La femme Nikita Besson multi-mixes

[dvdmike]

This film is a 2 channel Dolby SR matrix film as far as I know. The best sound I've heard is my remastered letterboxed LD which is far better than the 5.1 upmix.

Most films after '77 started going to matrixed stereo and by the mid 80's practically everything but low budget films were Dolby stereo. SR came about in '89 and was really a big leap forward in terms of quality for general 35mm release audio. Later optical tracks even into the 90's still carried SR encoding and modern Dolby decoders still have SR for film presentations.

As said above you just have to check tracks and credits as there weren't flags until DVD and those were barely ever used.

Die hard is Dolby stereo so check the 35mm original mix against say for example Licence to Kill's original mix which is an early SR release. SR remained dominant until a few years after ac3 premiered.

Die hard had a six track mix.

The UK blu has a 2.0 pcm mix

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[captainsolo]

Die hard had a six track mix.
The UK blu has a 2.0 pcm mix

I was giving an example of comparing a very good DS track to a later SR one. If Disclord's theory was correct, Die Hard got its 70mm blowup and beefed up 6 track audio after test screenings went well.

Thanks, I didn't realize Nikita had a modern release without the 5.1 remix.

[Evit]

I didn't want to open a new thread for a little question so you'll forgive me if I ask it here: in what language are the intro titles and end credits in your Blu-Ray releases? French or English?

[Colek]

UK StudioCanal Steelbook release has French titles.

[Stamper]

Need to check but I think they are all french.

I don't think there was ever localised titles.

[Evit]

I thought in America they might have been.

[SpaceBlackKnight]

The Trimark DVD IIRC had English titles, since that used the US print opening Samuel Goldwyn indents at the start and end. I notice that on the French DD Tru HD track on my US Nikita BD that the rear surrounds seem to be "mono", not split stereo L/R like I see on most remixes (the eng track had split L/R surrounds and seemed mixed differently though it could be me hearing things different due to lack of sleep from lifer things). I speculate that the since all BDs includ the Sony BD use the same HD master (Crica 2005-ish, since they open with Gaumont tag with a flower forming the logo that was used at the time), the FR 5.1 mix may be the same as the DTS-MA 5.0 on the Gaumont BD (which is also rumored to be the original Dolby Surround mix) but with an LFE added.

[Red41804]

The Australian Blu Ray has a 5.1 PCM track