Movies with good sound effects?
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Ummm...
There's 6 movies with the words Star Wars in the title....
Pretty much sound effects throughout the entire thing.
There's 6 movies with the words Star Wars in the title....
Pretty much sound effects throughout the entire thing.
I have a somewhat "high end" 7.1 system and believe it or not one of the best movie mixes I have heard yet is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre REMAKE. Incredible use of the side and back channels.
Also I dont buy into the whole DTS ES is better than DDEX or 5.1. My processor can decode a 5.1 signal and send it through all seven channels and for the most part if the recording itself is well done then it will sound good. It all depends on how well placed the sound is as well as how "hot" the mix is. Remember louder isnt always better.
Oh and BTW any of the Pixar (Toy Story) and DreamWorks (Shrek) movies have EXCELLENT sound mixes.
Also I dont buy into the whole DTS ES is better than DDEX or 5.1. My processor can decode a 5.1 signal and send it through all seven channels and for the most part if the recording itself is well done then it will sound good. It all depends on how well placed the sound is as well as how "hot" the mix is. Remember louder isnt always better.
Oh and BTW any of the Pixar (Toy Story) and DreamWorks (Shrek) movies have EXCELLENT sound mixes.
thats actualy the first thing that came to mind but im sure it came to his too,lol.rocsorcs;1311991; said:Ummm...
There's 6 movies with the words Star Wars in the title....
Pretty much sound effects throughout the entire thing.
DTS ES is better than regular DD and quite bit better than DD EX as well. This isn't opinion it is fact that can be supported, so you don't have to "buy into it".
I totally believe you however when you say a movie recorded in 5.1 sound format sounds about as good to you as a movie recorded in 6.1 or 7.1.Your standard movie buff can hardly tell the difference,if at all, between a movie played in 7.1 and a movie played in 5.1.
Sure a receiver can recode a movie formatted in 5.1 to 6.1 or 7.1 and many will not be able to tell the difference.Heck a 5.1 receiver can take a 2.0 T.V. signal and recode it into 5.1,separating the background noise.But if you go rent the same movie it will sound better than when you watched it on HBO because its in true 5.1
On my Harmon and Kardon 7.1 I definitely notice the difference between a movie recorded in dolby surround (2.0) that my receiver is recoding into 7.1 and a movie recorded in Dolby Digital (5.1) being recoded into 7.1.The difference is mostly in clarity, esp that of the rear channels.
The difference between a movie in 5.1 being recoded into 7.1 and a movie already formatted in 7.1 is less but still noticeable.The difference between 6.1 and 7.1 is extremely hard to discern even for me however but still the facts remain that to the trained ear 7.1 would still sound better than 6.1,and thus DTS ES is indeed better than DD EX,even if it's only by single additional channel.
Also I will note that unless you have gone out and purchased a digital coaxial sound cable to run from your DVD player to your receiver it doesn't matter what format the movie was recorded in.Your only listening to 2.0 if all you have connecting your DVD to your receiver is the red and white L/R cables.
As mentioned,your receiver will still recode the movie into however many channels it's capable of supporting but it won't be the same, and you wont even have anything to compare it to to know what your missing unless you go get the cable.
This may be obvious for some but I used to work in a home entertainment business and cannot even go into the number of times I would see people with high end receivers that they weren't even really using because they didn't have the digital audio cable.
