Anchor Bay doesn't have a lot of experience with Hong Kong stuff, and apparently didn't realize what was going on until the discs went out the door. To their credit, they're going to stop pressing them and put in the old mono version. I just hope this doesn't sour them on the idea of doing more Hong Kong movies on the grounds that this kind of bizarro shit doesn't happen with the Hollywood and European stuff they usually deal with. But, of course, my third attempt to get a good version of A Better Tomorrow is foiled, at least for a few weeks. The repaired version should be available sometime in early February, and I'm told that incomprehensible subtitles is one problem the disc didn't have.
Hope springs eternal.