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Wow this is great news guys. I hadn't sat down to watch this in ages because I knew of the BD futzing with color and sound (typical of any Mann film it seems). That the Japanese BD is different is no surprise since WB has been reissuing older discs over there with either improved video specs or lossless audio (Unforgiven, Last Samurai).
A hybrid with the Japanese BD video and the US LD audio tracks would be great and probably the best we could do for now. Don't be fooled by puny 384 kbp/s specs of LD ac3, because those can still knock your head off.
And I'm still probably going to get the LD anyway...why? because I have an addiction to those shiny things...
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I just ran the LD with ac3 last night. I'm not a huge expert on this film, but what I came away with is this:
The LD ac3 has tons of high end noise/hiss that shifts with scenes indicating that it is very likely completely untouched. The loud/soft sound shifting is part of the sound design and to my ears works well sometimes for realism and not so well at other instances for jarring you out of the movie. The dialogue is very low in the mix and mushy at times leading many lines to come off as indistinct.
I'll have to try the PCM to compare but it should be the same.
Also of note is that the image is shifted up as if this were from a Japanese master and the subs had been removed ala the SWE Star Wars.
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I watched the new blu ray of heat the other week I thought my speakers were gonna explode from the planes going overhead in the end, even in new movies ive never heard audio this loud. my only complaint with the audio is the dialog was mixed too low.