Bits now confirms - Warner drops lossless audio for Speed Racer BD (1 Viewer)

[Jesse Blacklow]

Well, that was the point of my post: that it doesn't make any sense except in the most ludicrous situations. "Every Which Way But Loose" getting TrueHD is odd, but the fact that a day-and-date title that pretty much depends on high-quality video and audio is getting the shaft is mind-boggling. Compound that with the lossy audio on several other upcoming titles, and something weird is going on.

Look, I could see if they're expecting "The Dark Knight" to take up every single BD50 they want to pay for. That explains the BD25. But not only is "Speed Racer" a 3-disc set(!) (why not just unload the extras to another BD? Or hell, even DVD, since Warner only does SD extras), but when Universal is fitting "Leatherheads" (less than 20m shorter) onto a BD25 with lossless audio and extras, then I have to call them out.

 

[Brandon Conway]

The reason for this title not getting lossless is clear in my book: Warner wants to forget it as soon as possible.

 

[RobertR]

As plausible as the other reasons being bandied about...

 

[Jeff Cooper]

Even if they had no business relations at all with Dolby or DTS, that still wouldn't prevent them from putting lossless PCM on there.

 

[PaulDA]

Doesn't make any more sense, even if this is true UNLESS lossless costs more--and I can't see how it would (though I'm open to be educated on this). Why piss off the people who are actually LIKELY to buy this?

 

[troy evans]

Given this movie didn't do that well Warner may want to spend as little as possible on it's release to Blu-ray. Then again, one wonders why a 3 disc release if that's the case? Hopefully, this is just an error like the BLOW and L.A. Confidential Blu-rays which are reported now to have DD TrueHD and are on BD50. One can only hope.

 

[Jesse Blacklow]

 

[troy evans]

I see you've already found the information.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Well, so much for my confusion about Warner's intentions regarding lossless audio tracks for which titles.

I hope Speed Racer is in error too that way we can close this thread.






Crawdaddy

 

[Dave Moritz]

I hope that it is an error as well because I hate to think that WB is actually going to release this title with lossy Dolby Digital.

 

[Ron-P]

This title is nothing more than eye and ear candy, it's got to have a lossless track.

 

[Michael Reuben]

And, according to Blu-ray.com it does:

Blu-ray.com - Speed Racer (Blu-ray)

Title edited accordingly.

M.

 

[Ron-P]

Yes, I posted that in the other Speed thread.

 

[Michael Reuben]

Sorry, Ron, I should have noted that.

Since Bill Hunt says his sources are "official", I guess we'll just have to wait until someone has an actual disc in their hot little hands.

M.

 

[Jay Gregory]

I'm still baffled why a DVD game would be (reportedly) exclusive to the Blu-ray package...

 

[Paul Arnette]

Time to change the thread title again, per thedigitalbits:

 

[Edwin-S]

Oh well, lots of other discs out there that are deserving of the money. It's Warners loss. Guess they want to lose money on this film in all of its incarnations.

 

[Ron-P]

I said it before and I'll say it again; No lossless = No sale.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

I remember a time when we as a whole changed the aspect ratio's on Cat's and Dog's and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory by sending a shitstorm of emails and calls Warner's way, we can do it again.

This blows, and I don't even have Dolby TrueHD capabilities yet (have the Sony BDP-S300) but it aggravates the living shit out of me when a format is touted as being able to do these amazing things and then they don't.

BD needs to be standardized with two things on all titles:

Lossless audio
Full 1080p video

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Insane.

If they can't release it with TrueHD, then they shouldn't release it on BD at all.

Save it for a few years until BD50 replication is ubiquitous and costs nothing. Then release it right.