Posted by docdude316 on 01/11/84 11:36

Joshua Zyber wrote:
> <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).

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.

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