The 5.1 (non-DEHT) track must have been available for quite some time. I've checked my German dvd (the equivalent to your "40th Anniversary Edition", which I own as well) and it contains the unaltered 5.1 tracks for both German and English. So Disney might have gone back to the unaltered track...
@ Ted I received some screenshots for South Pacific via email; the picture looked great compared to the old dvd version. Your word on the improved quality of the new releases and those South Pacific shots are enough for me to justify my purchase. Thanks guys !
Let me ask this again: what about some screenshots from the new releases ? Since I'm quite low on money for dvds I'd like to compare the new discs to the old ones before buying them.
Well, there's been quite a discussion regarding screencaps here lately... but I think some plain shots might be of interest. The "old" pictures are from the initial pan&scan release, the "new" ones from the recent disc (which only contains a 16x9 version without the missing song). Oh well...
I've recently purchased the german rc2 release. The song you mentioned is missing (I don't think we had that one in any previous version here) but picture quality has been vastly improved compared to the horrible pan&scan disc. I'm quite content with that new special edition, nice work (as far...
I recently received my copy of this release (r4) and noticed the somewhat different 5.1 mix for the scope version. In the "barn dance" scene the dancing taps seem to be a little bit out of synch with the music compared to my former release (r2). Is it just me, or did anyone else notice that...