So the Region A / US "Bond 50" Blu-ray set contains "original mixes" on the older movies as Dolby Digital tracks.

Now I know there are few which are actually fold-downs of 5.1 remixes. Moonraker comes to mind.

Can anyone confirm exactly which of the earlier movies contain true original mono/stereo mixes?

Title: Schindler's List (1993)
Format/Catalog#: MCA/Universal Home Video [41927] https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/05879/419...dlers-List
Synced to: UHD 
Input Soundtrack: Stereo (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced by: alinskey
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli





Better bass. 

hi y'all!  I just joined the board after doing some searching inspired by a thread from "another board" about True Lies, the fantastic Arnie action movie from 1994.  I've always had a bit of an interest in fan edits and restorations for some of my favorite flicks, such as Dune, but the community here really takes it to a different level!  Hats off to all of you for your incredible work and contributions to entertainment!  

I hope that I'll be able to contribute back someday, but for now I'll just try not to make a goof of myself with silly questions and comments!  

Take care everyone!   

Hey everyone,

I've been having the roughest time with capturing DTS from WAVs. Although I've downloaded a Hex Editor to fix the DTS headers, I still have no idea what I'm doing.

If someone wants to fiddle around with these files, I would appreciate it:

The DTS LDs:

Casino
Daylight
Frighteners
Jackie Brown
Long Kiss Goodnight
Mortal Kombat
Schlinder's List

If you'd like to sync them, that'd be great. If you'd just like to send me back the "fixed" DTS file, that is all I would need. Feel free to PM me if you feel up to this mini-challenge.

The Great Dictator (1940) DVD [Image Entertainment] synced to Criterion Bluray

Better sound. 
More noise. More details, bass...


More info:
https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/search/lab...%281931%29

Just discovered today that eac3to wrongly assign channels when converting DTS-HD MA 7.1 to another format - I tried WAV and FLAC; used eac3to 3.31.0.0 and 3.34.0.0 with UsEac3To and AudioMixer GUIs, so I guess the problem is not in the GUI itself.

What it basically does is to swap side and rear surround channels;
so the original DTS-HD MA 7.1
L R C LFE Lss Rss Lsr Rsr
after convertion became
L R C LFE Lsr Rsr Lss Rss

If someone could confirm or deny this, it would be useful!

I learnt that a mild color regrading project - I mean, that the only thing done is not a huge color regrade - is useless.

Why? Well, our brain is amazing, and operate also as a good white balance device; sure, it's not instantaneous, it takes some time (I guess few minutes), but at the end ANY movie, even the ones with a strong color blanket would end as perfectly color balanced (for our brain).

Proof? Just take any movie that you know has altered colors - possibly with clear blue sky, white clouds, and snow in daylight - and watch it from the beginning to the end. Then, after it is finished, think about those shots with white clouds or snow, and get back to watch them again... you will be amazed to discover that the white is everything but white! (hint: Titanic) - note: even the most expert project maker with a perfect color vision and calibrated display works in the same way as the average Joe!

So, what's the point to mildly correct an almost right movie, whenever even the worse grading is "automatically corrected"? Sure, for the peace of mind and/or to make the things right, but if it's the only thing you are going to do, better to spare your time and do something else - I know that often is just a matter of tweaking some settings and let the PC do the rest, but it could takes hours, then you have to encode, upload etc... to me, it's just futile. Exception is when you do something else to video - like AR, cleaning, adding scenes etc. - or you tweak not lightly the contrast.

Just my looong two cents!

Project Info:

This project attempts to create the complete version of The Shining (including the original blue end credits) in the open matte format by combining a 1080p International Cut and the extended US 1999 DVD.

I don't like too much the way the UHD looks and for this movie I prefer the 1.37:1 AR. The color scheme will be the same as the older DVD. The additional scenes from the 1999 open matte DVD will be upscaled, processed with filters and then re-grained to match the 1080p version. In my humble opinion, the 1999 DVD looks more cinematic than the 1080p.
On the audio side I'll keep the 5.1 mix and I'll add the original mono soundtrack from the 1999 DVD approved by Stanley Kubrick (dolby digital). But what I really want is to add the audio from the Laserdisc (lpcm).

What I have:

The Shining 1990 International Cut (DVD, 2001) PAL with 5.1 mix
The Shining 1980 International Cut Open Matte 1080p 5.1
The Shining 1980 Blu-ray
Original mono audio (ac-3).

Anyone who could help with the 1999 DVD R1 for color correction, additional scenes and original WB logo will be welcome. I'm specially interested in the Laserdisc for the LPCM mono audio (if you have it and you can capture the video as well, this would help syncing).

In the early 80s there were some excellent synth-based scores that replaced the original scores.
Shogun Assassin comes to mind.

The US version of The Beyond, 7 Doors of Death also featured an alternate score with more synths than the original score.

Would be great to hear of other synth-based scores that replaced more traditional original scores with regards to grindhouse type releases in the 80s.

Why this movie hasn't been released on Blu-ray is beyond me. It's pretty good and has a great cast.
So did this movie appear in HD in it's OAR of 2.35:1 anywhere or are we stuck with cropped version, like the one from Amazon?