Recent content by William Kucharski

Unfortunately that Sensurround warning is horrible - it literally uses the audio from a poor quality YouTube clip.

Perhaps the new scan was done based on a 70mm print; 70mm prints had an aspect ratio of 2.20:1 to make room for the magnetic soundtrack.

Having seen it on every home video format available, including the first widescreen version available on LaserDisc, as well as theatrically at the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto, I know what the film is supposed to sound like, and the newly sweetened effects just instantly take me out of the film.

It did. As a huge fan of the movie as a kid, I still remember that they needed to hit speed 180 to take off again. Yes, it looks silly to me today, but it worked well for pre-teen me. :-)

But they do change it slightly. The sequence in the pawn shop on the TV version makes it clear that Jodi's neighbors were telling the truth when they said they had a suitcase of jewels because an old lady just gave it to them. It comes off as merely a lame excuse in the theatrical cut. This...

They could have easily borrowed one of the existing Mark I generators from Dolby and used that and encoded the output onto the LFE track; they did not and in fact I believe the audio tracks are simple ports of the ones from the Universal Blu-ray so the Sensurround track actually has less bass...

Thanks, and thanks for understanding.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean that to be snarky. It's just that the effects are so clearly different in quality from the originals that it's hard to believe they just cleaned them up, but it's always possible. It's just a question of if they did, why the dialogue and music stems continue to be very...

I have ears. If this is simply a cleanup of the original stems, then the dialogue and music must have been recorded at 1 7/8 IPS. It's still jarring and makes it impossible for at least me to view. As an aside, the first release of the restoration of Vertigo had the same problem; the initial...

If you're not extremely sensitive to sound quality and/or very familiar with the original, it may not matter. Personally I'm thankful I have the DVD copy to fall back on because I can't watch and enjoy it the way it is now, rather like the very fake 5.1 surround mix done on the Blu-ray and 4K...

Listen to the YouTube clip I posted earlier. All of the effects obviously sound cleaner, crisper and much more high fidelity than the dialogue or music. You can hear it clearly as the rocks are falling off the cylinder - the sound clearly sounds like 2018, not 1953. This isn't just a clean-up...

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned how unwatchable this version is, at least for me. Why? They redid most if not all of the sound effects, and it's completely jarring as the new effects are obviously digitally recorded high-fidelity versions where the dialogue and music tracks remain the...