Mistar Muffin
Oct 2002
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quote: Originally posted by vip3r
Stick with the VideoCD 3 disc release/TELECINE (if you have them, if not grab this) - but otherwise i wouldn't waste the time and bandwith. As this release doesn't even have 5.1 and isn't the greatest.
8/8/9
Well, as I just got my hands on this release tonight I can verify that it has a 384kbps DD5.1 AC3 soundtrack. Everyone saying that it is 2channels obviously hasn't taken one look at the release but are rather going by the obvious typo in the nfo. XPD is primarily a SVCD group and left the wrong bitrate in their nfo (224kbps, standard for SVCD). Pic looks pretty good, much better than the VideoCD release (God, how I hate motion blur, that drove me nuts in their release). Overall I say this is the release to get if you have a DVD burner, as I'm a fan of having the whole movie on 1 disc, and the DD5.1 audio is a nice bonus ^_^.
8/9/9
Edit:
After getting home and watching the movie on my 5.1 setup, I must agree with the previous poster who mentioned that the voices come out of all the speakers. It IS a 384kbps DD5.1 track like I previously stated....alas....it appears as if XPD took a stereo source and duplicated the channels to make it 5.1 *tsk tsk*. Oh well.
Edit, again:
Out of pure curiosity, I downloaded Cartel's xvid encode of VideoCD's TS source, which supposed had a 5.1 AC3 track, and let me tell you, the difference is amazing. The AC3 on the xvid encode is worlds cripser and much more dynamic (none of that fluttering in the opening credits and no audio dropouts). If you want the best quality possible, you can do what I did, and thats combine the AC3's from the two Cartel cds and then remux them into the vobs from this release. It sounds absolutely wonderful. Please note that the VideoCD TS didn't begin til the Spider-Man 2 logo and this TC starts at the very beginning and has the Columbia Pictures logo and everything, meaning after you do the remux youre gonna have about 45 seconds of silence until the logo, where the Cartel audio will kick in. Good luck!
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