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Avatar bluray dtsHDMA VS Avatar Dolby stereo digital
The bluray dtsHDMA wow it seesm to be lacking its so called perfect low end against the DVD six-track Dolby stereo digital, mix. I think I’ll run the DVD version from now.
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Leviathan (1989) region 1 DVD
Leviathan (1989) turned up early this morning.
Region 1 NTSC
Dolby stereo 4.2.4
Scope 2.35:1 (16:9)
Running time 1hour 38 minutes
Animated main menu
Extras: Theatrical trailer
DVD encoding and authoring by Laserpacific media corporation
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097737/
Full list
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097737/fullcredits#cast
The colour balance is spot on no issues with (green cyan smearing) with blue colours with white lighting in the underwater scenes that was filmed in smoked out stage to simulate the illusion.
If this ever got transferred to bluray it should have the same unaltered transfer as there is nothing wrong with colour balance or brightness/contrast levels.
A mild bit EE is visible
Dolby stereo sounds fine (a bit soft in level). Fader level I’ve set to +3db a bit higher than normal (only the HP filters over LCR on the LF is keeping the harshness down with the HF turned down on all HF outputs on the DCX2496 not all the way down just enough to bring the level inline where the LF higher end starts to drop off).
Surrounds are balanced to single screen front channel.
S/W re-mix is switched to (ON) to send the last 2 octaves to the JBL sub or (sub bass extension as I would call it). The smaller sub has its outputs muted so no need for it, unless it’s discrete 4.0/4.1/5.1 Dolby mix.
Its too bad “The Abyss” (1989) wasn’t treated with the same respect to proper colour balance as “Leviathan”, it’s down to lousy video engineers or few that take pride in their profession.
I’m guessing the lowers only go as low as 30Hz, I’d have to check with the Spectrumlab later on and see how far down or what parts have the highest peak.
I see “Leviathan” being watched the most over the new bluray/DVD “Avatar”.
Leviathan has had its second running today and that is more than I gave “Avatar” for its first day release in the JBL control home cinema.
The film was dubbed Alien underwater thou there’s no alien just man tampering with genetics of human DNA and turning humans into fish like beings so they can work underwater or what ever?
The one line in the film where the, Doc played by (Richard Grenna) translates Greek into English.
Don’t fuck with Mother Nature
Some nice LCR occasionally clear dialogue panning moves from right to centre or hard panned left.
Jerry Goldsmith’s score has nice other worldly feel a bit different from his Alien score (1979) which had less music time though its almost 2 hour running time.
The film as clichés of Alien with eight crew members in Leviathan and 7 in Alien or eight if you count Jones the cat!
One by one the crew dies of horribly.
If there is one scene in the film that I find distressing is where (Lisa Eilbacher) Bridget Bowman losses her hair after sharing a drinking from (Daniel Stern) Buzz 'Sixpack' Parrish who has already taken new form and later the two merge together in yucky slimy way.
I liked the chactutre played by (Hector Elizondo) G. P. Cobb too bad he was bumped off near towards the end.
(Meg Foster) Martin has nice blue eyes gives he chactutre a cold feel where she is delaying by picking the crew up in emergency rescue, would sooner see them die.
The scene where it grabs (Michael Carmine) Tony 'DeJesus' Rodero in the kitchen is laughable today.
(Ernie Hudson) Justin Jones gives some cheesy one-liners too bad the sea creature thing got him at the end. Talk about having a bad day when sharks start surrounding them on the surface.
Only two survive in each of these films Ripley and Jones the cat in Alien. Leviathan Steven Beck (Peter Weller) and Elizabeth 'Willie' Williams (Amanda Pays) only make it. I mean she looked bit like a sexy cat.:p