Featuring both 2.0 and 5.1 Dolby
Digital audio mixes, the latter demonstrates a nice depth of field, including some excellent rear - channel effects and a throaty rumble from the subwoofer.
Not exact matches
The
audio doesn't suffer from any technical problems, as this Dolby
Digital 2.0
mix offers clean dialogue, background details and a fair amount of channel separation.
The 5.1 Dolby
Digital mix possesses your
audio equipment and forces it to work overtime.
There's also an English «
audio description track» for the visually impaired (in which a woman delivers pithy descriptions of the on - screen action in a hurried voiceover layered atop a Dolby
Digital 5.1
mix), plus a French Dolby
Digital 5.1 track.
Similarly, Dolby
Digital 5.1 used to represent the peak (and standard) of home theater
audio, but these discs»
mixes feel kind of lackluster, often making limited use of the sound field despite the genre leanings.
Conversely, for better or worse, nothing stands out about the Dolby
Digital 5.1
audio, which reproduces a run - of - the - mill comedy
mix with adequate clarity.
Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case, Creation comes to DVD presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, with a Dolby
digital 5.1 surround sound
audio mix, and optional English and Spanish subtitles.
The single Dolby
Digital 5.1
audio track here presents the film's original matrixed surround
mix, but in discrete channels; as a result, the surrounds are mono (though they're encoded as two separate channels).
As for the
audio, the primary
audio track on the DVD is a Dolby
Digital 5.1
mix.
The Blu - ray
audio options are anchored by English language 5.1 DTS - HD and 2.0 DVS tracks, as well as Spanish and French Dolby
digital 5.1 surround sound
mixes.
Your other choices are restored original English
audio in Dolby Surround 2.0 and French and Spanish Dolby
Digital 5.1 Disney Enhanced Home Theater
mixes.
Editor / sound re-recording
mixer Walter Murch brings some Apocalypse Now flair to the soundmix, presented here in crisp 5.1 Dolby
Digital; most of Jarhead is relatively quiet, which was perhaps the rationale for leaving off a DTS option, but one does note the slightest timidity in the explosions and gunfire and wonder if the
audio is living up to its potential.
A distortion - free 5.1
audio mix in Dolby
Digital and DTS configurations demonstrates a little weakness in its centre channel (which can be compensated for to some extent through equalizing), but for source material of this age, the sound demonstrates a remarkable fidelity.
The accompanying
audio, in not - dissimilar 7.1 DTS - HD and 5.1 Dolby
Digital EX configurations, mainly adds low - end to the original mono
mix (also on board) and broadens its dynamic range so that the dubbed dialogue, for example, sounds less squelched.
* Minor edge - enhancement issues aside, the image very simply delivers — ditto the Dolby
Digital 5.1
audio: the front - heavy
mix sounds crisp and warm, though Meryl Streep's dialogue occasionally dips so far below reference volume as to be inaudible.
Better than Turkish Delight, both versions offer English
audio tracks in DTS 5.1
Digital Surround Sound and 5.1 Disney Enhanced Home Theater
Mix, with subtitles in French and Spanish.
The
audio mix makes active use of the Dolby
Digital 5.1 soundstage, pumping up the out - of - nowhere scares.
Unquestionably marvellous is the (anachronistic) 5.1 Dolby
Digital audio, featuring more gut - churning bass than Dolby owners will be used to as the robots march on New York City, though this showpiece use of the LFE channel occurs so early in the action that it's a mild letdown when no other facet of the
mix proves quite as memorable.
Dolby
Digital and DTS 5.1 soundtracks grace the platter, both of them rendering a loud and detailed but not especially discrete
mix with comparable clarity, though I prefer the DTS
audio for the extra punch it gives the action beats of the picture.
The default
audio is an English dub (credibly voice cast and overseen by Mike Schlesinger of the Americanized Godzilla 2000) in rich, transparent Dolby
Digital 5.1, and while it sounds technically fantastic, purist that I am, I will always watch Time and Tide in Cantonese (5.1, too, with dialogue
mixed a bit quieter).
Four
audio tracks are provided, with the only English version being a Dolby
Digital 5.1
mix.
The Dolby
Digital 5.1 soundtrack is equally outstanding, delivering a highly engulfing and active
audio mix.
Selectable
audio formats are the film's original monaural
mix, encoded in lossy Dolby
Digital 2.0, and a new DTS - HD MA 7.1 soundtrack.
Dolby
Digital 5.1
audio mixes in Cantonese and dubbed English are nearly identical save for the latter being slightly goofier than the former — the rear channels don't get much of a workout except during a few of the fight scenes (which aren't showcase material, after all, but not bad).
The accompanying Dolby
Digital 5.1
audio, in similarly -
mixed English and Japanese flavours, is more aggressive / expansive than we've been conditioned to expect from Ghibli titles, particularly whenever the titular castle is in transport.
