BountyHunter

I hope that's a typo!

The 97 SE also had a 5.1 track stored on one of the analog channels, which has a bit rate of 384 kbps (standard for most 5.1 dvd dolby tracks)

Originally posted by: GundarkHunter

Bitrate for the 2.0 tracks on the 2004 DVDs was 192kbps, which is pretty much the standard for 2.0 tracks. Some companies have used 384 kbps, but not many.

In answer to your second question, a 2.0 track, by nature of its design, is not going to sound as good as 6-track 70mm. It may come close to sounding like Dolby Stereo in a theatre (4 track surround matrixed into two tracks), but it will lack the "baby boom" elements of a 6-track 70mm track. For that, you would need a 4.1 DD track.

Keep in mind that Dolby Digital (AC-3) is a lossy compession system, so something of the original tracks will inevitably be lost. The only way to come close to the original theatrical sound experience is to use a lossless audio codec, like Dolby TrueHD, which uses MLP (Meridian Lossless Processing) for compression.

But it gets even more complicated than that, I just remembered! The special effects shots were filmed in a 1.88:1 ratio, so you're actually seeing the full image of special effects shots in the widescreen version while the fullscreen version crops them! So basically, in either version, you're losing some parts of the picture... which sucks.

Originally posted by: hairy_hen
It is a significant goof, because in particular the music underscoring Fett's line "put captain Solo in the cargo hold" is extremely choppy. Allowed to run as composed it is one of my favourite musical segments in the entire collected SW score, but the 35 mm mix botches it. I don't know why, because it doesn't even compress it for time for that part, just alters it in a bad way.

Originally posted by: zombie84
Oh yeah, now i remember, when i saw the SE when Slave I flies away the music continued all the way back to the Vader duel. Personally i felt the 35 version was way stronger with just silence. We see Leia's face looking at the ship in horror with the muted sounds of laser fire in the background underscoring her defeat. The inclusion of the music in this part was very cacophonous and doesn't mix well with artoos screams and all the blaster fire. To each his own i suppose.

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
In this case, Zemeckis has sometimes stated things to the extent that he intended the movie not to be wide, so it's debatable. There aren't any mistakes in the full frame.



Originally posted by: bad_karma24
You should watch films in whatever the director intends. In the case of BTTF, you should get the widescreen versions.

(2) 1977 70mm Six-Track Dolby Stereo (never available but re-created by the EditDroid team)

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
You see, the BTTF movies were shot in an open matte ratio. Rather than being filmed in a 1.88:1 ratio, they were filmed in Academy (and TV) standard 1.33:1 with the top and bottom cropped for theatrical release.