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Posted by Joshua Zyber on 10/04/50 11:36
<hopdrop@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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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/forums/viewtopic.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.
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