ or 18 Euros). It was the “simple” edition, not the limited one.

3. Ard Vijn 06/20/2007 @ 4:16am

   You’re right!

   Amazon.fr just now lists the regular version as being “in stock”. There goes my theory…

   But thankfully it will mean that the delay for the LE is not strategic in nature, and therefore the 5th of July date could very well be the real one!

   If the regular version is “out there” so to speak, can anyone check if it’s got English subs or not? Amazon still won’t say…

4. ash_bh 06/20/2007 @ 8:43am

   I’ve checked on my regular local shop at the back of the DVD and YES there is an English subtitle track.

   Enjoy!

5. logboy 06/20/2007 @ 8:50am

   couple of points :

   one of the editions is delayed until october - the super-duper one - as far as i know.

   ash-bh, can you confirm english subs on both the DVD and BR as well as the region coding and zones for the discs? thanks.

6. Ard Vijn 06/20/2007 @ 9:27am

   Thanks guys,

   Stellar information! I’ve updated the article.

7. Swarez 06/20/2007 @ 11:17am

   Sweet. Dibs on the Blu Ray version...and then later the super sweet version.

8. Jon Pais 06/20/2007 @ 11:26am

   At the DVDrama forum, in a message dated June 15, a reader posts an e-mail he received from GCTHV after writing them concerning conflicting release date information, which reads (in part), “In order to create new collector “objects” with the help of Satoshi Kon himself, the release of the super edition has been put off until Oct. 17.” No word as yet (from readers who’ve actually played the discs) about subtitling or region-encoding at the site. Couldn’t find any info at DVDclassik, either. I’ll keep checking. Hope this helps.

9. logboy 06/20/2007 @ 11:41am

   i need absolute confirmation on regions and subs on DVD and BR - otherwise it’s not worth getting excited… i suspect, seeing as there’s a german or dutch edition late august with is uber-subbed, that you might have an oddity or the beginnings of a new practice with regards regions and english subs :

   http://www.dvd-palace.de/dvd-datenbank/37615.html

10. Ard Vijn 06/20/2007 @ 12:50pm

    Wow you’re right Log, the German one is Uber-subbed and Uber-dubbed:

    Tonformate (soundtracks):

    Deutsch: Dolby Digital 5.1

    Englisch: Dolby Digital 5.1

    Französisch: Dolby Digital 5.1

    Spanisch: Dolby Digital 5.1

    Polnisch: Dolby Digital 5.1

    Tschechisch: Dolby Digital 5.1

    Italienisch: Dolby Digital 5.1

    Japanisch: Dolby Digital 5.1

    Japanisch: PCM 5.1 (what the hell is that?)

    Untertitel (subs):

    Deutsche Untertitel

    Englische Untertitel

    Türkische Untertitel

    Dänische Untertitel

    Schwedische Untertitel

    Norwegische Untertitel

    Holländische Untertitel

    Italienische Untertitel

    Französische Untertitel

    Spanische Untertitel

    Portugiesische Untertitel

    Polnische Untertitel

    Griechische Untertitel

    Tschechische Untertitel

    Ungarische Untertitel

    Kroatische Untertitel

    Isländische Untertitel

    Slowenische Untertitel

    Bulgarische Untertitel

    Hebräische Untertitel

    Arabische Untertitel

    Hindische Untertitel

    The shape of things to come? This would make it pretty much worldwide! Well, except for the region 2 mentioned…

11. Swarez 06/20/2007 @ 2:10pm

    Huh, Icelandic subtitles. How about that. That probably means that we will be getting it soon as well.

12. logboy 06/21/2007 @ 1:11am

    animeondvd.com forums has a post from someone with the BR in-hand and it states it’s A/B/C zoned, and that not only the feature is subbed in english (mentions that there’s ‘various languages’ on there) but that there seems to be subs on the additional features too. ordered via amazon.fr just now - 30euros / $40USD / £20 including delivery. nice.

13. Bart 06/21/2007 @ 1:49am

    The Paprika dvd is out now in Holland aswell, it even has an audio commentary and english subs..It came out on the 19th

14. Ard Vijn 06/21/2007 @ 1:59am

    Tough. I expected to have the super-duper edition on the same day as the regular, but now that there are 4 months dividing them I’ll have to make a choice.

    Wait or buy? Curses…

    Also, can anyone tell me if there are English subs for the Audio Commentary of the French version?

15. Swarez 06/21/2007 @ 6:47am

    They are most likely all the same disc with all the same features. I’ve noticed that with the Sony anime movies that they’ve distribute here in Europe in the past. The only difference is the language on the covers.

16. toddly6666 06/21/2007 @ 12:46pm

    Hi, I live in Switzerland and I picked up the Regular 2-disk DVD of PAPRIKA. They also had the Blu-Ray DVD as well.

    I checked both disks and I will confirm:

    FILM: French or Japananese DD 5.1, Japanese DTS; anamorphic video;

    English, French, Arab subtitles.

    NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES on the audio commentary (only french subtitles)

    EXTRAS: Every single extra has English subtitles, and also plentiful other subtitles in other languages. (It’s wierd that there are only three language subtitles on the movie, but there are about 10 different language subtitles for the extras).

17. toddly6666 06/21/2007 @ 12:57pm

    I would like to also add that this DVD is certainly PAL REGION 2. I have a multi-region DVD player so it played fine on that, but on my laptop computer, which is set for NTSC DVDs, the PAPRIKA DVD did not work. I know once in a while that some non-Region 1 NTSC DVDs or PAL dvds sometimes work on my NTSC DVD-rom, but the French PAPRIKA certainly is not All-Region.

18. Ard Vijn 06/21/2007 @ 6:04pm

    Thanks toddly6666,

    that information is much appreciated.

    It means that I’ll probably buy the Dutch version available now, so I can check the commentary with subs in a language I know. Then in October I’ll double-dip for the French super-duper and make someone in my neighborhood happy with my regular version.
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