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Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 4:20 pm
by tavernier
MichaelB wrote:It's definitely happening, and it's the same transfer as the BFI disc - but I don't know about extras.
I put them in touch with a BFI contact with regard to the five shorts on the BFI disc, and also recommended contacting Švankmajer's company Athanor on the off-chance that HD versions of the shorts that didn't exist in 2011 have since been created, but your guess is as good as mine as to what they'll end up including.
(I got the impression that their extras budget was pretty tight.)
First Run's new Blu-ray of Svankmajer's
Alice has no extras and only the English dub.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 4:39 pm
by MichaelB
...and the BFI Blu-ray is region-free.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:06 pm
by FrauBlucher
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 11:04 pm
by manicsounds
So a capable receiver, plus more speakers including overhead speaker installation, necessary...
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 12:50 pm
by Roger Ryan
I love that the Dolby representative is promising the full, high overhead surround sound will be available on mobile devices! The last time I checked, the iPhone couldn't quite replicate the full-range theatrical mono of THE JAZZ SINGER.
Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:34 am
by Zot!
What is a SD Blu Ray?
Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:17 am
by tenia
Zot! wrote:What is a SD Blu Ray?
It's a Blu Ray where the PQ is obviously limited because the source used is terrible / in SD. However, the sound is usually good and in lossless.
Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:25 pm
by rspaight
They're generally compressed less than DVDs, so there's some small PQ benefit, but yeah, the main draw is the sound.
Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:00 pm
by flyonthewall2983
People complain about in on Blu-ray.com but I'd much rather have a good-sounding but poor-looking concert film than the other way around.
Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:18 pm
by domino harvey
DVD can support PCM, can't it? I seem to recall Metric's concert film was released on DVD but came with a lossless audio option all the same
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:37 pm
by flyonthewall2983
I have DVD's from as far back as the late 90's with PCM soundtracks on it.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:44 pm
by jedgeco
Criterion's The Magic Flute DVD has a PCM soundtrack.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 4:36 pm
by cdnchris
As did Do the Right Thing.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 4:51 pm
by flyonthewall2983
And a lot, if not all were just stereo mixes. It wasn't until Blu-ray that PCM started producing surround sound I believe.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 10:30 pm
by tenia
Dvd perfectly supports PCM but there is a disc space issue : a PCM track (even if only 2.0) takes a lot of space and with only 7Gb, it can be tricky to accomodate.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:00 pm
by manicsounds
DVDs can have a PCM 2.0 track at max. No 5.1 PCM tracks on DVD.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:56 pm
by The Fanciful Norwegian
The DVD-Video spec allows up to six channels of PCM audio. Actually it allows
up to eight, but
supposedly that isn't well supported by players and authoring applications. It's all kind of moot since AFAIK no commercially-released DVD has ever used more than two channels for a PCM track, presumably because of the space issue mentioned by tenia—according to
this, a single six-channel PCM track would use more than 60% of available bitrate.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 9:53 pm
by tenia
Not only the bitrate but also the disc space. I would need to check to be sure but I think a 2hr 5.1 PCM track on DVD was taking about 2Gb.
As for the bitrate, I believe it was in 16 bits so it would be 4.6 Mbps, indeed about 50% of the AV bitrate.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 7:47 pm
by flyonthewall2983
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 7:52 pm
by tenia
If you're thinking of upgrading to Atmos, keep in mind that just over a couple dozen Blu-rays support the format so far
There's more than twice this figure (roughly 30 if you only count US titles) :
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Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 11:15 pm
by flyonthewall2983
The "upward firing sound beams" sounds pretty cool.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 9:22 am
by Adam X
In answering a question about why, for
Scream Factory's upcoming release of
The Thing, it only received a 2K scan, rather than 4K,
Cliff MacMillan wrote:Universal did the scan. If we had access to the element we would have done it in 4K, but we have no UHD 4K rights.
Am I reading this correctly and that this is now becoming a thing, where (some) studios won't allow access to elements for a 4K scan unless a label pays for the UHD rights on top of those for a BD/DVD release? Regardless of whether the label plans to release the film on UHD BD or not?
Any way to milk an extra dollar, I guess...
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:20 am
by tenia
I never understood this type of logic, and I still dont. Universal only did a 2K scan with their own money, so they paid for that. Because of that, if they want to do an UHD, they will lack basic technical sales support to justify the release.
Instead, they could have had Shout paying a better 4k scan, allowing either one of them to do an UHD release if they wanted to. If Shout wouldnt have to, it wouldnt have changed anything UHD wise compared to the current situation.
Stupid.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:12 am
by MichaelB
It was just as baffling when Fox refused point blank to let Arrow do a new 2K scan of 35mm elements of Russ Meyer's The Seven Minutes, even though Arrow would have footed the bill and Fox would end up with a high-quality digital master that they'd own outright, and which would only be licensed to one territory, leaving the rest of the world up for grabs.
Needless to say, this argument was made.
Re: Blu-ray, in General
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 12:44 am
by domino harvey
Patriot's Day has a separate audio track for "late night viewing"-- is this just the regular audio with loud parts turned down?