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| tess514 Member Montreal, Canada 21 Posts 2/01 |  Posted - Feb 19 2001 : 2:52PMWhy do a lot of DVD boxcovers state that the film has "5.1 stereo sound" when there is no such thing? Either it has 5.1 digital surround sound or it has stereo sound, it can't be both. Anybody have any idea?  [Link] |
| Oneloa Member 848 Posts 2/00 | Posted - Feb 19 2001 : 3:02PM I'm not sure why they do this. I'm guessing it was put there by someone who doesn't really know the difference. These mistakes happen all the time. For instance, ever seen a movie that has the actress's name spelled differently on the box cover than the movie credits? I still don't get that one! - [ invalid url ]  [Link] |
| Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99 | Posted - Feb 19 2001 : 3:06PM [Link] |
| 2dvd Senior Member Trading DVDs 1447 Posts 12/00 | Posted - Feb 19 2001 : 6:59PM How about this one. Name spelled right, but not in the movie. [Link] |
| Saki At-Large 2087 Posts 11/99 | Posted - Feb 19 2001 : 9:37PM I've also found some with Dolby Digital Surround audio, which is just matrixed from the production stereo track. In other words, there's no discrete surround channel and the surround is "faked." There are DD5.0 and DD5.1 titles that definitely have discrete channels and sometimes an LFE channel. The surrounds tend to be nothing more than the music portion of the soundtrack. Sometimes there's directional effects out of the rear speakers, but that's pretty rare in adult titles. In many cases though, the boxcovers are technically incorrect, and the only way to know what you're getting is to put it in the player and see what shows up. - Saki [Link] |
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| tess514 Member Montreal, Canada 21 Posts 2/01 | Posted - Feb 20 2001 : 10:46AM [Link] |
| Takeo Member 104 Posts 5/00 | Posted - Feb 20 2001 : 3:01PM [Link] |
| Saki At-Large 2087 Posts 11/99 | Posted - Feb 20 2001 : 3:11PM I'd agree that it's generally unnecessary, especially since nearly all porn is shot with a stereo mike. But occasionally, it does pay off. The best example I can think of is Andrew Blake's Pin-Ups 2 , which features a 360 degree sound pan--very cool. - Saki [Link] |
| ImageKat Member 26 Posts 12/00 | Posted - Feb 21 2001 : 12:42PM it goes. Most of the movies that are used to go to DVD are Beta Sp split track, vocal in right and music in left, or whatever, but regardless something has to be done to it to get it more to standards of what people expect on the DVD's. You are correct in assuming that alot of people really don't understand unless it is recorded originally 5.1 it can't be 5.1 on the finished version. Only phantom, dolby digital surround, or AC-3, all the same thing, is studio faked surround sound to give you the better sound quality on the DVD. Some people don't fully understand this, but as you the viewers, reviewers and consumers keep pointing it out to the labels, they will get the message, our eyes and ears are open so give us the true facts on the boxes. Kat [Link] |
| Takeo Member 104 Posts 5/00 | Posted - Feb 21 2001 : 6:52PM Yes... I guess it's not really 5.1 by definition since you are not actually getting 5 channels of sound (plus an LFE). The thing is, with the disc in question, my theater amp says that it is receiving and decoding multi-channel sound (i.e. the multi-channel decode light goes on) but I'm only getting stereo. Maybe the "multi-channel" indicator on my amp (Sony DRE945) just goes on when it detects AC-3 encoded sound but not necssarily 5+ channels... not sure. [Link] |
| ImageKat Member 26 Posts 12/00 | Posted - Feb 22 2001 : 11:07AM That is correct, the light will go on with both AC-3 and PCM as it is multi channel, but not 5.1. Ahh, the wonders of modern technology. Kat [Link] |
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