John Carter 3D UK DTS HD MA 7.1?!?

[iceblu]

Haven't yet gotten round to buying this but I was just reading the review of the UK 3D Blu-ray in August's Home Cinema Choice and they gave the audio an oustounding thumbs up, giving it 5 out of 5. It's confirmed in the review as DTS HD MA 7.1 yet I've been hearing rumours of it being DTS HD HR 7.1?? Are there 2 versions going around coz I don't wanna buy the wrong edition???

[Blu Lemmy]

Prob could have asked this in the JC thread to be fair

[chip75]

I think it's been confirmed by members that it's a HR track on the 2D version at least. If Disney start screwing with UK customers by making the definitive version only available on 3D a lot of people are going to be very upset.

[BJQ1972]

Originally Posted by chip75

I think it's been confirmed by members that it's a HR track on the 2D version at least. If Disney start screwing with UK customers by making the definitive version only available on 3D a lot of people are going to be very upset.

HR track is on 3D version too.

[iceblu]

So I wonder why the reviewer states it's MA7.1 then! Is there much difference between MA and HR soundwise as I don't own any HR soundtrack movies!

[duggie walker]

For what it's worth, the HR track is positively room-shaking. If no-one had mentioned that it wasn't lossless, I'd be none the wiser. In fact, I'd be saying the soundtrack was noticeably better than most. Maybe it's even better in lossless but I'd wager only the most highly-trained ears would notice the difference.

Cue the highly-trained ears...

[chip75]

Originally Posted by iceblu

So I wonder why the reviewer states it's MA7.1 then! Is there much difference between MA and HR soundwise as I don't own any HR soundtrack movies!

Either a typo or they had the US version (or a review copy with HD audio) and assumed ours would follow suit.

[idlebrain]

Originally Posted by duggie walker

For what it's worth, the HR track is positively room-shaking. If no-one had mentioned that it wasn't lossless, I'd be none the wiser. .

I completely agree with above comment. But still why the hell Disney have to screw the Non US releases of their BDs. Why can't they just use the same encode is beyond me.

[insomniac013]

Originally Posted by chip75

I think it's been confirmed by members that it's a HR track on the 2D version at least. If Disney start screwing with UK customers by making the definitive version only available on 3D a lot of people are going to be very upset.

They're already doing this... (Cars 2 and Pirates 4)

[wesslan]

Seems it could be all but US since we here in Sweden also only got HR tracks so no way I'm buying it.

[idlebrain]

Yeah In Disney's Eyes world is of two zones, US and Rest of the world. Remember all those PCM tracks are 24bit in US and 16bit for ROW.

[ravenus]

With regards to above remarks, it may be because Disney feels that European/non-US countries are more likely to turn on non-English dubs for the film and on some of the discs have provided less compressed DTS-HR/DTS mixes for dubs there and DD5.1 in the US version. It does shortchange the people who want the best possible original language mix, but it's not likely a result of Disney ROW deliberately screwing the customers.

[Dubliner1]

Originally Posted by insomniac013

They're already doing this... (Cars 2 and Pirates 4)

UK 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' (aka Pirates 4) has English dts 7.1 Master Audio...it is only the French and Italian tracks which are HR.

[Geoff D]

The UK 3D version of Pirates 4 is definitely High-Res 7.1 though.

[mrpants]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

The UK 3D version of Pirates 4 is definitely High-Res 7.1 though.

What about the 2D version?

[Geoff D]

see the post above mine