2018-11-10, 01:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 2018-11-10, 01:08 PM by Chewtobacca.)
(2018-11-10, 10:29 AM)Booshman Wrote: I dunno man, feels like they're holding back for another dip down the line. They're eventually going to max out the resolution and sound quality they can release these movies in.
Oh, there will almost certainly be a double-dip, but my guess is that it will come in the form of the TV cut and the 2000 cut appearing together down the line. I remain skeptical that the original mix will appear in lossless. Studio types imagine that they have maxed out the video and audio quality when they release a UHD BD with an Atmos mix, and unfortunately the average consumer agrees with them. They tend to regard original mixes as a curiosity, which is why they feel they have done them justice with a lossy encoding.
In fact, my suspicion is that it's only because of Atmos that we received the original mix at all. Without the craze for Atmos, Warner might well have settled for putting the 5.1 remix on the disc (as they have in the past) and not revisited the audio (going back to the '78 mixes) at all.
Needless to say, I agree with you when it comes to the original audio. And there will certainly be interest in your synced LD PCM! But the fact that Warner releases tend to be the same worldwide means that it's unlikely that we'll see the original mix in lossless on UHD BD. I hope to be proven wrong.
