Xtravison rentals without surround sound

xstatic · 25-07-2005 12:18pm #1

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.

IANOC · 25-07-2005 12:23pm

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

GrumPy · 25-07-2005 12:23pm

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!

Necronomicon · 25-07-2005 12:38pm

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.

Xtravison rentals without surround sound

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