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That sounds like an endorsement to me. And I realize I'm treading on thin ice here, since I've had two final warnings, but all I've ever done in this forum is discuss a defective DVD. I've never cursed, I've never insulted anyone, I've never crticized any of the new edits or anything...

Perhaps, but the forum owner giving a full endorsement for an obviously defective product after receiving a tour from the people involved with that product does seem awfully suspicious. A few years ago this site would have been outraged that such a mistake happened to such a high profile...

Read this. It's disturbing actually. Neil

Before I watched it on my system I re-calibrated it with AVIA and my analog Radio Shack SPL meter. I set every channel to precisely 80db SPL. Thanks, I like it too. Neil

That's an awfully easy way to totally write off Williams' contribution to Star Wars. One of the great things about Star Wars is the music and the efforts that Mr. Williams put into it. This new DVD, and your comment, do a great disservice to his music. Even George Lucas has said, "I like to...

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Kipp, Check your private messages. Neil

Your July 1977 video tape is the mono mix. Neil

I said I wouldn't be back, but I wanted to publicly accept Doug's apology. No hard feelings. Oh, and I had to acknowledge a completely uninformed comment.... Go here for more info so in the future you can make educated comments. Neil

Read my lips. This is very simple. TOTAL LIARS When the next version of these comes out on whatever video format, I bet the music will be mixed properly in the surround channels. If it was a creative decision, I'm sure it would have been done for all of the films...

Mark, read this. Neil

Alexandra DuPont at DVD Journal has posted a review. Neil

What are you going on about? Seth said, "I'm assuming the music was recorded in stereo, so what's the sound track doing in the rears? From a purist point of view, shouldn't it just been left in the front L/R channels, and maybe the center?" and I answered his question. Almost everything is...

Well the discs aren't out yet. They missed it. I missed the reversed music in the surround channels on my one full viewing but when I went back to investigate the missing music (again) I realized that there was an error with the surrounds. Then I hope everyone enjoys their flawed...

Your bringing my tribute to Mr. Goldsmith into this debate, as a way to possibly discredit me, was entirely disrespectful Neil

It's the entire mix. Violins are just the easiest thing for me to localize. The tuba part I mentioned earlier is also indicative of a mistake made. Star Wars was a 16 track music recording. Neil

Regarding TMP, the titles were re-done for video with great care to make sure that they didn't look like "done on video" titles. Compare this with the re-done for video end titles on these Star Wars DVDs or even the SE LDs, which look like video and not film. And TMP's 5.1 music mix was...

Another thing is every comment I've made has been about Star Warsonly. I didn't detect any music problems from the clips of Empire I've watched, but I have heard some new effects in comparison to the original mix. I haven't bothered with Jedi. Neil

A bit stream is a bit stream regardless of the source. DVDs are merely computer discs and the data, once encoded, can not be screwed up to reverse music but keep effects in the right place. For a mistake to happen like this, it has to happen prior to encoding. A digital bit stream can't decide...

Play it on your home theater (which I'm guessing is properly calibrated) and tell me if you really hear it. It's supposed to be audible from the main channels, just like every other piece of music in the movie. It's been completely dialed out from them and is totally inaudible from the remnants...

That change was there in 1997 as well. Neil

My father got the RX-V9 last month, and one of the nice things about that receiver is that it has Yamaha's YPAO circuitry for automatically setting up the speakers. It automatically tests phasing and sets distance, size, equalization and level. I set the supplied mic on a tripod in the proper...

When playing the film through a properly calibrated home theater with all the channels engaged at reference level the music is inaudible. I've played it through 2 top quality home theaters. One of them used a Yamaha RX-V9, which is a THX Ultra certified reciever with a complete and thorough...

No frames are missing as the music has always been cut there. However, since they went back to the original mixing stems for this release and made an attempt to present everything in a pristine fashion, old music edits that may have been covered by reverb or other processing in 1977 are now...

Well at least you won't be able to say I didn't warn you. And to answer another question from earlier, I just listened to the 2.0 track and the 5.1 track, once again on a properly calibrated home theater. The music is inaudible at this point in the film. Yet when I played the original Dolby...

Did you ever listen to the clip of Tarkin dialogue that I posted earlier? Neil

Not at all. Had this been a competent re-mix or a transfer of the 1997 mix this would have been fine and I wouldn't haven't bothered with it at all. The fact that they obviously went back to the original mixing stems on this should have been a great thing. Unfortunately, it's so rushed and...

So the fact that this music cannot be heard during the sequence in a properly calibrated home theater and you have to put your ear/microphone next to a surround channel to hear the remnants of it is acceptable? This is a poor mix. This sort of thing is totally incompetent. It's funny to see...

It's low at times. Gone at others. The big dive towards the Death Star formerly had music. It does not now. Neil

I won't stop saying it. I've heard it at THX reference level through a THX Ultra receiver. I've played it through headphones. I've already played it on multiple systems. I've scrutinized over it. It's not there. The cue before it, "Standing By" was recorded separately and it just ends there. You...