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#654567
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The Terminator (1984) - Original Theatrical Mono Preservation (Released)
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supersonic395 said:

Just to be clear, this track syncs with the UK Blu-ray without needing to add the delay or change the file format right?

correct, no delay if you have the u.k. blu-ray. when you mux to mkv then you don't need to change flac to wav. however, if you remux to blu-ray using tsmuxer, then you need to change the audio to wav with 48khz.

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#654297
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Conan The Barbarian 1982 US Theatrical Edition & BONUS! *RELEASED*
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to clarify...

on various blu-ray forums it was rumored that only the hong-kong blu-ray had the chorus, which was missing from the u.s. and european blu-ray, fully intact. the problem was, that no one with the disc actually confirmed or denied it. that's why i asked you, since you seam to have this disc. so in terms of proper would mean the chorus is intact.

as for the censoring of the horse falls on the u.k. bd. you can avoid this by chaning the language of your player to anything but english. this will play the movie in it's uncut state.

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#654172
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Info: Re-mixed audio tracks on video releases
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skyjedi2005 said:

So not only can i not find the mono mix for dirty harry on the blu ray, Now i find Bullitt is also missing its original mono mix.  Is this a kind of trend?

 

 

the average joe doesn't give a damn about original mixes. studios oblige and release 5.1/7.1 upmixes. luckily some studios see that it's time to revert that whole bs and include the original mixes. fox has shown a turn around for that matter. they even include lossless mono mixes on newer releases, e.g. brubaker. hopefully more studios will follow. especially universal and warner need to change their way of treating movie mixes.

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#654162
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Help Wanted: 'Nemesis' - Japanese Extended Version; anyone do a transfer of my LD?
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if it's japanese laserdisc, then the video is ntsc and not pal. so anyone with a good player and the right capture tools can do it.

wasn't there talk about a blu-ray release with this version? i might be mistaken. if i was, then a proper preservation of a your ld would be sweet - clean sd video with lossless audio :)

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#654161
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The Terminator (1984) - Original Theatrical Mono Preservation (Released)
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mgm/sony has released james cameron’s sci-fi classic with a brand new transfer, which looks fantastic. one could argue that the inclusion of a more modern day tint, subtle but still noticeable, is a bad thing. personally i have no real problem with it.
the real problem is the omission of the original theatrical mono mix. fans have asked mgm for the inclusion since the first blu-ray release and yet again mgm ignored the fans call. but what about the 5.1 remix supervised/mixed by academy award winner gary rydstrom? is it really that bad? the answer is no. it’s a good remix, with a modern touch and a tie in with sfx of terminator 2, e.g. phaser sounds of the hunter killers. but some changes are pretty big compared to the original mix (especially the gunshot sfx change in the sarah conner killing scene) and that’s what a lot fans got on the fence. i recommend to see the new 5.1 mix as an alternate mix. nothing more, nothing less.

back to topic…

luckily the original mono mix was previously released on laserdisc and on dvd. so the preservation was rather easy. with the help of a friend, shoutouts to jj666 for his awesome syncing job, anyone with the new 2012 blu-ray release can now enjoy the lossless original theatrical mono mix.

source: the terminator thx laserdisc - pcm captured via toslink by myself
synced by jj666 to the u.k. blu-ray
release format: flac, 16bit mono at 44.1khz
download: -

_the laserdisc had different studio logos then the new u.k. blu-ray. did you change this?
yes. i have added the mgm lion logo and orion picture sounds to the mono mix, so that the audio and video match.
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can this be synced to the u.s. blu-ray?
my audio track needs a delay of +8950ms to make it sync with the u.s. blu-ray. this delay value was confirmed by NeonBible.

why do you use flac instead of wav?
flac is a lossless codec and saves spaces. it’s practically identical to wave. you can easily transcode it to wav, if you need to. you wont loose any quality, hence lossless.

please note: if you share this on another place, then don’t forget to give credit to the people making this release possible.

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#653574
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The Thing (1982) - sound mixes (Released)
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dark_jedi said:

zeropc said:

dj, the bd audio doesn't match the hd-dvd video. you need to edit it in order make it sync. i have the dts-hd audio already synced here.

I used the UK BD because of all those kick ass extras and the 2 video's lined up perfectly, I was totally shocked I did not have to synch anything, so maybe you have to with the US BD but the UK was perfect for me.

a little update on the matter...

i extracted the dts-hd audio to mono waves from the german blu-ray (same as the uk one) and compared them to the hd-dvd audio waveforms. the audio definitely goes out of sync. so it doesn't matter if one has the audio from us or european blu-ray, they both are affected in the same way.