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plasma display that honors for Best Sound Editing In Feature consumers use. Film—Effects and Foley, and Best Sound We missed by a Editing In Feature Film—Dialogue and ADR. few days the opportu- Supervising sound editors nity to review Artisan (Academy Award winner) and Karen Baker www.htcruise.com Entertainment’s led teams of winning sound editors for both Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and other titles categories. The winner for Best Sound from 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks. Editing in Animated Feature Film went to The titles were in the final process of quality Atlantis: The Lost Empire, with Academy control and the studios would not release Award-winner and Michael them to us. But, come next Issue 61, June, Silvers as supervising sound editors, HD D-VHS® D-Theater™ we hope to be able to publish a number of amongst their winning sound editing team. Platform Featured reviews on the first slate of D-Theater movie The Academy Award winner for Best titles, and as well offer all D-Theater titles to Sound went to Black Hawk Down, with re- In this issue, we continue our Exclusive be released on two of our Web sites, recording mixers and Myron Report on the new JVC D-VHS® D-Theater™ www.WidescreenReview.com and Nettinga, and production mixer . HD prerecorded high-profile movie release DVHSMovieGuide.com. platform. While I appreciate that our status DTS®—Expanding For as a premiere home theatre and movie Sound Achievements Your Aural Pleasure review publication enables us to preview Honored new technologies before the general public, David J. Weinberg, Contributing Editor I am so excited with the high-performance Perry Sun, Managing Editor this platform delivers, that I can’t wait until Multichannel audio is clearly expanding our readers are able to see and experience Every year, two awards ceremonies are in two directions—higher-resolution formats for themselves the quantum leap in picture held, prior to the ®, to (DVD-Audio and SACD) and mobile surround quality delivered by D-VHS D-Theater prere- honor the outstanding creative efforts of systems. DTS® has taken major strides into corded 1080i content at an incredible 28.2 members of the sound community for motion these two arenas. megabits per second (Mbps) data rate. pictures produced during the previous year. We compare a digital D-5 format studio One of them is the C.A.S. (Cinema Audio DTS DVD-Audio Discs master of Universal Studios’ U-571 to the D- Society) awards for achievements in sound VHS D-Theater release version. While the D- mixing for film and television features. At the DTS Entertainment (www.dtsentertainment. 5 data rate is 375 Mbps compared to the 38th annual event, the honoree for com) is the source of almost 120 DTS- 28.2 Mbps data rate of the D-VHS format, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing encoded 5.1-channel music discs covering the differences in picture are virtually unde- for a Motion Picture was Lord Of The Rings: the major music types from classical and tectable. The consensus of the industry The Fellowship Of The Ring, with rerecording rock through jazz and country. They have insiders gathered for this event at the WSR mixers , , now extended their musical offerings into Reference Holosonic™ Home Theatre and , and as DVD-Audio. DTS Entertainment has already Laboratory was that the small differences we production mixer. Christopher Boyes recently produced 18 DVD-Audio Discs (only a few could see could not have been seen on any won his second Oscar® for Best Sound of which contain music already available on direct-view CRT, rear-screen, DLP, D-ILA, or Editing for Pearl Harbor (along with George DTS-encoded discs based on the CD format), Watters II). with another 20 titles nearing release. The other award event All DVD-Audio discs from DTS Entertain- for motion picture sound ment include four versions of the material: is the Golden Reel 1. A 5.1-channel mix, compressed with Awards, held by the MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) to get more Motion Picture Sound content on the disc in DVD-Audio format. Editors (MPSE). The 2. A separate two-channel mix of the event honors outstanding same tracks, authored in DVD-Audio format. achievements in sound 3. The same 5.1-channel mix as above, editing in the areas of DTS-encoded for the DVD-Video portion of feature film, television, the disc, playable on DVD-Video players computer entertainment, that recognize a DTS soundtrack (all but special venue, and stu- some early first-generation players) digitally dent film. Among the feeding DTS decoders. many winners at the 49th 4. The original two-channel mix, in PCM or annual ceremony, Black Dolby® Digital, playable on all DVD-Video Gary Rydstrom Michael Semanick And Christopher Boyes Hawk Down received the players.

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