eBay has one at £29.00 and the seller can keep it at that price.

So its rough DVD up-scale.

I see the Korean DVD but I'm suspicious is this a true Dolby Stereo discrete 6 track mix? Well at the daft low price I'm tempted to take the Risk.

"Good evening. Name's Thompson. Party of one. My reservation was 8:15. Not too near to the orchestra, please".

Watching/listening to the number hit play of 150 or so times "Leviathan" (1989) DOLBY STEREO SR Lucasfilm Ltd THX Sound System.





The cover for the region 1 DVD looks like a copy of some kind? The image is crisp and colourful. Dolby stereo matrix sounds great just as it did when I heard in Dolby SR, well I can use Dolby SR on it if I wanted to.

The other region 1 DVD cover looks like this.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leviathan-DVD ... 43b93dd448

I have the artwork that is holograph that was stuck on the front cover and I peeled it off and put in the cupboard with a bunch of DVD bluray slip-cases as I can't stand slip-cases.



Taken the Risk "Estimated delivery: Between Thursday, Mar. 21 and Wednesday, Apr. 10"
I can hold my breath for that long.

wow, thanks, i never knew that before, and i see that DVD bever says it also.
it would be cool to see an uncut image, but i wonder if it will ever happen when they are too busy pumping out avengers 20
they don't have time or money to waste on this classic.

finished watching dr no, from the connery box set--digital tracks are MONO, but the analog tracks are stereo.

Watching Contact on Blu Ray. I have a pristine LD of the film as well, without any rot last time I checked. Great Dolby TrueHD track, and a decent visual transfer as well. My TV isn't good enough for me to be nitpicky

For some reason I prefer the SR-D soundtrack to this superb film on the LaserDisc - even though it has a lower bitrate than the DVD or, especially, the Blu-ray, the LaserDisc's AC-3 mix just seems to sound wider and more realistic. It's wonderful. My LaserDisc pressing is a DADC but doesn't have a single speckle on any side. Both th DVD and BD are perfect pressings too, although the DVD-9 pressing of Contact was rumored to be afflicted with "DVD Rot" in the early days of the format.

I once owned the CONTACT on NSTC AC-3 but sold it around late '99 or '2000 for the region 2 DVD. No Laser rot to report on the pressing I had I saw nothing expect a nice clear picture and I wish I didn't sale it as I would like to buy it again.

I also have the bluay. Dolby TrueHD is nice. The opening is LOUD! But soon goes softer down in the mix in few seconds but still loud as as its playing all the radio and television signals being sent out into space.

It soon all narrows down to centre channel only and soft sound of Morse Code can be heard with soft high frequency radio static., than silence...

If some don't like it at Dolby reference level, you can always use Night Mode or Compressor to lower the high loud levels down and it will also heighten the lower softer sounds for easy listening at the same fader volume level.

Playing some CONTACT now.





The level on the Sony SDDS centre channel is at around -34db and getting softer and softer in the mix just around 0:02:06.



By around the time on the screen capture above its just soft radio static that is very faint sounding.

0:0:3:52/53s a knock on the door stage left.











JBL Control 5 monitors being used in CONTACT (1997) hey that's my Control 5 I thought when I saw this at the cinema in the afternoon of 1998 as the film played a few weeks in Dolby SR-D at the ABC screen 1.





There is a bit of sound goof the frequency being picked up is low-frequency, so why is the EQ of the same make I have also to this day peaking at 1KHz?

During the end credits I can detect noise hiss level on the recoding mix which seems odd for a digital recoding but no matter, if I had some extra SRA5 processors I could use Dolby SR to suppress any noise while giving the mix an extra boast in low end and on the top end.

I might have to pop in the Laserdisc and listen to the AC-3 track sometime. I watched my Laserdisc in the days before I have a surround receiver as a staple of my setup. It's a good enough film that I would have no hesitations about viewing it again. I love Robert Zemeckis and I find this to be one of the few films of his I never really hear much about from my peers. They seem to have no trouble remembering Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or Castaway though.

In the last few weeks or so I have watched the following films.

In The Mouth of Madness - LD
Blown Away - LD
The Birdcage - LD
The Abyss - LD
Out for Justice - LD
U-571 - DVD

well, i'm about to see my 1st imax film. oz, the great and powerful

Unless you see it on 15/70mm film, I wouldn't count it as an Imax film. Imax digital is not quite up to speed with other digital theaters in terms of image quality. Also, please let me know what the aspect ratio is, as IMDB had like 4 different aspect ratios listed for the film.

Yeah so many LieMax cinemas around its hard to tell which TrueMax and which LieMax?

Yeah take some pictures of the day, what the cinema looks like from the outside and inside the cinema itself otherwise I might end up...? it starts with Y no not Y-wing from STAR WARS.

Watched The Shining now I'm watching Speed.

oz was great, very loud in imax.

Watching ZERO HOUR, new TV Series, first episode. Very intriguing.

Just watched the Criterion release of Robocop. Very impressed with the picture quality, thought it looked excellent.

Not seen it in a few years, think it had aged pretty well.

aspect ratio is: starts out as 4:3. changes 16:9 (could be 2:40.1) when he arrives in oz.

Commander Willard Decker: "No, Admiral. I don't think you're sorry. Not one damned bit. I remember when you recommended me for this command. You told me how envious you were and how much you hoped you'd find a way to get a starship command again. Well, sir, it looks like you found a way".
Captain James T. Kirk: "Report to the bridge commander. Immediately".
Commander Willard Decker: "Aye, sir".

Watching/listening to

STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE (1979) Dolby Stereo Lucasfilm Ltd THX Sound System





camera captures are okay its the quality recoding level I used for the Laserdisc to DVD-RW set at super-long-recoded to fit two films on the DVD-RW. I might do a LD to DVD-RW again of just STTMP.


















With an LED touch behind the Laserdisc shows transparency between the two sided bonded layers.

that movie had a 70mm mix.
and enjoyed t2.

i was watching willy wonka and the chocolate factory.

It's too bad Star Trek the Motion Picture is slower than molasses. I couldn't stand how poorly paced that film was. Maybe I'll pop in the Blu Ray tonight and see if it fares any better, I haven't watched in at least two years.