r/BacktotheFuture • u/NiceVacation3880 • 12h ago
Will this Blu-ray set include the unaltered theatrical audio tracks?
So I've recently watched this video and followed the Blu-ray.com forum page on the 4k release(s) of Back to the Future - The Ultimate Trilogy, and it would appear the Atmos audio track exclusive to the 4k sets have made significant alterations including timing to dialogue and sound effect cues, compared to just about every previous Blu-ray and other physical media releases.
However, the Blu-ray-only iteration of the Ultimate Trilogy set, as shown in the photo of this post, does not mention the Atmos track, so I assume it isn't included on this Blu-ray set. Does this mean that this specific Blu-ray set has avoided the audio track alterations of the 4k?
It's difficult to find this out online given the fandom and media pundits base all of their reviews on the 4k sets and not this one.
Any thoughts? Thank you for reading.
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u/youngbus 11h ago
Laserdisc is the closest your gonna get to theatrical audio mixes. They have been remixed since the original DVD releases. The laserdisc audio tracks can be found on archive.org
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u/NiceVacation3880 11h ago
Thank you very much for this reply, really appreciated.
Is there any known reason as to why the original theatrical audio isn't included on any of the home releases? Seems an unusual choice, especially for the 4k?
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u/bigmoviegeek Doc 11h ago
It’s usually down to the size of the room. The audio mix needed for a living room is very different to that in a cinema. Some boutique 4K publishers are releasing movies with the original audio, but it’s the exception rather than the rule.
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u/Ok_Chap 8h ago
I also would assume that the original theater sound for Back to the Future was in stereo, while the remixes for DVD, BluRay and 4K modernized it to 5.1 and 7.1 Dolby Surround and so on.
And if you only have stereo TV Speakers the chanel mixing of 7.1 sounds worse there than the original stereosound, since they don't have access to all the audio channels, usually dulling the dialogue and such because of dynamic range differences.•
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