Off the top of my head, Zodiac and Serenity are two blu-rays that do this pretty extensively. In a few weeks, my wife and I are going to be premiering Serenity for some Firefly-loving friends, and I am going to cue up the film past the menu before they arrive, for this reason. The menus spoil a few scenes.
I'll applaud them if-and-when they've not only addressed the default soundtrack issue for future releases, but have also done it for already released titles so I don't keep having to wonder if I'm rewatching a Warner title that needs the audio changed. That issue still peeves me a bit at times whenever I rewatch an older DVD (and don't want to have to look it up, etc. etc. first). :f And yes, you read me right. I do mean they should try to fix the default issue for old releases too considering the format has more capability to allow something like that now (than DVD ever did). Either that or it'd be great if player makers can offer new players (and firmware updates for old ones) that allow us to override the authoring on those old titles so we don't need to continue to remember to do it manually for them (like I do w/ older DVDs).
They made the intelligent choice of having their BDs start with an audio track that they know the player can play back, and not risk people returning the movie because "the sound doesn't work". I can't help but feel that their new philosophy will bite them on the ass soon...
No it won't, because Warner is doing what they've always done and what is, in fact, required by the BD spec: including a DD "compatability track" with the TrueHD track (DD being a required format for Blu-ray, and TrueHD being an optional one). If the player does not have TrueHD capability or is set in such a way that TrueHD can't be played, the disc "falls back" to the DD track. This is how Sony has always mastered their Blu-rays, and I am not aware of Sony getting reports of sound not working, even though Sony's DD "compability track" generally isn't even listed as a menu option.
