November/December Trapdoor Release Schedule with Annotations

[Beck38]

Here is the latest Trapdoor release schedule;

I'll try and keep up (not a stretch, as it averages around 3-4 per week), denoting those that are released in the third section below. Those not on the board are denoted by a '*', and of course, if you don't have search capabilities built into your newsreader, I always suggest Binsearch.


TRAPDOOR PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING
*COMPLETE* NTSC DVD9/DVD5'S FOR NOVEMBER:


RELEASED DURING NOVEMBER:


A FISH CALLED WANDA (2DISC COLLECTORS EDITION)
BLAST OF SILENCE (CRITERION)
HOW THE WEST WAS WON (3DISC SPECIAL EDITION)
NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (2DISC COLLECTORS EDITION)
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
RISKY BUSINESS (25TH ANNV EDITION)
TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNER CHRONICLES (SEASON 1 3DISC SET)
PORT OF SHADOWS (CRITERION)
SEX AND DEATH 101
BEETLEJUICE (25TH ANNV EDITION)
TRUE STORY OF CHARLIE WILSON
HIGH AND LOW (2DISC CRITERION)
GIGI (2DISC SPECIAL EDITION)


AND MORE TO COME:

PIONEERS OF TELEVISION
FALLEN IDOL (CRITERION)
HAIRSPRAY (2DISC SPECIAL SHAKE AND SHIMMY EDITION)
THE HAPPENING
CHRISTMAS STORY (2DISC 20TH ANNV EDITION)
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (2DISC SPECIAL EDITION)
DOLLARS ($)
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKuLL (2DISC SPECIAL EDITION)
DOWN BY LAW (2DISC CRITERION EDITION)
CHILD'S PLAY (20TH ANNV EDITION)
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
COLONEL BLIMP (CRITERION EDITION)
vIDEODROME (2DISC CRITIERION EDITION)
SLEEPING BEAUTY (2DISC PLATINUM EDITION)
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923 SPECIAL EDITION)



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Released:

* AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (2DISC SPECIAL EDITION)
* TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
* INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKuLL (2DISC SPECIAL EDITION)
* COLONEL BLIMP (CRITERION EDITION)
* HAIRSPRAY (2DISC SPECIAL SHAKE AND SHIMMY EDITION)
* HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923 SPECIAL EDITION)
* PIONEERS OF TELEVISION
* SLEEPING BEAUTY (2DISC PLATINUM EDITION)
* CHRISTMAS STORY (2DISC 20TH ANNV EDITION)
* vIDEODROME (2DISC CRITIERION EDITION)
* CHILD'S PLAY (20TH ANNV EDITION)
* THE HAPPENING
* DOLLARS ($)
* DOWN BY LAW (2DISC CRITERION EDITION)
* FALLEN IDOL (CRITERION)


AND YET MORE IN THE PIPELINE (MARK YOUR CALENDAR)!

THE CRYING GAME (COLLECTORS EDITION)
TORCHWOOD (SEASON 2 5DISC)




TRAPDOOR IS DEDICATED TO POSTING THE MOST ACCURATE, VIDEO_TS (NON-ISO) COMPATABLE
DVD9 COMPILATIONS WITH *COMPLETE* (INCLUDING ROM/JACKET FILES!) DISC MATERIALS
(READY FOR PRE-PROCESSING OR BURNING WITH PROPER DVD9 TOOLS LIKE DVDREMAKE,
PGCEDIT/IMGBURN OR GEAR SW) FOR THE USENET COMMUNITY, WITH PREFERENCE GIVEN TO
THOSE REVIEWED AS THE BEST VIDEO AND AUDIO AVAILABLE, WITH HIGH-QUALITY RE-ISSUES
OF CLASSIC TITLES, IN FULL DVD9 FORMAT.

YOU MAKE THE DECISION! YOU DO THE RECODE/SPLIT/STRIP/DVD9, WHATEVER WAY YOU WANT!
ALL EXTRAS AND BONUS MATERIALS ALWAYS THERE!

