The Shade said:

captainsolo said:

I think these are original mixes, done off of master tapes. I guess just recorded straight to the video master at 16/44.1 PCM. You hear things you wouldn't even theatrically. Like all of the background sound design.

Can you elaborate on that a little? My brain has a bit of difficulty grasping that my home setup could pick up sounds that would not have been heard in a theater.

It's very simple really. These discs were created by transferring the original magnetic tracks with the master audio untouched. Usually for film prints the mix would be tweaked, EQ'd and fit onto the format. Then each individual theater had their own standards or lack of standards for proper audio presentation. It's still this way today, in fact IMO even more so. Despite having lossless audio, I can't find a theater with decent sound anymore. There's more quality at an art house with a horribly battered print of For a Few Dollars More that had the mono track going nuts with uncontrollable volume spikes!

I'll have to dig up a VCR and look at all my tapes for the titles. IIRC for most of the series waves from the '93 set on they were all letterboxed.