how was the dts playback, laserbite34?

Watching Babel (2006) [122224]. What the hell am I watching?

Axle Foley: "You know Victor, I know that you're into a lot of crooked sh!t. And I have a pretty good idea that you had Mikey killed. And when I find out for sure, I'm going to f&ck you up real bad".

"Beverly Hills Cop" (1984) 6-track Dolby Stereo Digital Lucasfilm Ltd THX Sound System / JBL Just Beverly Lovely Loud

The picture transfer looks as fresh as when I saw it at the cinema in 1984

The Dolby mix is nicely mixed and engineered with lively LCR. Foley effects from body movement when Axle Foley defends himself from Zack at restaurant with most body and items falling on the floor in centre while the rest of the items clang on the stage left and right seemed like it actually happened in the home THX cinema.

Gunshots and machine-gun firing towards the end appeared lively with SUDDEN ALARMING WHAM of on stage left that soon swooped panned across the rest of stage centre and stage right within a few seconds.

LFE.1 is hardly used in the mix

The surrounds mostly carried some atmosphere effect, but mostly a different part of the music mix as the action was up on screen or maybe that's what the directer Martin Brest wanted?

this wasn't listed on the in70mm.com list of movies shown with dolby stereo. no blowup existed.

You, and the In70mm database, are wrong - Top Gun was indeed released in 70mm. It was a Super35 film and the 70mm prints were struck with a 2:1 aspect ratio. It was released in 70mm on May 16, 1986 and over one hundred 70mm prints were made. It was also a Format 43 release, which means Stereo Surrounds. Dolby A-Type Noise Reduction was used on the 70mm prints because Dolby SR (Format 46) was still in its early stages of testing. The trailers attached to the 70mm print of Top Gun were; The Golden Child teaser, Ruthless People and Deadly Friend.

But....he's talking about Beverly Hills Cop?

My total bad - UGH! I have no idea why I replaced BHC with Top Gun - I went looking for BHC and somehow 'switched' to Top Gun. How embarrassing! Well, I won't delete the post because I did write it and so I won't hide my huge blunder.

Sorry Elieb, I was totally mistaken and I apologize.

it's okay. i know top gun was in 70mm. but beverly hills cop 2 WAS in 70mm

Watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers, one of my all time favorite movies!

Which version, original or '78 remake? And if original, is it the Criterion version? That one is a great LaserDisc, in content, transfer and 3M pressing. Back when 3M meant pristine discs pressed with no defects - then things kinds fell apart for them starting in 1986/87.

The original of course. Its the criterion collection with the green cover. I was lucky enough to see a screening of it here where they had Kevin McCarthy doing a Q&A after the showing. It was a few years right before he died.

I have the original Criterion CAV with the silver cover. How cool to see a screening with McCarthy doing Q & A! You are VERY lucky!

Since the film was shot 4x3 and NEVER meant to be cropped to widescreen, I wish someone would release a true original aspect ratio disc of the film.

so was it shot twice like seven brides for seven brothers?
i see that there was a superscope or something of invasion of the body snatchers.

No, it was filmed 4x3 and cropped to 2:1 to make it SuperScope, which was the forerunner to Super35, but Invasion was NEVER meant to be cropped or shown wide. The 4x3 video versions are pan and scan transfers of the SuperScope crop which was already a major crop of the original - so see the problem? Less than 30% of the image winds up on screen with P/S transfers. The director never ever meant it to be seen wide, RKO did it after the fact because widescreen was booming and they wanted their own product in theaters but had none being filmed. So they cropped existing films that were just wrapping production.

As a side note, SuperScope has a 2:1 aspect ratio and SuperScope 235 had a 2.35:1 ratio. later, by eliminating the area reserved for the soundtrack on the negative, the total film frame was made larger by about 20% and Super35 was created.

So what did the bluray end up as? Beaver has some shots.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview ... tchers.htm

"Olive Films released a Blu-ray version of the film in 2012 in the Superscope Aspect Ratio."


Also time for this:

Love Leviathan! seen it so many times! got the Korean DVD with 5.1 audio. was looking forward to getting the German Blu-ray but turns out it was nothing but a bad DVD upscaled

This scene with Ernie Hudsons line "Gone!? b**ch we're still here!" always catches me off guard and cracks me up.
http://youtu.be/BiLtPTQPr3Q

Yeah the Blu-Ray was horrible. Apparently the scan used for the Blu-Ray was an old foreign bootleg transfer full of compression, artfacting, macroblocking etc, etc.. They basically took that crappy scan, pumped up the brightness levels, applied a s**t load of DNR and slapped it onto to the Blu-Ray. The saturation takes on a strange pink tint too which was never apart of the orignal coulour timing.

The DVD by MGM is better in every single way. Hell the Blu-Ray is so awful maybe even the Laserdisc looks better as well..

Look at these screenshots - http://www.caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/comparison.php?art=full&cap1=17481&cap2=17489&cID=1440&lossless=&image=5

I've watched the region 1 DVD at least 150 times or so since I bought it a few years ago.

I saw this at the cinema in Dolby SR when it opened, but didn't get to UK until 1990.

No "Leviathan" NTSC laserdisc on eBay at present. Looks like I should have bought that USA NTSC one last year. Well plenty more Leviathan laserdisc in the ocean.