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Post #176295

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Neil S. Bulk
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*** The Official DigitalFreakNYC Release Thread*** (SW, Indy + Others!)
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Date created
2-Feb-2006, 11:52 AM
I was just checking out the Blade Runner disc. This looks much better than the DVD I bought in 1997. It's a smooth, glossy picture and the wires on the spinner in the beginnning were as clear as ever.

The sound is a mess though. I don't blame you Craig, but it sounds like the HDNet broadcast just did an on the fly re-purposing of a stereo track. There's dialogue leakage in the surrounds that you'd never hear in a true 5.1 mix. The opening titles also sound really weird, with a phasey effect going on in the surrounds. Also there is a ton of hiss on this. Once the movie starts it's tolerable, but I'm sure this movie can sound much better. Again, this isn't a knock against you, and I thank you for making this available.

I'm not sure if this is an authoring mistake, but my DVD burning program (Toast) says this is a 2.0 track. When I played it in my Pioneer DVD player, the on screen display said it was a 2.0 track as well. When I played it in my main home theater though, it was clearly coming from all 5 channels and my Zenith DVD player said it was 5.1. Weird.

For those that don't have dual layer burners, I discovered that the movie itself can fit on a single layer DVD without any further compression. You'll lose the menus and the trailers and the interviews, but the movie proper will still look gorgoeus.

Neil