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Xtravison rentals without surround sound

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  • 25-07-2005 12:18pm
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    xstatic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭


    I rented The Machinist from xtravision. Noticed there is only a 2 channel soundtrack and you get a load of crap trailers that you have to sit through at the start - well you can keep pressing the >>| button. But you can buy this same movie on websites and it has DD5.1 and DTS. I checked out the disk in my PC and it is a single layer. So I reckon to make the movie and trailers fit on a cheaper single layer disk they remove the surround track and reduce the bitrate which reduce picture quality. They are showing real contempt for the customer considering they charge 5.50 for 1 night.


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    IANOC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭IANOC


    yes this is a sad thing allright
    damn trailers who the f88k wants to see em

    damn good film so didnt notice the audio too much but would have been nice in DTS


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    GrumPy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,557 ✭✭✭GrumPy


    Thats retarded, how gay of them, you'd think they just buy rental licenced copies in, but they obviously get someone to copy the discs, and add all the trailers, €5.50 a night is terrible, 5.1 is after all, the best thing about movies! :(


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    Necronomicon
    Registered Users Posts: 11,589 ✭✭✭✭Necronomicon


    xstatic wrote:
    I rented The Machinist from xtravision. Noticed there is only a 2 channel soundtrack and you get a load of crap trailers that you have to sit through at the start - well you can keep pressing the >>| button. But you can buy this same movie on websites and it has DD5.1 and DTS. I checked out the disk in my PC and it is a single layer. So I reckon to make the movie and trailers fit on a cheaper single layer disk they remove the surround track and reduce the bitrate which reduce picture quality. They are showing real contempt for the customer considering they charge 5.50 for 1 night.
    Same here, when they had it exclusively I rented it as well and the sound was shocking, we were trying to sort it out for ages.


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