If you can...get the JP DTS disc with the RED Grid around the Technical Specs at the bottom of the back cover...this indicates the corrected DTS version...

Its an amazing track!

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But can you tell the difference in the packaging, too? I've read that the back cover looks somewhat different... (like the grid around techn. specs looks different or something)

Right, that's exactly what I was talking about - the red grid on the package.

BUT there's a problem - I can't see the back cover when ordering in a web-store. And I can't go to U.S. store to check if the grid is red or not - I don't live in U.S.

And if I take the risk and order the disk in Internet (I'd tru Digitaleyes), and get the old "defective" version then I won't be able to replace it (Columbia House does not send replacements outside U.S. - they suggested me to buy the Region 2 disc in "my region" - how smart, huhh?).

I just picked up JP-DTS, The Lost World DTS, and JPIII (DTS & DD) from best buy last week on a 3-$20 deal. The JP is the corrected version. I used a Madden coupon to make it $16. Sweet.

What's "best buy"?

Mike, most movies are submitted to theatres in BOTH DTS and DD to ensure capatibility with the theatre's preference. So that wouldn't be an indication of anything.

that is what I figured. I know our local upgraded just for JP though.

Just a store in the U.S. Go to the Store forum and you'll see numerous threads delicated to the hate and like of it

Btw, they have a website bestbuy.com

anyone who has the corrected dts version, if you have a dvd-rom can you check the file dates for me? thanks.

The corrected version should have a time stamp of November, and the original disc has July. You can also check the inner ring of the disc. If it has D2R2 or PEMC 22 in it, then you have the corrected version. The orginal has D2R1 on the inner ring.

I bought mine from Best Buy a couple of weeks ago. The inner ring reads BB207871R2SP01> Is this the corrected version?

thanks a bunch!
my jp dts didn't have a red grid, but the files were dated november.

Here's "fact" for you....

I stood in the DVCC facility in Los Angeles just months after the first release of JP and asked them about that disc. They were reticent to offer details, but I was able to determine that both the DD and DTS tracks were sourced from the same audio master. This was said to be essentially the same as the theatrical mix with only the minor changes required for near field environments (home theater).

What Vince Maskeeper (and others) tried to tell people back then was, and is, true. The real truth of the matter is the DTS track on the first presing of this disc was completely unaltered and the weakness of the LFE track is a result of the DTS encoder not producing flat response in the LFE track (also a fact). The DD sounded stronger because the DTS track had a roll-off of bass frequencies betweem 50 and 100 Hz.

BTW, the disc was "fixed" not because of consumer outcry, but at the behest of DTS themselves through Amblin (who is about the only people that could get Universal to do such a thing). The way the disc was "fixed" was the disc was simply reauthored with the DTS track sourced from the master created for the DTS laserdisc several years before. A mix that was created specifically for laserdisc at the time and not truly representative of the theatrical mix.

Whether one is better than the other is not the point, or at least it shouldn't be. "Better" is purely subjective in this context anyway. The point is, the first disc represents the original intent of the filmmakers (the DD does) and the second pressing represents the intent of DTS. It should also be noted that when the disc was reauthored, someone made the decision to use the original mix for the DD track and used the LD mix only for the DTS track. Hmmmm....