Posts by Dan Brecher

I am almost reminded of that time back in 1997 when the world lost Robert Mitchum and Jimmy Stewart within days of each other. To lose Goldsmith, Raksin, and now Bernstein in such a short space of time is deeply upsetting. I remember...

Quote: Is the Symphony DVD going to include a complete concert or is it only a making of ? Shore detailed this disc to those of us who attended the Q&A session at the Royal College of Music in London back...

Quote: but after seeing the LOTR Symphony in June, the fifth disc to this is like a gift from god. If it has any of the performances in 5.1, I am in heaven. Whether or not any of it will be in 5.1 I have no...

Quote: His passing is sad to hear. How long was he fighting cancer for? Well over a year now. I first heard about it back in 2002 and he’d been off and on with complications ever since. His passing was something...

I thought it may be an idea to actually throw in an additional comment about the DVD as they seem somewhat of a rarity in this thread. Seeing as all previous issues of the first two films faced a lot of scrutiny regarding their 5.1...

Quote: We in England are WAY behind in HDTV technology. None of our broadcasters are transmitting in HDTV and, to my knowledge, there isn't a single HDTV on the market. JVC have a CRT television out here that...

Quote: So, we are stuck with the edge enhancement, etc. only to be even more clearly defined? It depends. It would surely vary on whether such 'enhancements' were introduced to the HD master or are brought in to...

Thanks, Brian. That's an allowance of 70 minutes of supplements (I'm assuming we're talking standard definition here) for single layer BD-Rom however, is that right? Dan (UK)

Quote: If MPEG-4 (H.264) or WM-HD files show up on HD-DVD having color banding issues (as most of the demos show so far) and are over-compressed compared to what the capabilities of HD-DVD are, then you can color me...

Quote: I'll be unsurprised and unhappy if HD-DVD uses only Dolby Digital for compressed audio. I heard that the main reason that HD-DVD's audio wasn't approved at the last meeting was because it included DTS. Why else would...