Best Surround Sound Remixing of Classic Movies

[ProjectB]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Digital *recording* or digital *exhibition*? They're not the same thing. Fantasia was re-recorded in 1982 via digital means. The first film exhibited with digital sound was Batman Returns in 1992 via the Dolby Digital system.

Im talking about films before the era of digital exhibition 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, and now Dolby Atmos/DTS-X

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by ProjectB

Im talking about films before the era of digital exhibition 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, and now Dolby Atmos/DTS-X

So films before the summer of 1992. Gotcha.

I guess we could start a list. I'll start with TRON.

[ZoetMB]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

So films before the summer of 1992. Gotcha.

I guess we could start a list. I'll start with TRON.

TRON wasn't a remix (although it had to be remixed a bit for DVD and Blu as all 70mm films do because 70mm films have five front channels and a mono surround channel). TRON was originally released in 70mm and released in both Dolby 6-track mag (Baby Boom) and 6-track mag discrete (the Todd-AO format) in 6 theaters. i saw it at the Loews State 2 in New York City in 6-track discrete and the sound was spectacular. In that era, directors were afraid of using surround for anything important because the quality of surround in the theaters was so variable (or nonexistent), but TRON had tons of very audible surround effects.

Another film in that era that sounded spectacular was Altered States (12/1980). Altered States was presented in 70mm and in some of those theaters, like the Village Theater in Westwood, Los Angeles and at the Loews Astor Plaza in NYC in Megasound, which was a mini-version of the Sensurround system used for Earthquake. At the Village Theater, Cerwin-Vega L36PE speakers were used for the subwoofer effects. I forget what was used at the Astor Plaza. That was also spectacular sound for the era. It sounds nothing like the original on Blu.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

TRON wasn't a remix (although it had to be remixed a bit for DVD and Blu as all 70mm films do because 70mm films have five front channels and a mono surround channel). TRON was originally released in 70mm and released in both Dolby 6-track mag (Baby Boom) and 6-track mag discrete (the Todd-AO format) in 6 theaters. i saw it at the Loews State 2 in New York City in 6-track discrete and the sound was spectacular. In that era, directors were afraid of using surround for anything important because the quality of surround in the theaters was so variable (or nonexistent), but TRON had tons of very audible surround effects.

Another film in that era that sounded spectacular was Altered States (12/1980). Altered States was presented in 70mm and in some of those theaters, like the Village Theater in Westwood, Los Angeles and at the Loews Astor Plaza in NYC in Megasound, which was a mini-version of the Sensurround system used for Earthquake. At the Village Theater, Cerwin-Vega L36PE speakers were used for the subwoofer effects. I forget what was used at the Astor Plaza. That was also spectacular sound for the era. It sounds nothing like the original on Blu.

I gotcha.