Image IMAX blurays- lossless??
10-07-08, 10:59 AM
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Image IMAX blurays- lossless??
what's the story here, I can't seem to find consistent or verifiable info on these upcoming releases.
The Living Sea
Dolphins
Coral Reef Adventure
Fighter Pilot
I know that all the IMAX discs are not in the original aspect ratio but reformatted to 1.78 - oh well, what can you do? (not buy them?
), but seriousily... it appears that 'Fighter Pilot' has Dolby TrueHD... but what happened to DTS-MA? Image Entertainment has always been supportive of it's IMAX standard DVD discs to feature DTS. I know that Warner's has pretty much resigned their IMAX discs to not include lossless (earlier releases did, more recent titles: Cosmic Voyage/Destiny In Space and Space Station/Mission to Mir, no), but Image, they'd seem to be less asinine and have common sense to include lossless then the boneheads over at Warners.
IMAX's 70mm/hoizontal imagery and aggressive soundmixes seem ideal for bluray - so far though it's been a mixed bag.
side comment: the upcoming 'Baraka' bluray has been confirmed by DVD Aficinado to feature DTS-MA sound - hooray!
and still no word on Everest from Disney
The Living Sea
Dolphins
Coral Reef Adventure
Fighter Pilot
I know that all the IMAX discs are not in the original aspect ratio but reformatted to 1.78 - oh well, what can you do? (not buy them?
), but seriousily... it appears that 'Fighter Pilot' has Dolby TrueHD... but what happened to DTS-MA? Image Entertainment has always been supportive of it's IMAX standard DVD discs to feature DTS. I know that Warner's has pretty much resigned their IMAX discs to not include lossless (earlier releases did, more recent titles: Cosmic Voyage/Destiny In Space and Space Station/Mission to Mir, no), but Image, they'd seem to be less asinine and have common sense to include lossless then the boneheads over at Warners. IMAX's 70mm/hoizontal imagery and aggressive soundmixes seem ideal for bluray - so far though it's been a mixed bag.
side comment: the upcoming 'Baraka' bluray has been confirmed by DVD Aficinado to feature DTS-MA sound - hooray!
and still no word on Everest from Disney
10-07-08, 12:01 PM
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According to the Image Entertainment website for The Living Sea (this is the one I'm interested in, so I didn't check the others), the audio will be DTS HD Master Audio 5.1.
http://www.image-entertainment.com/d...roductID=70264
http://www.image-entertainment.com/d...roductID=70264
10-07-08, 09:51 PM
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They're both lossless, who cares? If we're talking lossy formats, I think the general consensus has been DTS has a better compression scheme and is usually a higher bitrate. But lossless? It's like comparing ZIP to RAR, the end result is always the same.
10-08-08, 12:42 PM
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honestly if the IMAX discs were Dolby Digital TrueHD I wouldn't have a problem with that either, but for Warner's to give such shoddy attention to it's IMAX discs is just insulting IMO.
