Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Australia UltraHD ADDED

[Matthew_B_Harrah]

Title: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) [Blu-ray already on site.]
Country: Australia
Region: ALL
Releasing Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Case Type: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Codec: (UHD HEVC) (BR AVC MPEG-4)
Picture: (UHD 2160p) (BR 1080p)
Soundtracks:
UHD:
English Dolby Atmos
English Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
French (Parisian) Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
German Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Japanese Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Spanish Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
French (Canadian) Dolby Digital 5.1
English Audio Descriptive Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
BR:
English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
Kazak Dolby Digital 5.1
Russian Dolby Digital 5.1
English Audio Descriptive Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
Subtitles (optional):
UHD: Cantonese, English HoH, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin (Traditional), and Spanish
BR: English HoH, French, and Spanish
Cuts: (and if you know it, precise run time)
Running Time: (Both 135:46)
Amazon ASIN (UK, French, German, USA releases only):
Source:
(UHD) http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Re ... p?ID=11536
(BR) http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Re ... p?ID=11532

DISC ONE (Blu-ray 4K)
* The Film (2160p)

DISC TWO (Blu-ray)
* The Film (1080p)
Audio commentary by James Gunn
"Visionary Intro" featurette (1:39)
"Bonus Round: The Making of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" 4 part documentary
- "In the Director's Chair with James Gunn" (8:36)
- "Reunion Tour: The Music of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" (7:37)
- "Living Planets and Talking Trees: The Visual Effects of Vol. 2" (10:44)
- "Showtime: The Cast of Vol. 2" (10:41)
"Guardians Inferno" music video by The Sneepers Ft. David Hasselhoff (3:35) (1080i)
Gag Reel (3:41)
Deleted Scenes (5:04)
- Adolescent Groot: Extended (1:01)
- Memorial to the War on Xandar (1:18)
- Kraglin and Quill Talk Tunes (0:41)
- Mantis and Drax Feel the Sadness: Extended (2:03)

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

Is it certain the UHD has a Chinese language dub? (and if so, Mandarin or Cantonese?)
I emailed the writer years ago about this but never received a reply. Can you confirm?

[Matthew_B_Harrah]

Is it certain the UHD has a Chinese language dub? (and if so, Mandarin or Cantonese?)
I emailed the writer years ago about this but never received a reply. Can you confirm?

I just typed down what the review said. However, it could be possible that the contains both and reviewer just got lazy and went with Chinese. Since the subtitles contain Chinese & Mandarin. Or at least that's thought.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

Could you check with him and confirm? I did once before and though he answered, he didn't double check.

[Matthew_B_Harrah]

Could you check with him and confirm? I did once before and though he answered, he didn't double check.

I added a comment asking if the Chinese audio is Mandarin or Cantonese or both. So hopefully he may answer.

[Alister_Manson]

It has both Cantonese and Traditional Mandarin subtitles. No Chinese audio that I'm aware of but I can check that when I get home.

[Matthew_B_Harrah]

It has both Cantonese and Traditional Mandarin subtitles. No Chinese audio that I'm aware of but I can check that when I get home.

Thanks, Alister. We look forward to finally knowing this.

My assumption has been that it's mostly likely Mandarin audio given that Cantonese is kind of like Catalan (in Spain) and that it's only added as secondary audio track after the main language is offered. As far as I know Cantonese is only spoken around the Hong Kong area.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

I doubt there is any Chinese language audio and should have Japanese like the US/UK discs have. I would find it very odd that Disney would author a disc with most of the audio and subtitles from an existing disc, remove Japanese options, and add a Chinese dub track.

[Matthew_B_Harrah]

Yes it is kind of odd for Disney to do that, but then again Disney just does their own thing. Rather than doing what most of the other big studios do for their UltraHD titles; having almost every language available in both audio and subtitles. Sony being the best example, most of the time, with extra languages not featured on the menu.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

Sony being the best example, most of the time, with extra languages not featured on the menu.

What do you mean by this?

[Matthew_B_Harrah]

Sony being the best example, most of the time, with extra languages not featured on the menu.

What do you mean by this?

I probably should phrased that but better, was trying say it in the shortest way.
Sony tends to have more languages options than most of its competitors. At least most of the time because some times there are releases that don't carry as much (probably due to marketing second guessing which places in the world would actually watch "title"). They tend to have so much languages options that the menu doesn't even show them. You have press the audio button when watching to view the entire audio/subtitle listings. Though it should be noted sometimes in the subtitles it might be subs for signs/text. So that sometimes may be why some subtitles don't show on the menu, because they activate when that foreign language is chosen. I may be getting a little to technical in my thought processing.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

My experience with Sony Blu-rays - they list every language in the audio subtitle menus, with nothing hidden. Not sure what examples you have of Sony not listing subs in their menus, unless you are talking UHD, which I don’t have any to check myself.

Do you have any example discs?

[Matthew_B_Harrah]

My experience with Sony Blu-rays - they list every language in the audio subtitle menus, with nothing hidden. Not sure what examples you have of Sony not listing subs in their menus, unless you are talking UHD, which I don’t have any to check myself.

Do you have any example discs?

I was talking about UHDs.
With the few I've done for the site. It usually takes longer to type-up the sub/audio than the rest of the comparison. Mainly due to the menu design, you have keep down page after page. I wish they just have a page or two, something similar to the old Warner design. It would look more professional and save a lot of scrolling down for certain languages, but I also have only 4 Sony UHD's (last one being Godzilla 1998), so who knows, maybe their design has change or is due for one. After all their UHD menu designs [like other companies] was obviously meant to give the user a feel of something-new/quasi-high-tech.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

So all the subtitles are in the menu, just needing to scroll through the pages. That doesn't seem like anything is "hidden", like the way Warner/Fox does things, but it doesn't seem like they are not listing languages that are on the disc, but not on the menu...

[Matthew_B_Harrah]

It's not so much hidden. Just some releases of UHD sometimes have more options if you press the subtitle or audio button on your remote.

It's part of the reason why I always check to see when the movie is in play if there is more. And sometimes you tell me if its not on the menu then don't add it.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

If it’s something like signs and text for dub tracks then it is not necessary to add. But for example the disc has Romanian subtitles, but it’s not listed in the menu itself, we do want to list that, along with a note like “Romanian not listed in the menus”.

[Matthew_B_Harrah]

Okay, I'll do my best to remember that the next time I come around that.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

Matthew or Alister, any updates?

[Matthew_B_Harrah]

Matthew or Alister, any updates?

Still haven't gotten a reply back yet.

Did a little searching online here and there, but nothing yet.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

So it looks like the specs for the audio have suddenly changed entirely, and there are no Japanese audio or subtitles on the UHD?