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This October, Universal Studios Home Entertainment will bring one of the most popular film series of all time to Blu-ray: the Jurassic Park Trilogy. Based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel, director Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park created a world where science brought the dinosaurs back to life, a world further explored in its popular sequels The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III.

Universal presents the Jurassic Park Trilogy remastered for 1080p, with all films shown in their original aspect ratios of 1.85:1 and given DTS-HD Master Audio tracks. In terms of special features, the Blu-ray collection will feature all supplements from the previous DVD editions, including (but not limited to):
The Making of Jurassic Park featurette
The Making of The Lost World: Jurassic Park featurette
The Making of Jurassic Park III featurette
Steven Spielberg Directs Jurassic Park featurette
Early Pre-Production Meetings
The World of Jurassic Park featurette
The Magic of Industrial Light & Magic featurette
Location Scouting
Phil Tippett Animatics: Raptors In The Kitchen featurette
The Jurassic Park Phenomenon: A Discussion with Author Michael Crichton featurette
Industrial Light & Magic and Jurassic Park: Before and After The Visual Effects featurette
Industrial Light & Magic and The Lost World: Jurassic Park Before & After featurette
The Industrial Light & Magic Press Reel
A Visit to Industrial Light & Magic featurette
Hurricane in Kauai featurette
Dinosaur Turntables featurette
The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park III featurette
Montana: Finding New Dinosaurs featurette
Animatics: T-Rex Attack featurette
The Special Effects of Jurassic Park III featurette
The Sounds of Jurassic Park III featurette
The Art of Jurassic Park III featurette
Tour of Stan Winston Studio featurette
Feature Commentary on Jurassic Park III with Special Effects Team
Production Archives: Storyboards, Models, Photographs, Design Sketches, and Conceptual Drawings
Deleted Scenes
Theatrical Trailers
Furthermore, the Jurassic Park Trilogy has digital copies of the three films and over two hours of bonus materials newly produced for Blu-ray; the new material takes the form of a six-part retrospective documentary titled Return to Jurassic Park. This documentary - made up of the Dawn of a New Era, Making Pre-history, The Next Step in Evolution, Finding The Lost World, Something Survived, and The Third Adventure behind-the-scenes segments - features never-before-seen interviews with the cast and crew of the three films, including Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg.

Exclusive to Blu-ray will be Universal's BD-Live, My Scenes, pocket BLU, Advanced Remote Control, Video Timeline, Mobile-To-Go, Browse Titles, and Keyboard interactive functionality components.

As previously reported, Universal will also offer the Jurassic Park Trilogy in a special "Limited Edition" Blu-ray gift set; check back later for further information on that version of the trilogy.

The Jurassic Park Trilogy streets on October 25th, 2011.

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quote: Aaron Garman

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I just hope we get the original DTS digital experience trailer, but I'm not holding my breath.

AJG

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quote: Tom Petrov

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Is the discs going to be THX certified?

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quote: Joe Redifer

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Just give me the damn movie.

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Aaron.-I wouldn't bother getting the BR.

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Why? It's my favorite film of all time, there are plenty of extras, and I'm sure the 1080p video won't be worse than the VHS, LaserDiscs, and DVDs I already own. I'm very very curious about the audio. If it really makes me mad, maybe I'll learn how to "repurpose" the video with LaserDisc audio.

AJG
 

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Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 06-27-2011, 08:35 PM:
 
I am with Aaron and very partial to all three JURASSIC PARK films. The first one is the best of them all but the other two are just as enjoyable. I had the DTS laserdisc but still have the full bit rate DTS DVD and the sound is just as good as the LD in my opinion. I am looking forward to finally having the opportunity to add the Jurassic Park films on Blu Ray to my collection after waiting for them since I started collecting the high definition discs. Tom seem to be the only one with a obsession with laserdiscs but in my opinion, Blu Ray rules! Everything that was great about the laserdisc will be there on the Blu-Ray including the awesome sound. This time, the BD's will feature 7.1 DTS HD Master Audio tracks and I envy everyone here who has the necessary hardware in their home theatre system to enjoy movies with that kind of sound mix.

