I was watching the Picture-in-Picture commentary for Resident Evil - Extinction (the "Under the Umbrella" special feature), when I noticed something strange at the very beginning. The host's mouth is moving, but there's no sound for a few words. When you hear him, his sentence begins "... the first Resident Evil movie". The first few words of his sentence have been chopped off.
My player is a PS3 (60GB, 2.10 firmware).
BUT- when played back on that same PS3 using the ancient technology of composite video and stereo audio (yes, the old yellow, red, white plugs to the front of the TV), THEN the entire sentence is heard in the commentary. The host's sentence actually begins "When we made the first Resident Evil movie"
I tried this on two different PS3 systems - one using HDMI for video and audio through a Pioneer Elite receiver, the other using component video and fiber optic audio through a plain-old Pioneer receiver - with the exact same results. The HDMI and fiber optic audio both chop off "When we made", the first few words of the picture-in-picture commentary. The only way I can hear the beginning of the Blu-Ray profile 1.1 Picture-in-Picture commentary is to listen to it in plain stereo from the PS3's composite video/stereo output. How weird is that?!
Is this just an issue with PS3s? Do other players play back the entire PiP commentary?
I'm interested to know why the audio portion of the beginning of the PiP commentary is chopped off. It's like the HDMI audio and fiber audio needed extra time to get started and catch up to the video, but the simple red/white stereo plugs don't need that start-up time?
What's going on?
Thanks,
Bill
My player is a PS3 (60GB, 2.10 firmware).
BUT- when played back on that same PS3 using the ancient technology of composite video and stereo audio (yes, the old yellow, red, white plugs to the front of the TV), THEN the entire sentence is heard in the commentary. The host's sentence actually begins "When we made the first Resident Evil movie"
I tried this on two different PS3 systems - one using HDMI for video and audio through a Pioneer Elite receiver, the other using component video and fiber optic audio through a plain-old Pioneer receiver - with the exact same results. The HDMI and fiber optic audio both chop off "When we made", the first few words of the picture-in-picture commentary. The only way I can hear the beginning of the Blu-Ray profile 1.1 Picture-in-Picture commentary is to listen to it in plain stereo from the PS3's composite video/stereo output. How weird is that?!
Is this just an issue with PS3s? Do other players play back the entire PiP commentary?
I'm interested to know why the audio portion of the beginning of the PiP commentary is chopped off. It's like the HDMI audio and fiber audio needed extra time to get started and catch up to the video, but the simple red/white stereo plugs don't need that start-up time?
What's going on?
Thanks,
Bill