The Arrow Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Actually reading the review it only scores 6 because the dubbing tracks are dodgy, not the quality of the actual audio.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Actually reading the review it only scores 6 because the dubbing tracks are dodgy, not the quality of the actual audio.

Biggest complaint seemed to be that if you watched the English track then everyone spoke English including the Italians but if you opted for the Italian language track then even the American actors spoke Italian. Um...

[Rik]

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[J Harker]

Reminds me a little of the earlier days of dvd and home cinema. When magazines would criticize the lack of a DTS-EX 532.1 track on a 50 year old b&w flick.

[davcol]

Reading the review im puzzled by the scores. The writer heaped praise on the film and the release but gave it an above average score. Strange.

[J Harker]

"When i watched my new Casablanca dvd it was like the label just assumed i wouldn't have four subwoofers set up in my living room, i sat their fully expecting the walls to vibrate when that Sam guy played it again...but not a thing..."

[Michael Brooke]

See also that early DVD reviewer who slammed Disney's Pinocchio for not being in widescreen.

[J Harker]

I used to regularly buy a few of the monthly review mags. I never forget DVD Review tearing the old Rambo dvds from Momentum apart because the films were 'stuck in the eighties'.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

When I used to review discs, the scoring went from 0 to 10. I would basically give a 5 to a disc where the sound was average for that release, regardless of age, and go up and down from there.

Points would be deducted for hissing, unbalanced volume levels, SD soundtracks on a HD disc, lack of synchronisation, but be awarded for something which stands out for good balance, clarity, HD sound which sounds like HD sound (because of clarity, balance, no interference from score etc.), an excellent soundstage from the sound direction to LFEs. Most discs easily scored above a 5, some close to a 10, but very few in the 0-4 range – I think only one did and that was a cheap kung fu movie that sounded like a well watched VHS tape.

I always considered the time at which a film was made, the technology available and whether post-dubbing was something which would have been part of the sound recorder and mixer's duty or not. For example, looking at Citizen Kane and the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie is not comparing apples with apples, but discs to be judged on their own merits.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

"When i watched my new Casablanca dvd it was like the label just assumed i wouldn't have four subwoofers set up in my living room, i sat their fully expecting the walls to vibrate when that Sam guy played it again...but not a thing..."

Where was this from?

Whoever wrote that was a knob. The song is a ballad on a piano. Why the **** would the walls vibrate?