Saturday Night Fever has finally been announced. Will Paramount do the right thing on this title and offer lossless audio or will they choose to lose sales?

I wish but somehow I doubt it. Although WB came through with it for Purple Rain.

Yay, disco in lossless would be sweet!
Burn, baby burn...Disco Inferno!
:D

Do you ever wonder if the master's for these old films aren't very good. The quality is not good enough where it would benefit from a lossless track, and just sound like DD 640k? I don't know if they were thinking about lossless audio when they were filming a movie in the 70's.

It has probably been re-mastered many times since then, but if not. Why not give us the choise to deside if we want to lissten to the DD 5.1 or the lossless.
Since it is paramount we should just be happy that we get any sound at all.

Do you ever wonder if the master's for these old films aren't very good. The quality is not good enough where it would benefit from a lossless track, and just sound like DD 640k? I don't know if they were thinking about lossless audio when they were filming a movie in the 70's.

I absolutely disagree. That is like saying all music released prior to the invention of lossless codecs cannot benefit from lossless audio. Audio on catalog titles can benefit from lossless audio just as video on catalog titles can benefit from 1080p. Throwing away parts of the original master tape's audio, which CD and Dolby Digital both do, certainly has a negative effect on the sound quality. Saying that it is only beneficial for recent films or music is short-sighted.

Paramount and lossless?!?!? Are you mad? Has hell frozen over? HA, wont never happen!

Saturday Night Fever spawned a soundtrack that is one of the best-selling albums of all time. I believe the Recording Industry Association of America has it ranked as 21st best-selling album of all time.

If this film doesn't deserve lossless audio then no films do.

Well that seems to be Paramounts philosophy (sp) when it comes to Blu-Ray...

Well that seems to be Paramounts philosophy (sp) when it comes to Blu-Ray...

It's time for Paramount to change that trend. Video is half of the high-def promise, they need to deliver the audio as well.

Oh believe me, I know this!

Paramounts support of lossless formats on either format has been completely abysmal. Very disappointing as I like many of Paramounts offerings.

A Paramount insider on DVDTalk's forum indicated that master quality audio tracks will be common for Paramount's future releases. The Top Gun BD release, for instance, will apparently have a PCM track.

Do you ever wonder if the master's for these old films aren't very good. The quality is not good enough where it would benefit from a lossless track, and just sound like DD 640k? I don't know if they were thinking about lossless audio when they were filming a movie in the 70's.

Even old films from the 40's sound better on Laserdisc with PCM than they ever did on DVD.

A Paramount insider on DVDTalk's forum indicated that master quality audio tracks will be common for Paramount's future releases. The Top Gun BD release, for instance, will apparently have a PCM track.Well, that is welcome news. I hope you are right, but I'll reserve judgement until I see it. I am actually just glad to see Paramount releasing again.

Well, that is welcome news. I hope you are right, but I'll reserve judgement until I see it. I am actually just glad to see Paramount releasing again.

Ditto! :)

A Paramount insider on DVDTalk's forum indicated that master quality audio tracks will be common for Paramount's future releases. The Top Gun BD release, for instance, will apparently have a PCM track.

That is excellent news if it turns out to be true.

That is excellent news if it turns out to be true.
Well, this person has never been wrong before and he seems to be closely involved with Paramount's BD and HD DVD projects. For instance, he let people know that Dreamgirls would be a 2-disc release well before it was officially announced. Furthermore, he disclosed that The Warriors would be released on BD and HD DVD a good five months before that was announced by anyone else. There is no reason to doubt him in any way.

I don't have high hopes for the picture - it's very low budget, grainy as hell. The last two presentations in HD (720p ABC, HBO 1080i), again...very dated.

Amazing film though...wish they'd cut the TV edits into the main film - the extra footage rounded out the story.

Well, this person has never been wrong before and he seems to be closely involved with Paramount's BD and HD DVD projects. There is no reason to doubt him in any way.

That's good enough for me. Thanks.

I don't have high hopes for the picture - it's very low budget, grainy as hell.

Amazing film though...wish they'd cut the TV edits into the main film - the extra footage rounded out the story.

I hope it looks better than you've seen previously.

I cannot bring myself to watch movies on TV. I can't stand getting into movies and then being interrupted with commercials over and over. In fact commercials have me pretty much avoiding television completely.

This is an excellent film though and I hope they do what they can to make it look and sound great.

I don't have high hopes for the picture - it's very low budget, grainy as hell. The last two presentations in HD (720p ABC, HBO 1080i), again...very dated.

Amazing film though...wish they'd cut the TV edits into the main film - the extra footage rounded out the story.

When my friends and I went to see it (in college) when it first came out (opening day, I think, with no hype whatsoever), their were several scenes (outside with the brother early in the movie was one) where the boom microphone was VERY obvious in the frame. It was hysterical. They even tried to hide it with some kind of fake bird attached!!! The whole thing seemed like a low-low-low budget piece of junk. We laughed through the whole thing and figured no one would remember it by the next week.

Next time I saw it, everything had been carefully cropped and it seemed like even new filmed angles inserted to remove the boom mikes.

I'd love to see the original print again. At least that was funny...