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Post #576935

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borisanddoris
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Preserving DTS LaserDisc tracks, specifically Jurassic Park
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Date created
8-May-2012, 10:19 AM

Yep, APT-X100.  I don't even remember how I discovered it way back when, but I did.  I'm just glad that an old CD backup I did of my old PC had the files on it when I got curious again about Jurassic Park.  

Jurassic Park was indeed the first film to be released in DTS.  Little known fact: this film along with several others in the early days had a 6-track and a stereo DTS release.  The idea was that many cinemas were not fully equipped yet for 5.1, so they could install the DTS-6 processor, but in a stereo only configuration.  Therefore, the stereo DTS discs contained a 2 channel track in digital sound, albeit compressed, and the cinema processor could decode it like pro-logic.  From what I hear, the 2 channel tracks might not be able to be ripped, but they are compressed tracks anyhow.  

The aforementioned DTS trailer that was attached to Jurassic Park, and some other early DTS films, was also notoriously played in non-DTS houses because many cinemas just left it on the head of the film.  It'd be cool if we could edit the existing home video version to match the audio from the JP DTS discs.  Basically, after the disc flies out and the words "The Digital Experience" explode, the trailer ends.  It's pretty cool!