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  1. Vincent_P

    The Conformist 4k set coming.

    I've read lots of articles about Dario Silver thanks to google translate! Vincent
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    UHD Review Bram Stoker’s Dracula UHD Steelbook Review

    I like Ryder in it but find Hopkins to be ridiculously over-the-top and annoying. I always wanted Max Von Sydow to play Van Helsing in a DRACULA adaptation. Vincent
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    The Conformist 4k set coming.

    The Japanese UHD is being regraded to bring it in line with the earlier 2K restoration that Storaro actually supervised. Information and frame examples here (original article is in Japanese so use google translate): https://note.com/tokiolifetime/n/n764909b58f33 Vincent
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    UHD Review Bram Stoker’s Dracula UHD Steelbook Review

    Actually, the entire prologue on the 25th Anniversary release seems to have been scanned from a lower-generation source (maybe a textless IP?), and as a result looks appreciably less detailed than what we have on this new 30th Anniversary release, so it's not just the subtitles themselves. That...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Company of Wolves -- in 4k UHD

    THE BUTCHER BOY is great. SO underrated! Vincent
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Dawn of the Dead (2004)-- in 4k UHD

    Shout's pre-release technical info on this suggested the additional unrated footage was still upscaled from 2K and then intercut with the new 4K negative scan of the theatrical cut. Did you notice any occasional "decrease" in image quality for any of the unrated cut footage, or does it mix...
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    No doubt there are exceptions across all formats. I was talking generally re: how I often find Ultra Stereo mixes to sound to me when decoded to surround vs. a lot of the Dolby mixes from back then. I even made the point that there were very aggressive Dolby matrix mixes at the time, so it...
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    The 5.1 would be a remix, no? Vincent
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    Yeah, I was using the DTS-X upmixer on my receiver, but also switched to Dolby instead and like the results better. The end credits for a lot of movies back in the day had a "Dolby Stereo Consultant" listed, and I suspect they were "steering" things during those mixes, so to speak, to keep...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Halloween Ends -- in 4k UHD

    This one really seems to split fans into love-it or hate-it camps, and I'm firmly on the love-it side. It was surprising to me and I loved that it went off in "different directions", so to speak, rather than being just a by-the-numbers slashathon. Vincent
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    I often find Ultra Stereo mixes to be "more active" than contemporaneous Dolby Stereo mixes. I think Ultra was trying to differentiate itself from Dolby, and Dolby kind of settled into being a more "subtle" format at some point (although there were exceptions and some filmmakers still got...
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    I'm curious, what was the 6.0 channel layout for HEAVEN'S GATE, and how does the 5.1 track on the various Blu-rays and DVDs handle it? I saw the fabled original NYC 70mm premiere print* of the long-version of HEAVEN'S GATE projected at the Library of Congress' Culpepper, VA campus in the spring...
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    Gay-Friendly Blu-rays

    Hey, give them a break, there's a death of actual straight love stories to adapt! ;) Vincent
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    It's a shame that 4.0 discreet SCARFACE mix hasn't been carried over to home video. The remix adds a bunch of new sound effects, and the "legacy" mix on the UHD (and I assume Blu-ray) is a matrixed 2.0 downmix. Vincent
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    I know the difference between full-coat mag as a professional format and 4-track mag on prints, but are you sure that there weren't any 35mm mag prints at the time of CLOSE ENCOUNTER's theatrical release? I swear I read that DePalma's SCARFACE had 35mm 4-track mag prints as late as 1982, and...
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    Were there optical Dolby prints of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS? The tech letter included with the great Criterion Laserdisc set mentions talks about how they arrived at the sound for their LD by encoding the 4-track mag mix through a Dolby encoder. The exact wording from that letter: "A Dolby Surround...
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    The opening of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS is a terrific example! Some of those classic multichannel sound mixes still stand the test of time. In fact, I think many of them might be *better* than what we get today. I feel like there was more care and artistry put into a lot of those mixes, and these...
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    This thread is about movie openings, and I stand by my assessment that the opening of SUPERMAN is a terrific example of sound design. Vincent
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    I *LOVE* the new THE INVISIBLE MAN! Great flippin' movie, and yeah, that entire opening scene is a great sound demo! Vincent
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    Similar to how the original SUPERMAN opens, with the drawn curtains and the 1.33:1 black & white image, then the camera pans up and into the clouds and the titles "whoosh" over the audience with that stirring John William's music. In fact, I'll go ahead and put the opening scenes of SUPERMAN-...
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    I believe the DTS Laserdiscs (and AC3 LDs as well) were essentially just direct ports of the "far field" theatrical sound mixes optimized for large theatrical venues, whereas later DVD versions and beyond were possibly "near field" remixes optimized for smaller home theater rooms. Vincent
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    Press Release Shout Factory Press Release: The Exorcist III (1990) (4k UHD) (Blu-ray)

    The ENTIRE soundtrack on the Studio Canal UHD release of THE FOG is in the wrong sound pitch. Vincent
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    Press Release Shout Factory Press Release: The Exorcist III (1990) (4k UHD) (Blu-ray)

    Re: the 5.1 track on the DVD, notice it says "Remastered in 5.1", not remixed. Since that 5.1 track seems to have the same active channel separation as the actual original matrix-surround 2.0 track as heard on the old Laserdisc and Arrow Blu-ray release, this is why I suspect it's not an actual...
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    My motto is, if my neighbors don't like hearing to my home theater sound system, they can move. Vincent
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    List of most impressive audio demo material to open a movie on physical media?

    The first 10 minutes or so of BLADE RUNNER 2049 in Dolby Atmos. That's my go-to disc when showing off my home theater sound system. The first 10-15 minutes of Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA in either its original 4.0 surround mix or the Dolby Atmos remix on the Synapse UHD is another really great...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - "Death Wish” -- in 4k UHD

    I wonder if they might have accidentally sent over a 4K master that was "optimized for streaming" or something? Streaming bit rates for 4K are NOT a good match with film grain- check out the 4K Dolby Vision streams of the early seasons of SEINFELD on Netflix for proof of that! They look...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - "Death Wish” -- in 4k UHD

    One needs to remember that even "fake UHD" (i.e., 2K DIs uprezzed and such) still have quadruple the color "resolution" than Blu-ray (4:2:0 color being 540 X 960 on Blu-ray, and 1080 X1920 on UHD), and 10-bit color vs. 8-bit color, to boot. This is true even of SDR UHDs in the Rec.709 color...
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Maniac – in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    The Blu-ray and 4K UHDs of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE I'm specifically talking about are both based on the same 4K restoration. Vincent
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    Press Release Criterion Press Release: Romeo and Juliet (1968) (Blu-ray)

    Indeed, which made the 70mm presentation of 2001 at the now defunct Loews Astor Plaza theater in NYC in the year 2001 so frustrating- although the print and projection on their enormous screen were gorgeous, they stupidly removed the intermission from the print! And I was actually waiting for...
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