Mission Impossible - Impossible for proper audio paramount?

[crashfellow]

I've just had to return my copy of Mission Impossible 3 to Sanity, due to the fact that after buying it i found that it only has Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.

Now to me, this is a dodgy cheap out on the part of paramount, and apparently a world wide issue.

I have to ask, how do the people in paramount consider this a perfectly fine way to release a blu-ray? is nobody checking this sort of thing?

[LordCrumb]

There is a re-release coming out soon, that might have Lossless.

[gettodamoofies]

Originally Posted by LordCrumb

There is a re-release coming out soon, that might have Lossless.

They came out a couple of weeks back. The UK re-releases have been confirmed to be the exact same discs (e.g. lossy audio and MPEG-2 video) and the local art lists DD 5.1 so no luck there.

I think this run might have been the "quick, let's get rid of all the old stock" re-release and that when Ghost Protocol hits Blu-ray we might see a complete collection and remastered single releases. That would fit Paramount's strategy!

I'm fully expecting the same of the Star Trek franchise when Abram's next entry bows in 2013.

[LordCrumb]

Ah right, I was looking at the US release, December 6th

[MacEachaidh]

Yeah I was just going to mention the US release, m'Lord. There's a Tom Cruise boxed set coming out (without any of the M:I films), and an M:I boxed set.

But wouldn't the US one just be the same boxed set we recently got here? With DD5.1 audio on all three films?

[LordCrumb]

Well who knows.. remember Warner Bros and Lethal Weapon? we all assumed the Aus set would have been the same as the UK, but it wasn't.. Paramount might pull a similar trick.

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by LordCrumb

Paramount might pull a similar trick.

In this case, it would be good if they did!

(Unless the US set is absurdly expensive ...)

[timcat4843]

How anyone could buy the Mission Impossbile films on BD without lossless audio is beyond me.

[Cevolution]

Originally Posted by timcat4843

How anyone could buy the Mission Impossbile films on BD without lossless audio is beyond me.

Why you would bother coming into the Australian thread instead of the U.S one just to say that is beyond me! The lossy audio tracks on them are still superior to the DVD versions. When they get rereleased again in another year or 2 with lossless audio I'll just repurchase them. The mission impossible trilogy has almost been out since the beginning of blu-ray's existence, which is 5 years now, so by the time the mission impossible trilogy gets rerelease with lossless audio people who bought it years ago would have got 6-7+ years of enjoyment out of the current set before upgrading. If you like wasting 6-7 years not being able to watch these films on blu-ray due to not buying them out of protest then good luck too you!

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by Cevolution

The lossy audio tracks on them are still superior to the DVD versions.

Uhh, C, while I broadly agree with your post (though I think you're being a bit tough on the guy ), this bit confused me. Aren't they the same audio tracks that the DVDs had? Isn't that the point, why people are disappointed that these releases are in some ways just a repackaging of old transfers?

That said, I personally refuse to condone planned obsolescence in something like home media. If the format changes or new technology improvements come along, then fair enough that a release will become superseded and people should decide for themselves whether to upgrade. But for a release to use old technology on the basis that people can buy it all over again in a couple of years' time, this time with the tech specs it should have had the first time round, then I think objecting to that is reasonable.

[Cevolution]

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

Uhh, C, while I broadly agree with your post (though I think you're being a bit tough on the guy ), this bit confused me. Aren't they the same audio tracks that the DVDs had? Isn't that the point, why people are disappointed that these releases are in some ways just a repackaging of old transfers?

That said, I personally refuse to condone planned obsolescence in something like home media. If the format changes or new technology improvements come along, then fair enough that a release will become superseded and people should decide for themselves whether to upgrade. But for a release to use old technology on the basis that people can buy it all over again in a couple of years' time, this time with the tech specs it should have had the first time round, then I think objecting to that is reasonable.

I don't think I was being too harsh to him at all considering he pretty much come on here implying that anyone who has bought these movies on blu is an idiot, and didn't add anything of value or productive to the thread. From what I've read the audio bitrate of all 3 is superior to the dvd versions. I'll try and find some info about it and will supply a link for you later today if you want? To the best of my knowledge every single blu-ray that has a lossy track still is encoded with a higher superior audio bitrate compared with the dvd counterpart.

[Cevolution]

Originally Posted by X-Vision

I need to correct you there. I have purchased the first two today (in Belgium) and they seem to be new, not just repackaged.
First off, they are encoded in AVC as opposed to MPEG2. PQ looked okay to me. Still soft in some places for the first one. Did not watch it yet. Just zapped through it to check the quality. Oh and there's a 5.1 DTS HD MA track!

Did not buy the third one again though since that one I already bought some time ago... and quite happy with the PQ and AQ on that one.

According to this fella in the U.S Mission Impossible thread, the recent rereleases in Belgium have new AVC Mpeg4 transfers and DTS HD MA 5.1 lossless audio tracks.