Paramount DTS policy

What is Paramount's policy on releasing DVD's with DTS? I want to
purchase a DTS version of Sky Captain and the World of Tommorrow,
however, in the US one is not available. The US version description
can be found here http://tinyurl.com/a8y4c . The Region 3 version has
DTS and there is a great review of it I found here:
http://www.therewindforums.co.uk/for...ic.php?t=11857

Do movie companies hold back on some of the features such as DTS or
extended versions of a movie so consumers may buy the first release and
a future release that may have the features they want? Why isn't a DTS
track included on some DVD's such as Troy and Sky Captain?

Brian

hopdrop@hotmail.com

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> What is Paramount's policy on releasing DVD's with DTS? I want to
> purchase a DTS version of Sky Captain and the World of Tommorrow,
> however, in the US one is not available. The US version description
> can be found here http://tinyurl.com/a8y4c . The Region 3 version
> has
> DTS and there is a great review of it I found here:
> http://www.therewindforums.co.uk/for...ic.php?t=11857
>
> Do movie companies hold back on some of the features such as DTS or
> extended versions of a movie so consumers may buy the first release
> and
> a future release that may have the features they want? Why isn't a
> DTS
> track included on some DVD's such as Troy and Sky Captain?

Paramount is not a studio that often engages in gratuitous
"double-dipping". They've only re-released a handful of titles, and
generally only in cases where the old DVD was in need of substantial
improvement (Jack Ryan trilogy, Top Gun, a few others).

They aren't completely opposed to DTS, but (like Warner Bros.) don't
feel that it usually affects sales significantly to justify the
licensing fees and amount of disc space it uses up. The reason Sky
Captain has a DTS track in Region 3 is that the movie is distributed by
a different studio in that territory (Intercontinental Video), and in
Asia DTS is a hot selling point used to persuade consumers to buy the
official studio release rather than the cheap and plentiful bootlegs
available on every street corner and convenience store.

Other studios, especially 20th Century Fox, are greedier and
relentlessly pursue the "double-dip" strategy for exactly the reason you
cite, which is to con people into buying the same movie a few months
after they already bought the first release. But in general Paramount
isn't like that. They have other issues, just not that one.

Joshua Zyber

Joshua Zyber wrote:
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>
>>What is Paramount's policy on releasing DVD's with DTS? I want to
>>purchase a DTS version of Sky Captain and the World of Tommorrow,
>>however, in the US one is not available. The US version description
>>can be found here http://tinyurl.com/a8y4c . The Region 3 version
>>has
>>DTS and there is a great review of it I found here:
>>http://www.therewindforums.co.uk/for...ic.php?t=11857
>>
>>Do movie companies hold back on some of the features such as DTS or
>>extended versions of a movie so consumers may buy the first release
>>and
>>a future release that may have the features they want? Why isn't a
>>DTS
>>track included on some DVD's such as Troy and Sky Captain?
>
>
> Paramount is not a studio that often engages in gratuitous
> "double-dipping". They've only re-released a handful of titles, and
> generally only in cases where the old DVD was in need of substantial
> improvement (Jack Ryan trilogy, Top Gun, a few others).

I don't buy a lot of movies from Paramount but the ones that I do are
usually from a certain franchise involving space travel and a ship named
Enterprise. Paramount is horrible about double dippng aything with the
Trek name attached.

docdude316

"docdude316" <> wrote in message
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>> Paramount is not a studio that often engages in gratuitous
>> "double-dipping". They've only re-released a handful of titles, and
>> generally only in cases where the old DVD was in need of substantial
>> improvement (Jack Ryan trilogy, Top Gun, a few others).
>
> I don't buy a lot of movies from Paramount but the ones that I do are
> usually from a certain franchise involving space travel and a ship
> named Enterprise. Paramount is horrible about double dippng aything
> with the Trek name attached.

OK, it's true, they shamelessly exploit the Trek franchise. I'll give
you that.

Joshua Zyber

Paramount is also horrible about charging $100 for season sets of
everything with "Trek" on it. I'm too used to paying $40 or $50 so I
own nothing but the original series (because I figure that something
shot in the 60's will never look any better than it does now on DVD.)

-beaumon

lorincantrell@yahoo.com

Thank you. That is a great answer.

hopdrop@hotmail.com

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> Paramount is also horrible about charging $100 for season sets of
> everything with "Trek" on it. I'm too used to paying $40 or $50 so I
> own nothing but the original series (because I figure that something
> shot in the 60's will never look any better than it does now on DVD.)

Not true. The original series was shot and fully post-produced on film,
which is why it could be remastered from the original film elements for
DVD and can be re-released at an even higher resolution on HD. The later
series, unfortunately, were shot on film but post-produced (including
all visual effects) on video, and are forever limited to
standard-definition resolution.

Joshua Zyber

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:37:49 GMT, Joshua Zyber wrote:

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>> Paramount is also horrible about charging $100 for season sets of
>> everything with "Trek" on it. I'm too used to paying $40 or $50 so I
>> own nothing but the original series (because I figure that something
>> shot in the 60's will never look any better than it does now on DVD.)
>
> Not true. The original series was shot and fully post-produced on film,
> which is why it could be remastered from the original film elements for
> DVD and can be re-released at an even higher resolution on HD. The later
> series, unfortunately, were shot on film but post-produced (including
> all visual effects) on video, and are forever limited to
> standard-definition resolution.

I wouldn't say "forever," since Paramount could (theoretically) go back to
the original film elements are re-do all the post production in
High-Definition. That's not very likely though, at least not currently.

-Jay

Jay G.

"Jay G." <"Jay "@tmbg.org> wrote in message
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>> Not true. The original series was shot and fully post-produced on
>> film,
>> which is why it could be remastered from the original film elements
>> for
>> DVD and can be re-released at an even higher resolution on HD. The
>> later
>> series, unfortunately, were shot on film but post-produced (including
>> all visual effects) on video, and are forever limited to
>> standard-definition resolution.
>
> I wouldn't say "forever," since Paramount could (theoretically) go
> back to
> the original film elements are re-do all the post production in
> High-Definition. That's not very likely though, at least not
> currently.

I suppose with the way that Paramount loves to milk the franchise that
anything is possible, but that is very unlikely to ever happen.

That's the same pipe dream that Babylon 5 fans have been holding out
for.

Joshua Zyber