Stamper said:
I found online someone ripped the John Carpenter and Kurt Russell commentary from the laserdisc of EFNY, and synced it to the current Blu-ray US release (search on PB)
I was wondering if anyone had plans to rip the laserdisc soundtrack mix and sync it too.
The new mixes for the movie have several little problems, not found on the laserdisc. Also the new mix add music to the "what's wrong with Broadway?" scene, that was never at any time in this movie there (you can even hear it's a new addition, as the music track playing there is badly looped), so a LD soundtrack restore would be awesome.
See here
What I found said this .....
"Ripped to WAV from the Esacpe From New York Special Edition DVD and synced to the Blu-ray release. Then Converted to 192k AAC. I think MGM was to cheap to pay Carpenter and Russell royalties so it was left off the Blu-ray release. After matching the waveform of the soundtrack up to the commentary it just needed 2 seconds of silence inserted to the beginning of the track. So it was pretty easy :-) This is a fantastic and educational commentary track that shouldn't be lost to time!"