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  1. #751
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    Star Trek VHS PAL widescreen collection Hi-Fi stereo Dolby stereo 4.2.4 matrix

    All I need is new Hi-Fi stereo VCR just hear what the Dolby mix sounds like on the compressed audio over the DVD/Bluray and laserdiscs.

    My present Hi-Fi stereo NICAM 728 digital VCR is kinder jaded now, and its been used at to boast the analogue Lt-Rt on analogue Dolby stereo as its done by -4db at normal level so I boast the output to input for the AVR so its within the same level as the Dolby digital or dts which even.
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    The green that smudges around the bright lights or floodlights on the helicopter is not how the film looked when projected in the cinema.

    This is the first edition laserdisc NTSC and it’s the same poor colour balance as it is on the THX laserdisc the DVD and even the bluray!

    Only a few films seem to ever make a 100% colour balance to video, and this isn’t one them!

    The video is bit lagging behind the audio. The video signal sent straight from the laserdisc player to the webcam mode for faster upload thou the Kworld device, the image has lines in it but it’s the colour you should be looking at.



    Note the colour blue! Well the issue lies with the (blue and white) you can even take a common video camera and aim the camera at blue light with white light behind and bingo! You see green! Now film will never see this! Only the natural colour of the blue and a tiny hint of white light behind it.

    I guess it takes special video engineer who knows how to do perfect telecine colour balance. The rest of them are just lousy and shouldn’t even be paid for there useless work.

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    Star trek (2009)

    I've set the frequency response just a bit wider up to 200Hz
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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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  5. #755
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    I just asked Sooty if he approves Avatar on bluray in dtsHDMA and he, said “no”.

    I then asked Sooty again if he approves Avatar on DVD in six-track Dolby stereo digital and his answer was “yes”.

    The Sooty as spoken!

    I must have played a scene where Sully jumps onto the back of the (dragon leader) just before Quaritch nudes the joystick in the pilots hand, banking the hover vehicle over to its right or left (depending on what you view it), some 10 times. The choir voices horns and stings just heightened the action.


    I might just very well order the region 1 DVD it with its Dolby stereo digital mix that will be just 1Hz lower over the region 2 DVD. But the DVD R2 was shamelessly leaving the bluray with its wimpy dtsHDMA in the dust.

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    Scramming and yelling!

    I placed a crossover filter using Link-witz Riley -48db @ 499Hz the top end was unaltered I then re-routed the HF out from the DCX2496 to the pc and turned the level up to +13db, I don’t think I want to listen to this at +13db!

    “Psycho98” (1998) as several scenes of screaming and yelling!
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    I’ve had the DVD “Cat People” (1982) for several years now. The six-track Dolby stereo is mixed with low end content down to 30Hz it sounds good enough for its age. I like vintage Dolby stereo films.

    “Putting out Fire with gasoline” performed by David Bowie played the film off nicely. Wow I miss the 80’s.

    Also I had to raise the LFE.1 to +10db the film is at such a low level.

    Overall master volume was set at +3db its low level Dolby film mix.

    Sooty, looks like one of those cat people. Sooty gives "Cat People" 5 paw stars.
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    The dream sequence has mild LFE.1 track that will be overtaken up the LCR front content so a rise of +10db will cause no harm to the sub.

    The LFE.1, fades of the mix when it cuts to the park scene, its mostly heavy in the centre. The centre channel is playing at its hardest throughout the film with milder lows on the left and right, I don’t need to do waterfalls I’ve played this film, far too many times.

    Wow how do I put the screen shots in chronicle order!? sigh That is not how I uploaded it’s how the software wants to sort it.
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    Now for Cat People I have to make it sound louder and make something “Inglorious Basterds” (2009) on blueray sound like a vitaphone “Inglorious Basterds” is a depressing and totally rubbish film!

    I’ll trade the film for region 1 DVD of "Rollerball" (1975) original just to get rid of “Inglorious Basterds”!

    The LFE.1 track shows more or less the same narrow range only fattened up to put the track in your face!

