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Post #899679

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schn4rk
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Hackers (1995) - DTS 5.1 Restoration (* unfinished project - lots of info *)
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Date created
21-Jan-2016, 5:29 PM

SilverWook said:

Congrats.

Odd that the Laserdisc didn’t have a Dolby track.

The US laserdisc seems to have had a Dolby Digital 5.1 track, though the JP laserdisc was stereo only. Without having access to the laserdisc 5.1 audio, I would guess it’s essentially the same as found on the later DVD (released in 1998).

DTS and Dolby Digital were relatively new and competing formats in the mid-90s, and they handled surround sound mixing differently. I can only imagine that the issues with the 5.1 mixes used in home releases were a result of having to remix the DTS soundtrack into Dolby format (assuming it wasn’t actually a ‘fake 5.1’ upmix from stereo).