skyjedi2005 said:
SkySnake said:
Does anyone have this Japanese Laseridsc of My Neighbor the Totoro?
http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/161/
This is suppose to contain the best available version of the original streamline English dub. A dub that has been abandon ever since the Disney dub came out. Needless to say, I would love to sync this to the latest Blu Ray release :)
It is only in monaural and is on the second audio channel.
The best laserdisc source would be the much rarer US release which does not contain the Japanese soundtrack and is chopped to be in the 4:3 full frame format.
Honestly the best i have ever heard the track was on the Japanese region 2 dvd. Yeah its not lossless but this is a dual monaural track anyway. Not even sure if this was ever in true stereo.
I did not know there was US Laserdisc. Here it is on lddb,
http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/05818/4276-80/My-Neighbor-Totoro-%281988%29
As for being in mono, is that really an issue? As far as I know, there was never a true stereo release of this dub. All DVD's claiming to be in stereo are just dual monaural. This includes the official FOX DVD.
Something tells me this dub was never in real stereo so a lossless mono would be the best one could possibly get for this dub.