Recent content by Vern Dias

I'm curious as to what happened to the audio track on "The Lion In Winter"? Where's the bass? I have an older release and the difference in the title music is night and day. The lowest octaves are totally missing on the new release. It almost sounds as if someone forgot to apply the proper...

Just a heads up: This release has serious audio issues. It has absolutely no bass. It's like they took the original mag masters and forgot to apply the proper NAB audio curve to it. The lower octaves are completely absent, most noticble on music and effects. I have the earlier bluray...

It was a full coat (35mm with magnetic oxide across the full width) element which was used extensively for mastering. From Wikipedia, describing Command records use of 35mm fullcoat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_Records Movie studios often employed the same technology for audio...

I scan them and use them in my home brew MySql / PHP media inventory app.

2.55:1 was the standard AR for 'Scope magnetic sound prints since there was no optical track to take up space on the print. The center line of the image was also slightly different. 2.35:1 was the standard for AR for 'Scope optical sound prints. When Fox introduced MagOptical prints back in...

They likely did, but you you were only seeing maybe 70 % of the actual height of the frame on the film at the horizontal center point of the image due to the way the aperture plates had to be cut to avoid having the image spill off the top and bottom of the screen.

It was shown on a "curved" screen but the depth of curve was nowhere near what was used for Cinerama. It was much closer to what was used for CinemaScope. IMHO Smilebox on Todd-AO would be a travesty. If you had seen what had to be done with aperture plates to present the single strip...

Yes it did. I had a 35mm IB Tech print long ago that definitely had the Perspecta tones on it. I also had a DIY Perpecta Sound integrator back then. None of the few prints I had survived, either going vinegar or going pink, so I got rid of my 35mm titles and equipment about 25 years ago.