Joseph DeMartino
Moderator
DVD Journal's Mark Bourne is clearly a fan of the show, but he's also a critic who pays attention to what's on-screen (and coming through his speakers)
Remember The DVD File's comment about how bad the Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack was? (Later revised to a complaint that the DD 5.1 track sounded like 2.0 - a change made after numerous fans informed the writer that the show had been remixed in 5.1, something he evidently wasn't aware of when he supposedly watched the discs.) Here's what Bourne has to say:
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The chief strength is each ep's audio, which was remastered in DD 5.1 surround. The sound here is a revelation — clear as crystal, with strong range all the way down to some .1 LFE oomph. The separation spread impresses without gratuitous gimmickry, tastefully providing environmental ambiance effects and occasional spaceship whoosh support.
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He also dismisses complaints about (some) of the CGI shots as the carping of "digi-heads" with jumbo monitors, and says that the flaws, scratches etc. in the original prints are minor, and affect the early episodes more than the later ones. So it sounds like the R1 version is going to be pretty much everything we've all been hoping for, and I hate all of you who already have yours even more than I did earlier this evening. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Regards,
Joe
Remember The DVD File's comment about how bad the Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack was? (Later revised to a complaint that the DD 5.1 track sounded like 2.0 - a change made after numerous fans informed the writer that the show had been remixed in 5.1, something he evidently wasn't aware of when he supposedly watched the discs.) Here's what Bourne has to say:
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The chief strength is each ep's audio, which was remastered in DD 5.1 surround. The sound here is a revelation — clear as crystal, with strong range all the way down to some .1 LFE oomph. The separation spread impresses without gratuitous gimmickry, tastefully providing environmental ambiance effects and occasional spaceship whoosh support.
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He also dismisses complaints about (some) of the CGI shots as the carping of "digi-heads" with jumbo monitors, and says that the flaws, scratches etc. in the original prints are minor, and affect the early episodes more than the later ones. So it sounds like the R1 version is going to be pretty much everything we've all been hoping for, and I hate all of you who already have yours even more than I did earlier this evening. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Regards,
Joe
