Akira is 192khz, why not other movies?

[peteness]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Because anything made after the late 80s was created digitally, and they're stuck at whatever res it was mastered at (48Khz/16-bit typically)

192Khz audio, even with THD takes up a GIGANTIC amount of space. Literally they use the entire audio space on Blu-ray on that disc.

The returns aren't usually worth it, basically a small amount of stuff made in the 80s with analog masters is the only material with enough fidelity to benefit from it. This was really a pet project by Mr. Yamashiro. Hopefully others will be inspired by it for other films, but I doubt you'll see people going over 48/24 very often.

hey Jeff and everyone- my name is pete and i just joined. I was wondering if anyone could help me or point me in the right direction towards a copy of the included Tsutomu Ōhashi essay included the akira blu ray release. Its just that I am writing my thesis on unconscious and subliminal sound perception and have written quite a bit on the hypersonic effect and hfc's etc. and would love to include a section on the modern applications of hfcs in soundtracks- i.e. akira. Also the film is aawesome! so thats a huge bonus when writing a thesis! hope someone can help- cheers and thank you- pete