The Audio Preservation Thread — Page 12

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

What about to start a brand new thread, "The Laserdisc Audio Preservation Thread"?

 That would most likely be redundant. Although I intended this thread to be from all sources, VHS, CED, DVD, etc. I knew that the bread 'n butter would be laserdisc. That's where most of the interesting soundtracks (Dolby Stereo/Surround, Mono, etc) would come from. Of the 43 tracks that are synced:

1 is from a Blu-ray

1 is from a mix of sources (but mostly from a LD)

2 are from Cinema DTS CD-ROMs 

and the the remaining 39 are from laserdiscs. So of all the preservations, 90% are LDs. There is a laserdisc preservation thread, this is it. :)

lightsabre said:

as a heads up, the Twin Peaks blu-rays come with lossless 7.1 tracks. I guess these upmixes wont sound too good and the 2.0 track on those discs is AC3 with 192 kbit/s. so maybe someone feels like adding their LD tracks :)

(that is if someone at all has all those LDs, they were really expensive from what Ive heard).

 Are the 2.0 tracks on the new BD set actually the original mixes?

I dont know.

NeonBible said:

lightsabre said:

as a heads up, the Twin Peaks blu-rays come with lossless 7.1 tracks. I guess these upmixes wont sound too good and the 2.0 track on those discs is AC3 with 192 kbit/s. so maybe someone feels like adding their LD tracks :)

(that is if someone at all has all those LDs, they were really expensive from what Ive heard).

 Are the 2.0 tracks on the new BD set actually the original mixes?

 They should be.  I doubt they would take the time to remix the 2.0 track for lossy DD.  These surround remixes on blu-ray are a complete joke.  Almost everything is getting one now.  Original mixes in lossless are so rare now for anything prior to 1993.  I was thrilled when I received The 'Burbs last month & it had the original 2.0 mix. Its almost like a luxury now & usually reserved for more obscure titles.

Does anyone have the original Cantonese mono mix of Armour of God in good quality? Not sure if it was ever released on Laserdisc.

IcePrick said:

Does anyone have the original Cantonese mono mix of Armour of God in good quality? Not sure if it was ever released on Laserdisc.

 Sadly, I don't have the LD. I do have the Deltmac DVD that has the original mono but Dolby Digital form. Don't know if that helps you, IcePrick.

If it sounds better than the mono on the Joy Sales disc, then sure, I'll take it. :D I'd also like the Mandarin audio. I've finished an encode of the movie using the HD Echo Bridge transfer, inserting the missing scenes from the upscaled Fortune Star transfer. I just need to add the audio and subtitles.

IcePrick said:

If it sounds better than the mono on the Joy Sales disc, then sure, I'll take it. :D I'd also like the Mandarin audio. I've finished an encode of the movie using the HD Echo Bridge transfer, inserting the missing scenes from the upscaled Fortune Star transfer. I just need to add the audio and subtitles.

 I'll PM you when I'm done uploading and send you the whole thing which has both Canto and Mandarin mono. The monos are definitely original since they have that 80's HK zero fidelity sound. The subs are terrible.

I have the Mega-Star (can't find it right now), Delta-Mac, Fortune Star (same as Joy Sales) and the Echo-Bridge HD. The Mega Star and Fortune Star's monos are both mix downs. To my knowledge only the LD (PCM) and Delta Mac have the original mono (DD). 

The other great thing about the Delta Macs is they have the original color timing. When Fortunes Star remastered the Golden Harvest movies they removed all the blue and yellow filters (a hallmark of 80s HK film making). This still has the blue filters.

IcePrick are you still looking for the Police Story monos also? I have those also just not from LD.

Thanks! :D Those Police Story monos would be nice. What are the sources? I have the Deltamac DVDs for Police Story 2 and 3, but not Police Story 1. I have the Dragon Dynasty releases also.