    The last few seconds of the cinema burning down with a few time bombs KABOOM!

    The range is not unique with the explosion on the LFE.1 in fact I’m bored to tears with it.

    Now Michael Minkler comes of like right Muppet. He’s worked along side with Kevin O’Connell in the past and what jerk.



    He comes off like idiot, trying to sound edit, engage that oversized melon of pea size brain. Umm, mm Umm stuttering pursing. The paint on the wall would have dried by the time, he engages his mind!
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    This scene still makes me laugh when Robert Loggia unleashes his road rage!

    I want you to get a fu&kers drivers manual” LOL “I want you to study that motherfu&ker! And I want to obey the god damn rules!”



    Play.com doesn’t have a region 1 DVD only region 2 and bit overpriced at £20.00 for special edition.


    Single DVD £16.98


    I'll think about it, I'd like to get a region 1 DVD.

  11. #761
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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.
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    Just a few "Leviathan" waterfalls from the open titles to end credits satisfied me.

    I like the whale sound effect in the opening titles as the scene goes deeper and deeper down to bottom of the ocean floor.
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    Beck punches his boss Martin with whack! He feels better now.

    Dolby stereo SR was the best analogue sound in its day, thou rarely used today unless the digital track is damaged then it switches automatically from Dolby digital to Dolby SR.
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  14. #764
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    I just ordered “Lost Highway” region 2 (£9.99) as I can’t find a decent region 1 DVD with six-track Dolby stereo.



    I want you to get a fu&kers drivers manual” LOL “I want you to study that motherfu&ker! And I want to obey the god damn rules!
    Mr.Eddy

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    As of yesterday all (new bluray titles) that come with dtsHDMA have now been banned in this, JBL home cinema.

    Now if the studios make it mandatory to release titles with equal fairness for (the paying consumer) to use both DOLBY TURE and dtshdma without forcing dtshdma onto the paying consumer.

    Studio offenders are

    20th Century Fox
    Sony pictures
    Optimum Releasing
    Universal Pictures

    Warner bros are now slyly moving over to it and betraying DOLBY!

    Paramount Pictures are still holding strong with DOLBY yet some titles have been released with dual sound formats giving equal rights to (the paying consumer) but for how long?



    The ban on dtsHDMA bluray won’t be lifted in this JBL home cinema until DOLBY TRUE and dtshdma are mandatory on all bluray titles as an international standard.

    Bluray titles that I presently have (since I have now stopped buying bluray) the titles not are not the the banned list are.

    Star Trek
    Star Trek the motion picture
    Star Trek II the wrath of Khan
    Star Trek III the search for Spock
    Star Trek IV the voyage home
    Star Trek V the final frontier
    Star Trek VI the undiscovered country

    Pearl Harbor
    Crimson Tide

    Blue Thunder (well it is banned because it has FAKE DOLBY STEREO 5.1 remix that is fit for a paper shedder and dustbin full of rats!)

    2010 the year we make contact (same as above)

    The Matrix
    The Matrix Reloaded
    The Matrix Revolutions
    History of Violence
    Cliffhanger
    The 6th Day
    Terminator 3
    Grease
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    We Were Soldiers
    Top Gun
    HEAT
    Casino Royale
    Black Rain (same as above FAKE DOLBY 5.1 remix with fake stereo surrounds!)
    2001 a space odyssey (same as above FAKE DOLBY 5.1 remix with fake stereo surrounds!)
    The Towering Inferno Warner has lied and produced it with abomination dtshdma while deceiving (the paying consumer) that its DOLBY TRUE 5.1 when in fact its scummy dtshdma.

    Only the 4.0 mix is DOLBY

    bluray titles with dtshdma that are totally banned in this JBL home cinema

    Whiteout
    Total Recall
    Inglorious Basterds
    The Bourne Supremacy
    The Bourne Ultimatum
    Die Hard 2
    The Hurt Locker
    2012
    Surrogates
    Avatar
    Independence Day
    Terminator 2 Judgement Day
    Leon
    The Thing
    Stargate

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