Blade Runner 2049 (4K Blu-ray SteelBook) (Relite Media Exclusive #001) [Singapore]
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Look into this company.. they seem, errm, suspect. I'd be inclined to say this may be fake. When have you ever heard of physical media from that region either? That's more sweat shop and knockoff territory.
They're essentially an inactive company, with no presence, who suddenly have a contract with sony and have pulled one of their biggest titles, plus secured an official supply from scanavo? It just all smells funny to me
They're essentially an inactive company, with no presence, who suddenly have a contract with sony and have pulled one of their biggest titles, plus secured an official supply from scanavo? It just all smells funny to me
Another 'premium' company out for our money, with the steelbook definitely looking beautiful, BUT it's the same art as those HDZeta lenti slips they were selling for cheap empty, without steelbooks.
Singapore is a very tightly run, least corrupt country in the world, though that doesn't guarantee, of course, these aren't a scam.
I can't say I'm overly familiar with the are, so I'll take your word for it, but this just seems fishy. The sony image is essentially manta's with their logo pasted in, the bulk of of text about the content of the release is a straight drag/drop from Manta too.
Once upon a time who were Manta Lab? First premium retailer out of Hong Kong who out of nowhere got a deal with WB and released Man of Steel. These companies got to start somewhere
You might be right though and they are dodgy and this is a bootleg product that'll get shut down once more people are aware of it just need to wait and see
That's true r.e manta, and I can't say I can remember exactly how they came about initially, but I'd be surprised if it were straight out of the gate with such little presence as these guys.
At least back then you could trust that physical media was officially distributed in most parts of the world, plus, China was widely known for manufacturing and media. Singapore? Hmm.
No it literally was
Back then though it wasn't as much of a talking point as this is as we're referring to a time when the likes of Kimchi and Novamedia were only a few of years old themselves (in terms of producing their own releases at least)
Obviously now we live in a time where we've seen so many bootleg startups that any new kid on the block is going to be met with suspicion
Okay, fair point. It's just a very sus way to kick start something in 2025 imo. So I'll remain sceptical until we see something solid, then I'll happily eat my words and buy it anyway, as it is BR2049 afterall
The other site announced last week that a new company was about to launch with their first release and they're partnering with them for GBs so I think they're legit.
I only recently bought the HMV release with the same cover art so I'm curious to see how the full release looks, think it could look very nice on a steel. I do have more versions of this movie than anything else so I will be tempted but I'm not sure if there's anything we haven't seen already that'll be used.
Love the artwork. Hopefully they can pull this off with a good finish and embossing/debossing and do decent slips as well but as sam said, first title being BR2049 seems ultra suspect.
I don't think we need another premium retailer but I'll definitely take it if we're gonna get releases like these
I mean, it's always good for the customers to have some competition in the market.
And it's not like there are many left with regular output anyway
Well the owner of Manta was involved with another premium steelbook retailer that we all know very well and went on to form Manta. So he knew what he was doing, how it worked and had seen this world of steelbook collecting firsthand through that other retailer. Just saying
It's so funny how the only good looking steelbook of this movie - despite the gorgoeus cinematography and thus material to pull from - is the very first one they released by mondo. No idea how these 'designers' manage to pump out one ugly steelbook after another for this visual masterpiece.
There we are then, that's a bit of a different scenario, and explains how they lifted off. Not quite comparable to a complete fresh face, which we can all but assume this is without further info. I'll remain sceptical for a while yet.
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