IcePrick said:

Thanks! :D Those Police Story monos would be nice. What are the sources? I have the Deltamac DVDs for Police Story 2 and 3, but not Police Story 1. I have the Dragon Dynasty releases also.

I have the same thing the Delta Macs but you already have them. I think the dd release are true mono and not a downmix so it sounds like you have all the sources I have.

Anyone have the Dolby Stereo/Surround PCM from the Aliens extended edition laserdisc? I have the theatrical cut captured but want to preserve the extended edition also.

digitalfreaknyc said:

zeropc said:

anyone has jaws 2?

the bd is in the talks for quite some time. but will it contain the original mono? who knows. besides, there are some hd releases we could use it on :)

so a unsynced ld audio of this movie would be sweet :D

and for the sake of... jaws 3 and 4 too ;)

This would be awesome! Are there HD "releases" of 2/3/revenge?

The only 1080i/p ones I know of are from Vudu.

jaws 2: i have it 1080p oar. also available on itunes in hd

jaws 3: a 1080i oar version exist. it's a cap from around 2007. i don't have it. also available on itunes in hd

jaws 4: available on itunes in hd

Itunes HD is LQ. You need a Vudu cap. Much better.

PDB said:

Anyone have the Dolby Stereo/Surround PCM from the Aliens extended edition laserdisc? I have the theatrical cut captured but want to preserve the extended edition also.

 Yeah, I have the unsynched PCM from the Japanese CLV LD on my home PC, but I'm on vacation now. Will send it after I get back.

Does anyone have the Laserdiscs for Tokyo Fist and Bullet Ballet? I'd be interested to know what kind of sound mix is on them. The recent Blu-ray releases have mono sound, but most (all?) of the previous DVD releases have stereo sound.

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 :)

Buster D said:

PDB said:

Anyone have the Dolby Stereo/Surround PCM from the Aliens extended edition laserdisc? I have the theatrical cut captured but want to preserve the extended edition also.

 Yeah, I have the unsynched PCM from the Japanese CLV LD on my home PC, but I'm on vacation now. Will send it after I get back.

 Thanks Buster D. I really appreciate it.

Finally finished:

Movie: James Bond 11 Moonraker

Format: Laserdisc  ML101710

Input Soundtrack: PCM 2.0 Dolby Stereo Surround 44.1 khz, 16-bit, bit perfect

Output Soundtrack: PCM 2.0 Dolby Stereo Surround 48 khz, 16-bit

Synced To: 2009 Blu-ray Release Region A

Ripped/Synced by: Jonno

Notes: Contains the original Dolby Stereo soundtrack

Jonno said:

Finally finished:

Movie: James Bond 11 Moonraker

Format: Laserdisc  ML101710

Input Soundtrack: PCM 2.0 Dolby Stereo Surround 44.1 khz, 16-bit, bit perfect

Output Soundtrack: PCM 2.0 Dolby Stereo Surround 48 khz, 16-bit

Synced To: 2009 Blu-ray Release Region A

Ripped/Synced by: Jonno

Notes: Contains the original Dolby Stereo soundtrack

 Thanks Jonno. Added to the list

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.

Does any one have the isolated track from The Fifth Element Japan DVD?

Thanks.

Here's another for the list:

Movie: The Fly (1986)

Format: Laserdisc  1503-80

Input Soundtrack: PCM 2.0 Dolby Stereo Surround 44.1 khz, 16-bit, bit perfect

Output Soundtrack: PCM 2.0 Dolby Stereo Surround 44.1 khz, 16-bit
PCM 2.0 Dolby Stereo Surround 48 khz, 16-bit (BD-friendly upsample)

Synced To: 2007 Blu-ray Release Region A

Ripped/Synced by: Buster D/Jonno

Notes: Contains the original Dolby Stereo soundtrack

Big thanks to Buster D for the original rip. I've done this one in the 'modern style', i.e. edited at native 44.1KHz and upsampled to 48 for the Blu-ray version. Both available on request.