Yes. I know all this already. I own a bunch of Warner Archives DVDs so I know their general process (some of my local brick and mortar stores actually do carry some of these MOD discs, amazingly)SteveH wrote:
Warner Archives are (generally) bare-bones Manufacture-On-Demand discs. The project has the dual purpose of generating income via niche/boutique titles that wouldn't otherwise have 'mass' support in the brick&mortar retail environment (which is all but dead now anyway), with the mild (but competent and professionally done) remastering for disc release also serving to prep those same titles for future Video-On-Demand/Streaming income venues.
So, what they make is what they have, actually own in their library. 'Magic Boy' isn't going to have a Japanese language track because they don't have one. That's not what the film was.
It's like The Green Slime. MGM's release was in English.
Although I don't think the Japanese track syncs up with the print they have anyway, so even if they had access to it, it wouldn't be feasible.
