Posts by Vern Dias

  te: The sound is not mono. It's 5.1 SURROUND. Ya'll need a better sound system Nope, it's 2 channel with both channels carrying the same signal.  Which is delivered by the center speaker...

  Quote: One of the biggest mysteries about this film, is just what aspect ratio was it originally projected in back in 1988. None of the original presskits/pressbooks from 1988 mention it, and I have no idea why Disney...

  Quote: I was specifically referring to the 5:1 mix. Have you heard that yet? It's dreadful. That's the mix I was referring to as well.  It's certainly not dreadful. In fact, it is one of the cleanest...

  Quote: The Dumbo multichannel mix is the absolute worst of the worst. Disney had a kind of boxy sound normally, but monkeying around with it digitally only makes it worst. I have to disagree with...

  Quote: Are carbon arc lamps virtually or completely gone? Is it true that theater chains require that lamps be burned down to a very dark level before being replaced? Did a studio,...

70mm blowups from 35mm originals had nothing to do with image resolution enhancement.    It was actually done for two reasons:    To provide for 6 track audio, which was not possible with...

Watched this today on my projection setup from roughly 2X screen height and I saw no obvious color fringing at all.  A wonderful job, and the audio, which is 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, which seems to have been remastered from...

  Quote: I thought the image was much larger in Smilebox     That's because you probably have a 16x9 (1.77:1) screen.  Anyone with a 2.35:1 or greater screen using an aspect ratio control...

I have projected both BD versions of HTWWW in my HT, and the smilebox presentation is much smaller and therefore less impressive on my 2.55:1 screen than the 2.85:1 version.    I would be very much against...

I ran "The Big Country" on it's original release and it did not have an intermission.   Vern