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Here it is guys the basic rules that no movie house seems to follow-
1 All DVD movies should be a 2 disc set.
HIGHEST QUALITY audio and video transfer on one and extras for
the non moviefile on the other2 All DVD movies should be DTS or THX EX (absolute min DD5.1)
3 All DVD movies should be 16:9 enhanced
4 All DVD movies should be identical across all regions and by
that I mean we all should get the BEST version available
the FIRST TIME5 And finally due to the certain increase in sales that would
follow A REDUCED PRICE
Does this sound easy to you or am I missing something?
Follow Ups:
ALL DVDs? Rio Grande? Gone With The Wind? Rio Bravo? Double Indemnity?
Sad to say some people don't realize there were movies made for 75 years before Jaws and StarWars.Check out A Touch of Evil, Metropolis, Citizen Kane, or Der Blaue Engel for example.
On the other hand Singin' in the Rain was made with multitrack sound but got mixed down to mono. Until DVD came along almost noone ever got a chance to hear it as it really was!
It was? I always thought the "multitrack" versions of "Singin' in the Rain" derived at least in part from the MGM "angle" recordings: multiple microphone pickups not originally intended for multitrack reproduction (but remixed as such today). The Rhino/Turner soundtrack CD of "Singin'" is mostly in mono, with a few selections in stereo (again derived from the angle recordings).These angle recordings were used to make the "stereo" LD version of "Meet Me in St. Louis." Parts of "The Wizard of Oz" were also recorded this way. The recent "Sinatra in Hollywood" CD box set includes a number of excerpts from Sinatra's MGM musicals remixed to stereo, also from these sources.
Anyway, AFAIK "Singin' in the Rain" was meant to be presented in mono. Any multitrack recordings were purely incidental and not originally intended for multichannel use.
Yes, classic economics say the more one sells, the cheaper
they should become - however, factoring in the greed exhibited
by movie company executives, it's more like what the market will
bear.Another case in point, upcoming digital movies - cheaper for
movie company which one would HOPE would translate to
cheaper tickets -- think again!Time to go, my soap box is wobbling.
Cheers,
hpc
dvd player with a 75$ chip, that will allow you to play movies from any region--seems well worth the price.I'm miffed because I can't find Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends on dvd, or vhs, here--so I tried to order it abroad, and was informed that it wouldn't play in my us machine.
oh pooh,
mp
:-)
...JVC also makes a very good PAL/NTSC DVD player with conversion, as well as S-VHS machines with same. I'll see if I can find the website -they're in Michigan. The players were very reasonable.I'm contemplating a WS plasma or DLP display, which can do PAL and NTSC, no need for converter - I think the Panny 42" also does SECAM, so that should pretty much cover it.
I've found, much to my disgust, that a lot of material either isn't released in North America, or it's a superior version for Region 2 (like the recent DVD of All That Jazz). Many European classics are still unavailable here, as well as certain Brit TV - as you found out.
A word of warning: because of different frame rates of film vs PAL and the film to video conversion, PAL DVDs and videos are ever so slightly speeded up. Some people never notice, some do. There are players out there with pitch adjustment - that's what they're for, the audio, being faster, is ever so slightly higher in pitch. The Region 1 Lord of the Rings is 178 minutes. The Region 2 LOTR is 170 minutes. Nothing cut. Just a faster frame rate for PAL.
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nt
Check out the link below to win the war against "regionalisation".As for this ending, I don't think it will be in the near future. I read that Hollywood (the culprit behind the problem) was going to try to get releases in the US and abroad to have less of a gap, but nothing further ever came from this initial news.
I've also read that an enhanced version of region coding is on its way/already implemented. This "enhancement" may give trouble to some players that have been modded or have features in their "hidden" or service menus to allow all region play.
These stories sound contradictory to me. The reality is that Hollywood and the MPAA want to get the most out of their releases in the US and abroad -- and that means region coding. There is usually a 6 month gap between movie releases in the US and abroad, due to the fact that stars have changing schedules and promotions to do (for millions of $, I'd let anyone make my schedule for me! :-)). I can understand that to some extent, but let's get that down to 3 or 4 months tops. It is doable.
What I am completely against is the issue of soundtracks. Why should a DVD release in the UK get a DTS soundtrack, when those of us in the US -- where the God damn movie was made -- only get a Dolby Digital track? Who decides this? The movie studios.
Like mom always said, "If they had brains... they'd be dangerous.".
Hi Joe,
actually my Denon DVD 2800 is modded to play regions 1 and 2 and, frankly, I made it clear to the dealer that I would only buy on that condition. Actually, I can live with a 6 months delay, if need be, but similar to the problem you have with the soundtracks, I will not accept that the US release features much more material than the European ones (example: Shrek), even less that the industry morons decide to release films, series, whatever, in one region only. Who do these bozo's think they are that they can decide who is allowed to see what material. Utterly unacceptable, curse them!!!
Since you said "ALL", I know of many movies that does not require high bitrate DTS or EX (mostly the small production movies). But often, they end up with bad transfers of video.
Your statement
> > > 2 All DVD movies should be DTS or THX EX (absolute min DD5.1) < < <should read:
2 All DVD movies should be DTS or THX EX (absolute min DTS 5.1 at 1.5Mbs)
The Dolby Digital soundtrack should be relegated to 2-channel at 192 kbs for the "stone-agers" that don't have DTS capability.
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