hairy_hen said:
To get the six-track mix onto home video without any alteration at all, there would have to be a home video format that supported having five channels across the front.
Oh, 2001:ASO-fanatics won’t mind picking up speakers and moving them to the appropriate locations …
The left-center and right-center fronts most likely only contain a mix of the LCR channels anyway, … to fill in the space in a gigantic cinema environment. … beginning with Star Wars, they were reassigned to the purpose of being dedicated low frequency channels instead.
“most likely” – is this a definite known for 2001:ASO? (I’ve never read anything definitive on the sound; video takes up most of my time.)
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skoal said:
… the 1998 MGM/1999 Warner DVDs are the best for both audio and video.
By themselves, mostly. Together, definitely. MGM has severe sharpening halos. WB has bad coloring. But together (using the better color of the MGM with Hue and Saturation, and the better quality of the WB Luminance), they are greater than their parts [here zoomed-in for inspection]:
And here is the result full-sized (note that it should be trimmed to the smaller picture, as it’s empty space doesn’t add require information to the bigger one):
