Outbreak (1995) Audio Comparison LD/DVD/BD/4K

[bendermac]

Welp, Shout Factory just released Outbreak on 4K Blu-ray and I'm not super happy. No extras for this movie at all. But for the audio I was hoping to get a proper restoration of the audio. The LaserDisc was just awesome and many used it for demos back in the day. The R1 DVD should have the same mix, but I don't have it to verify. I was able to get the audio from the R2 DVD though.. The Warner Blu-ray came with a Dolby TrueHD mix, while the new Shout Factory 4K has a DTS-HD MA mix. Judging purely from the spectrogram, I'd give the Warner Bros the lead. The Shout Factory looks a little bit filtered. The 2.0 PCM from the LD is still awesome.

[Beber]

This is what CiNEPHiLES had to say about it:
"This movie has two mixes Dolby Stereo SR digital and Stereo SR for other theatres not equipped for 5.1 surround. The mixes vary in some parts, so I decided to include both. For 5.1, Shout Factory still has good dynamic range for being lossless, while the previous Warner's blu-ray had less, with inept filtering on the center and lots of dithering (the TrueHD 5.1 is 16-bit, just has a 24-bit padding), so kept the shout one. For the stereo mix, the Shout seems to have the stereo mix but has limiting and some NR on mids and highs vs the USA LaserDisc, so synced the LaserDisc audio to the remux."

[bendermac]

Dang it... Cinephiles was already on it HAHAHA... I just finished syncing the LD

[dvdmike]

The LD upmixed to prologic Z well also, have some semblance of height with some scenes