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Re: What does Warner have against hi res/lossless audio?
WB's marketing dept. doesn't believe its worth it (ala higher bit rate SD DVD audio releases).
"We" will have to prove them wrong or else "they" will continue too do so.
During the "war", wasn't a battle cry of the Blu's that every BD release would have at least an LPCM soundtrack?
[no fighting/the war is over]
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Re: What does Warner have against hi res/lossless audio?
Given the conversation I just had at lunch with a friend of mine who works in the marketing dept. of a big company--it is not surprising at all that such mis-information gets into PR releases. Ah well. Here's another vote for hoping Speed Racer is also slated for the "gold standard" treatment like LA Confidential.
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Re: What does Warner have against hi res/lossless audio?
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Originally Posted by Ed St. Clair
During the "war", wasn't a battle cry of the Blu's that every BD release would have at least an LPCM soundtrack?
[no fighting/the war is over]
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Got it!
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Originally Posted by PeterTHX 09-26-2006 10:40 AM Re: Blu-ray / HD DVD War...the end is near #2873 of 6253
All Sony & Disney titles are multichannel PCM...
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So, NOT about "all" & NOT about "WB".
(however, it was almost two yrs ago! ;-) )
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re: Warner and the question of lossless audio
Even BETTER news ^^^:
thedigitalbits:
"I was told just moments ago, in fact, that the intention is for all Warner catalog titles to feature lossless audio and for all previously-released DVD extras to carry over to the Blu-ray editions if at all possible."
Thanks, Paul!
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re: Warner and the question of lossless audio
Good news indeed.
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re: Warner and the question of lossless audio
I'm glad I refrained from shooting my mouth off before there was some clarification on Warners behalf. It looks like the news is generally good. All that is needed now is a clarification regarding SPEED RACER.
IMO, it would be a big mistake not to have a lossless track on that release. In fact, it would make no sense at all to drop a lossless track from the SPEED RACER release.
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re: Warner and the question of lossless audio
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also up until today, really there has been no indication that Warner was going to try to add lossless
to anything other the high profile.
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I doubt that "Every Which Way But Loose" is high-profile, nor is "Rest Stop: Don't Look Back", but they're getting TrueHD.
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It would be truly odd if they didn't.
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btw i didn't request the (nothing it seems: see post 35) in the title. someone did that on their own.
I don't think it was appropriate as it changes the tone of my intention in posting this topic.
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Well, the concern was answered by Warner, IMO. And yes, "nearly every release" (apart from TV sets) is getting lossless.
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Re: What does Warner have against hi res/lossless audio? (nothing, it seems; see post
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Originally Posted by Jeff Adkins
If it was bad information, it came straight from Warner.
Look here at the back of the jacket of Blow. The only audio listed is "Dolby Digital English 5.1".
Nonetheless, whether it was an oversight or if they're reacting to all the uproar on all the forums, it's great news. |
Pre-release box art is often a mock-up and doesn't always have complete or accurate information. But then again how often have we seen releases that list a 1.85:1 aspect ratio, when the film was originally 2.35:1, only to have the film itself correctly framed on the disc.
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