REMEMBER, ALL TRAPDOOR RELEASES ARE PASSWORD PROTECTED WITH WINRAR TO ALLOW PROPER
DISTRIBUTION THROUGH USENET; NFO'S AND NZB'S (WITH PASSWORD KEYFILE) ARE RELEASED
*ONLY* AFTER COMPLETE VERIFICATION OF FILES AND DISTRIBUTION (USUALLY 45 DAYS),
WELL WITHIN THE RETENTION OF MAJOR PREMIUM PROVIDERS.

FOR THOSE 'ON THE CHEAP' UTILIZING THE LOW-RETENTION/LOW-COMPLETION SERVERS, TAKE A
LOOK AT THE 'BLOCK' ACCOUNTS AVAILABLE AT ASTRAWEB OR USENET-NEWS AMONG OTHERS.

***"MOST 'PROBLEMS' ARE SOLVED BY UTILIZING TWO SIMPLE TECHNIQUES:
1. USE THE POSTED NZB FILE AND YOU'LL GET ALL THE FILES INCLUDING PAR2 REPAIR FILES
AND PW FILE.
2. USE QUICKPAR TO PROPERLY REPAIR ANY TRANSMISSION GLITCHES IN THE RECIEVED FILES" ***

ALL NFO'S CONTAIN PROPER DISC IDENTIFICATION THROUGH COMMERCIAL SITES; NO WONDERING
WHICH EDITION IT IS!

***AND REMEMBER: ALWAYS USE ORIGINAL GENERATED/POSTED NZB (ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!) OR
YOU SIMPLY WON'T D/L THE KEYFILE!


SO WATCH FOR TRAPDOOR NFO'S AND NZB'S IN THE DAYS AHEAD!

[Funkin']

Thank you Beck.

[sjoerdzet]

great a new list, thank Beck, and greetz from HOLLAND

[piratebot]

i'm wondering why the all caps.

[basilhaydens]

Copy and paste, obviously.

Thanks again Beck!

[piratebot]

yeah i know, wondering about the original author

[basilhaydens]

He's an angry fellow, I'd bet.

[Beck38]

When these first starting appearing almost 3 years ago, the number of dvd9's posted on usenet were....

pretty slim. Recodes (most of them pretty poor, and virtually all of them stripped of all the extras and decent audio (like DTS tracks). Now, there are tons of dvd9's, even old movies.

Still a bit lean on some of the re-releases ('double-dips'), and the bonus/extras Disc 2's of multi-disk sets. But there are a bit. It's gotten TONS better.

But I do LOTS of combing, and around 90+% of these are not to be found anywhere. Definitely not on Netflix, that's for sure.

Pretty slow posting, but I it's pretty rare to have to 'repair' any of the postings. In a lot of cases, recode versions are to be found, but like I said, devoid of any (usually) extras and 2nd disks.

[basilhaydens]

Yeah finding dvd9s like these is hard indeed.

On torrents it is almost impossible. But some sites have them...

[Beck38]

Yeah finding dvd9s like these is hard indeed.

On torrents it is almost impossible. But some sites have them...

There have been quite a few decent, recent, releases lately (Kunk Fu Panda, Hellboy2, the new 08 Incredible Hulk) but like I said, all these are 2 Disk sets devoid of the 2nd Disk. BUT...

lots of 2 Disk Criterion sets from someone who, unfortunately, decides to post with extremely slim pars (at least two of the sets I've had to reach back into my OLD bag of tricks, and use some bits from servers other than Giganews), in order to grab the boated 400MB parts that were corrupted (even though they were posted on Giganews (!) but were corrupted d/l'ing from there, GO FIGURE).

The Lady Vanishes (new 2 Disk version I'd be trying to find for ages!), the 2 Disk Casablanca, and 2 Disk Young Mr. Lincoln (which I already had).

I go and look occasionally at my Giganew 'stats', and it averages around 350GB/month (almost jaw dropping), but my ultimate was actually some 3 or so years ago with over 450GB. I think I must have fallen off the wagon a bit then, was in dire need of 'down loaders anonymous' or something.

I have a decent machine that's set up to do CCE/recodes and burning... got to. This is an 'industrial operation'.