There are no signs of extensive
digital augmentation and the monaural
audio track remains free of distortion, as dialogue and music are balanced and equally
mixed.
More objectively flawed is the Dolby
Digital 5.1
audio: dialogue is
mixed much too low (there's hushed and then there's inaudible), necessitating a boost in volume well past reference level, at which point Max Avery Lichtenstein's inventive score sounds intrusively loud.
Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case in turn stored in a cardboard slipcover, $ 5 a Day comes to DVD presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, with a Dolby
digital 5.1
audio mix, and optional, lax English and Spanish subtitles, each of which feature some errors.
Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case in turn stored in a cardboard slipcover, Altitude comes to DVD presented in 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen, divided into a dozen chapters, with an English language Dolby
digital 5.1 surround sound
audio mix, and optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles.
The
audio is presented in English, Spanish and French language Dolby
digital 2.0 surround sound
mixes, with optional subtitles in the former two tongues.
On Blu - ray, the movie is presented in 1080P high definition 2.40:1 widescreen;
audio comes in the form of 7.1 DTS - HD, with a French language Dolby
digital 5.1
mix as well.
Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case, Command Performance comes to DVD divided into a dozen chapters, presented in 2.35:1 widescreen, with English language Dolby
digital 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo
audio mixes, and optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles.
The DVD is also the first from Touchstone Pictures (or anything other than Walt Disney Pictures, for that matter) to feature the Dolby
Digital 5.1 Enhanced Home Theater
Mix audio track.
The Dolby
Digital 5.1
audio is equally elegant, if beholden to a dialogue - driven affair in the wake of the masterfully -
mixed balloon sequence, with only rainfall making aggressive use of the rear discretes thereafter.
Special Features New 4K
digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with 2.0 surround DTS - HD Master
Audio soundtrack New Q&A in which Jarmusch responds to questions sent in by fans Rarely seen footage of Neil Young composing and performing the film's score New interview with actor Gary Farmer New readings of William Blake poems by members of the cast, including Mili Avital, Alfred Molina, and Iggy Pop New selected - scene
audio commentary by production designer Bob Ziembicki and sound
mixer Drew Kunin Deleted scenes Jarmusch's location scouting photos PLUS: Essays by film critic Amy Taubin and music journalist Ben Ratliff
The primary
audio track on the DVDs is a Dolby
Digital 5.1
mix.
Audio - Disney has done a 5.1 Dolby
Digital track, and while the
audio does not always sound of the highest quality, the sound
mix is adequate.
The Dolby
Digital 5.1
audio mix is likewise clear with a surprising amount of channel separation and atmospheric effects.
The primary
audio track on the disc is a Dolby
Digital 5.1
mix.
Once again, the Dolby
Digital 5.1 track is one of the best -
mixed audio presentations for a sitcom on DVD.
The sound is less likely to astound, though the barely distinguishable DTS and Dolby
Digital 5.1
mixes do offer a few interesting passages of discrete
audio, such as a background argument between Larry and Roberta after Schmidt first arrives in Denver.
Never quite bassy enough during the stadium sequences, the Dolby
Digital 5.1
audio nevertheless honours an intermittently atmospheric
mix, while music and dialogue are loud without sounding harsh or, conversely, clipped.
Audio - The Dolby
Digital 5.1
mix is not overly active, but
audio is clear and crisp.
The situation is much better on the
audio front: The Dolby
Digital 5.1
mix is probably the third - best of the year in the Dolby format (after Finding Nemo and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)-- a moment in which you hear guns being cocked in every corner of the room on the Tomb Raider 2 disc (review forthcoming) is magnificently, if anachronistically, expanded upon here to become a gimmick in any scene involving artillery, while the bass from Nemo's Nautilus is almost intense enough to make you sick.
Anchor Bay's superb letterboxed DVD comes with four
audio mixes (Dolby
Digital, DTS, Surround and original Mono) plus an
audio commentary track with four Peckinpah scholars.
The
audio track is a remastered Dolby
Digital 5.1
mix that relegates almost all the information to the front channels; musical interludes sound nearly as tinny and thin as the children staring robotically ahead as they karaoke each number.
Before we get down to the nitty - gritty: the 2.35:1, 16x9 - enhanced transfer is one of Fox's best in a while, though contrast is occasionally greyer than I prefer; the Dolby
Digital and DTS 5.1
mixes are quite rumbly, and there's excellent sidewall imaging with either
audio option during the dirt - nap climax.
The DVD also offers two English
audio tracks: a Dolby
Digital 5.1 Disney Enhanced Home Theater
Mix (apparently the same one used on the Platinum Edition) and the same Restored Original Theatrical Soundtrack found on the Blu - ray.
Both a Dolby
Digital 5.1
mix and a 2.0
audio presentation are offered.
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