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Originally Posted by wormraper
ummmm, any reviewer worth his salt will only review a stereo track on 2 speakers. "upmixing" won't give you an accurate reading of the original source material as it's now been cut apart and remixed artificially.
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A lot of 2.0 tracks on DVD and Blu-ray are designed for matrix decoding. Obviously most older (pre-70s) films in mono or stereo are meant to be heard just like that, but look at the back of the box for Criterion’s releases of films like Brazil, Mishima, or Three Colors Trilogy. Those films are “2.0 Surround” because they’re meant to be matrixed. There’s a difference between what Criterion labels as “stereo” and what’s on those discs.