"Road to Perditon" Reviews (1 Viewer)

[Jussi Tarvainen]

Why do you guys care so much about the HBO making of? I personally find them mainly infuriating, because most of the time they amount to nothing more than the cast & crew patting each other on the back. If I was buying this DVD I'd definitely go for the one with DTS.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I saw the HBO making of featurette and it's not good enough to prevent me from buying the DTS version.

 

[Brandon Conway]

Well, I honestly am not one who can tell much difference between DD and DTS, so I'd rather get as many extras as possible as long as there's DD 5.1.

As for the HBO doc - I usually like them, even if they are fluff. They can be really good, such as "Into the Breach" (Saving Private Ryan).

And besides - even a subpar HBO doc relaying how great RtP is would help me forget that it was jacked over for Best Picture by the Academy.

 

[Sam Davatchi]

Sam, was your DVD a R1 DVD?

Yes. I don’t think that the R2 is coming anytime soon.

 

[Sam Davatchi]

Here are two screen grabs I made:

 

[Brandon Conway]

 

[Robert Crawford]

So on the DTS version, you get both, 5.1 DD and DTS instead of the HBO "Making Of" featurette. I'm cool with that!





Crawdaddy

 

[Bill J]

No theatrical trailer?

 

[greg_t]

Sam,

If your dvd player has a bitrate analyzer, could you check the bitrate on the DTS soundtrack? According to a post on the AVS forum, the DTS is indeed full bitrate. This was confirmed on a french dts site. Link is below but the site is in french, I believe. Sam, if you have the capability, could you check to confirm this? Thanks.

http://www.dts-phile.com/main.php.

 

[Adam_WM]

2 Questions:
1) How long is the RtP HBO Doc?

and

2) Has anyone compared the two sound mixes?

 

[Shane Martin]

When does this disc arrive?
I want to purchase the DTS version. HBO documentaries are fluff at best to me.

 

[Sam Davatchi]

No theatrical trailer?

No!

 

[Sam Davatchi]

If your dvd player has a bitrate analyzer, could you check the bitrate on the DTS soundtrack? According to a post on the AVS forum, the DTS is indeed full bitrate.

No I don’t have a DVD Player capable of that. I have something better, a computer! Having made my own personal Backup DVDs thanks to Lucas I know a little bit by experience how to calculate bitrates! I looked at 6 min 20 secs of the movie. The DTS track for that part is 34.1 MB and if you do the math it gives a bitrate of around 750 kbps. So no it’s not a full bitrate because if I remember correctly, a full bitrate of DTS is more than 1000 kbps. That site is wrong.

 

[Sam Davatchi]

Also I finally saw the movie tonight for the first time. It’s powerful and Tom Hanks and Jude Law both are great. I never ever imagined in my life that Jude Law could play a role where he is awful-looking. He somehow is always good-looking in his movies but in this I thought he looked a lot different. I also have to add that I felt badly the missing documentary at the end of the movie! I wanted to see somthing about this movie. I don’t care for DTS. I prefer the documentaries and I will try not to make this mistake again.

 

[CraigL]

I've seen this at two stores over the weekend here in NYC. I'm just shocked that there are separate 5.1/DTS versions when the DTS version has both. I don't know if that's ever happened before.

 

[Sam Davatchi]

I'm just shocked that there are separate 5.1/DTS versions when the DTS version has both.

Why? I remember The Jurassic Park DTS which also had less extras.

 

[Matthew Chmiel]

Why? I remember The Jurassic Park DTS which also had less extras.

The Jurassic Park and Lost World DTS DVDs only had DTS 5.1 (half-bitrate IIRC) and Dolby Surround.

The Dolby Digital 5.1 DVDs had all the extras remaining along with a French Dolby Surround track instead of DTS or English Dolby Surround.

I think the Road to Perdiiton DVD should've been a two-disc set. Widescreen with DD 5.1/DTS 5.1 on disc one, extras on disc two.

 

[Adam_WM]

Can anyone with the disc tell me how long the HBO doc is?

 

[Julian Lalor]

I don’t think that the R2 is coming anytime soon.

the R2 and R4 versions are due early March. They only include the DD 5.1 track, but do have the HBO documentary, for what that's worth (not much, I'd say, going on the previous HBO featurettes I've seen).

 

[Jay W]

You've got to be kidding me right? DD 5.1 and DTS full bitrate tracks on the same disc?

I have to think someone at Dreamworks slipped up on this - no way I am touching this until I read some reviews as to the video quality on the DTS version. I really hope it's up to par, otherwise I'm taking the DD version. Perdition had a lot of scenes that would typically be difficult to compress on top of this, and I would be very dissapointed if they dropped the ball on the video.

PS: I just noticed the French 5.1 track on that menu too, ugh.