Striking Distance/So I Married an Axe Murderer SDDS?
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Striking Distance/So I Married an Axe Murderer SDDS?
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2022-01-07, 11:03 PM
Two Sony films from 1993. The IMDb claims they were shown theatrically in SDDS (6 or 8 channel) but the credits and posters make no mention of this. The BDs are 5.1 (as expected) but does anyone know what tracks were on the laserdiscs? Were these multi-channel digital or simply stereo? Thanx.
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2022-01-07, 11:21 PM
According to https://www.lddb.com/ they're both matrixed Dolby Surround.
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2022-01-08, 02:27 PM
So it would seem that the BD's 5.1 tracks are remixes...?
2022-01-08, 06:04 PM
Not necessarily, both of those movies were released on laserdisc before AC-3 or DTS were added to the laserdisc specifications. So while they may have enjoyed a discrete multichannel release in theatres the only option at the time for a laserdisc release was 2.0 PCM. Many titles got a later AC-3/DTS rerelease but I guess neither of these were popular enough to warrant a rerelease.
Having said this it wouldn't surprise me if the blu ray audio has been near-field remixed, the LD PCM tracks may well be better sounding Thanks given by: alleycat
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2022-01-08, 06:49 PM
(2022-01-08, 06:04 PM)zoidberg Wrote: Not necessarily, both of those movies were released on laserdisc before AC-3 or DTS were added to the laserdisc specifications. So while they may have enjoyed a discrete multichannel release in theatres the only option at the time for a laserdisc release was 2.0 PCM. Many titles got a later AC-3/DTS rerelease but I guess neither of these were popular enough to warrant a rerelease. Interesting. So unless we can prove these films were ever shown in SDDS it would seem that the LD stereo mixes are the most authentic. 
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2022-01-08, 09:51 PM
According to Sony own SDDS website, neither was released in SDDS.
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2022-01-08, 10:51 PM
Striking Distance credits on YouTube
Dolby Stereo https://youtu.be/fxG67gyQlHw Axe is the same https://youtu.be/r-2_nSjJRH8 Thanks given by: wongfeihung
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2022-01-09, 06:52 AM
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