george kaplan
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That's not really true. Most properly ISF-calibrated hdtv sets will still have enough overscan so that you won't see black bars on 1.66:1 material.
The fact that the ending 12-string ringing notes of the title song were COMPLETELY CHOPPED OFF!!!...exactly as it was intended in the original theatrical mix before it was subverted by the 1982 and subsequent versions using the stereo album mixes of the song and not truncating it like in the film.
Other than presenting the mono music tracks in fake 5.1 stereo, this mix did most everything right. The laserdisc and MPI DVD releases dropped in the stereo mixes (some of which had different vocal arrangements as far as single/double tracked parts) and not only deleted some foley effects, but changed the way the mix was edited as well. A lot of us have only heard it wrong and are presuming that the new one is wrong because it is different. Same goes for the 1.66:1 framing.
The opening and closing scenes have a lot of problems on both the MPI and Miramax versions because:
a) The first and last reel of the negative had "gone missing" and an IP had to be used for the 1996 restoration
and, more significantly,
b) They are a few generations down due to the opticals necessary for the titles. Rather than try to recreate the titles, they used the best source they had for the original titles which was not as good as the rest of the film.
Regards,
To call this a restoration is a bit of a mislabel.Well, the film was restored in 1996 by Paul Rutan Jr. and the original mono track was preserved from the best available elements. They used the restoration as the basis for this release, but then "enhanced" (i.e. screwed up) the audio during the Beatles musical performance sequences.
Regards,
1) The Running, Jumping, And Standing Still Film, present on the MPI disc, is gone.Can anyone tell me what versions of the film this is available on
LDs or DVD...I think I will buy back my 1st version of HDN soon...should buy it for alot less than the $90 I sold it for
- I'm really starting to get cheesed of with the Canadian home video industry, where multi-language cover artwork is concerned. Paramount is bad enough, now Alliance.You wanna be cheesed off even further? Compare the packaging of the Alliance version with the screenshots Ron included with his review. The pictures on the Alliance package are washed out, grainy, enlarged and badly cropped.
Those scenes were shot 25 fps to synch up with the frame rate of the video monitors.That was my suspicion, but I thought that 25 fps was a European film speed, not a video speed. I thought that was the distinction between 30 fps drop-frame and non-drop-frame, but that wouldn't be enough to radically alter the music pitch.
The one thing about the audio that puzzled me was that there was NOTHING out of the center channel during most of the songs. The music remixes sounded more stereo than they did in the theater, but they seem louder at home than they did in the theater as well.The recipe for the fake stereoization of the music tracks seems to have gone something like this: Start with mono track. Decorrelate and send to left and right channels. Send faint reverbed version of same to rear channels. Leave center channel blank. Pump up bass severely via LFE.
If you listent to a pro-logic down-mix, the surround levels go up significantly (due to the out of phase info in the fronts bleeding to the surrounds), some of the signal goes to the center, and the bass actually sounds reasonably musical again due to the absence of LFE.
Regards,