If you're not familiar with Robert Harris, he's an industry insider who has worked on many film restorations remasters for DVD and now blu-ray. In my opinion, the on-line world is very lucky to have his "A Few Words About" column available on the internet.
Here is his column on Saving Private Ryan...
With Paramount's Sapphire Series getting off to a bit of a rocky start with digital cleansing problems in Gladiator, which may have been caused by Universal elements, it's nice to see quality back with their release of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.
I've a feeling that anything with Mr. Spielberg's name attached to it is going to go through a bit more serious QC path than some other productions, and if that's the case it shows here.
I screened the new Blu-ray last night for a friend, and he made an interesting comment. With the overall dynamism, layers of audio and pure volume, dialogue during the opening landing, as well as all other sequences that play high on the db scale, is all clear.
While I would believe that some of this is due to the decoding of one's receiver, speaker setup, etc., the audio must clearly be there in the uncompressed tracks before it can be delivered into one's home theater environment.
The audio on this disc, full, rich, loud and always crisp and clean is a testament to not only the sound effects, dialogue recording and mixing work performed on this huge production, but also of the fact that the DTS-HD Master Audio system delivers what it promises.
Image is perfect, with rich blacks, accurate color and densities.
Saving Private Ryan is a great, and important film, and has been delivered with perfection via Paramount on the Blu-ray format. As the winner of five Academy Awards inclusive of Best Director, (Shakespeare in Love took Best Picture), it deserves a place in any serious Blu-ray collection. As an aside, SPR also won Best Editing, Sound and Sound Effects Editing, so what you're hearing should come as no surprise. Anyone serious about cinema should stop for a moment and imagine what was entailed in creating these tracks. The job must have been immense.
A perfect Blu-ray.
Highly Recommended.
RAH
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/300012/a-few-words-about-saving-private-ryan-in-blu-ray
Here is his column on Saving Private Ryan...
With Paramount's Sapphire Series getting off to a bit of a rocky start with digital cleansing problems in Gladiator, which may have been caused by Universal elements, it's nice to see quality back with their release of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.
I've a feeling that anything with Mr. Spielberg's name attached to it is going to go through a bit more serious QC path than some other productions, and if that's the case it shows here.
I screened the new Blu-ray last night for a friend, and he made an interesting comment. With the overall dynamism, layers of audio and pure volume, dialogue during the opening landing, as well as all other sequences that play high on the db scale, is all clear.
While I would believe that some of this is due to the decoding of one's receiver, speaker setup, etc., the audio must clearly be there in the uncompressed tracks before it can be delivered into one's home theater environment.
The audio on this disc, full, rich, loud and always crisp and clean is a testament to not only the sound effects, dialogue recording and mixing work performed on this huge production, but also of the fact that the DTS-HD Master Audio system delivers what it promises.
Image is perfect, with rich blacks, accurate color and densities.
Saving Private Ryan is a great, and important film, and has been delivered with perfection via Paramount on the Blu-ray format. As the winner of five Academy Awards inclusive of Best Director, (Shakespeare in Love took Best Picture), it deserves a place in any serious Blu-ray collection. As an aside, SPR also won Best Editing, Sound and Sound Effects Editing, so what you're hearing should come as no surprise. Anyone serious about cinema should stop for a moment and imagine what was entailed in creating these tracks. The job must have been immense.
A perfect Blu-ray.
Highly Recommended.
RAH
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/300012/a-few-words-about-saving-private-ryan-in-blu-ray
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