-Claude
 

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Posted by Tom Petrov (Member # 1534) on 06-27-2011, 09:23 PM:
 
Hey Victor-I am against most re-releases in blu-ray. I was not impressed with one of the Star Treks, and The Running Man was horrible. Terminator II was pretty good and I hear that was from the Japanese HD Laserdisc Mule I think it was called.

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LD discs are cool but picture quality is very wanting compared to Blu-Ray

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I'm very very curious about the audio.

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quote: Aaron Garman

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THX on a Blu-ray? The only one I've ever seen is Avatar.

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Like all other full bit Universal DTS DVDs, JURASSIC PARK only features 5.1 track indicating I am correct when I say it is full bit rate.

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I just hope we get the original DTS digital experience trailer, but I'm not holding my breath.

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LASERDISCS!!!!!1!11

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I have the LD. I want it in HD with better sound.

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Claude, the DVD must of had a DD track. From my source, it claims 768kbps

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I have no problem with 7.1 tracks although the original was in 5.1, Aaron. It will still sound awesome.

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Wonderful things can be done when a movie track is remixed for home video from existing original sound elements such as DIRTY HARRY which was released in mono but now features a fantastic 5.1 stereo track on Blu-Ray and DVD.

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Yeah I can't imagine anyone not buying it because it isn't 7.1. I'd certainly buy it as 5.1. I also agree that the GCI has held up very well. They took their time doing that one. Current CGI looks too soft and fuzzy to me.

That said, Nightmare before Christmas made it to 7.1 with spectacular results.

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Even 'Fantasia 2000' sounded mighty impressive in 7.1

technically, Universal should do what Disney/Pixar did with 'Toy Story 3' in that the bluray edition has both the 7.1 AND the 5.1 soundmix on the same disc.

I'm hoping the extra surrounds are in the 90% (side) position and not flush with the left surround/right surround channels.
 

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Posted by Tom Petrov (Member # 1534) on 08-31-2011, 04:39 PM:
 
Aaron - Are you still hyped about this?
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 10-25-2011, 12:34 AM:
 
Well I've got it and running it now. Early observations:

-No DTS trailer. As if there was going to be one though.
-Image is pretty grainy but the best I've seen it at home.
-The re-mix is very very evident. It doesn't sound bad per se, but really different so far. They seem to have added echo to voice in certain spaces, like the visitor center lobby, and changed levels dramatically. Certain lines of dialogue are now louder than what I've heard, as well as many surround effects. Perhaps the surrounds being louder is a result of me watching at 7.1 mix in 5.1.

This raises an issue: this movie isn't THAT old. Why the hell can't they include the original sound mix? I'd imagine the master is still in existence. I blame the craze to add more channels of sound to the home theatre as causing this debacle. If 5.1 was all there was, we'd have gotten the original mix, perfect in lossless.

I'm kind of grumpy, but not surprised that this has happened.

Looks like my DTS LaserDisc is still relevant.

AJG
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-25-2011, 03:12 AM:
 
How are the subwoofer levels?
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-25-2011, 04:29 AM:
 

quote: Aaron Garman

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Looks like my DTS LaserDisc is still relevant.

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If they haven't changed the vision or audio framerates in any way, you could introduce the laserdisc sound to the vision of the Blu.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-25-2011, 05:45 PM:
 
Wow, the packaging sure sucks. Blu-rays are now just as bad as DVDs in this regard. They have perfectly sturdy boxes that already exist yet they choose this cardboard crap. Or worse, the steelbook nonsense that's over an inch taller than the rest of your Blu-rays. There is no decent packaging option. At least with the Star Wars movies, there was. I don't care if the Super Deluxe Ultra Special Champion Edition comes in a box shaped like a dinosaur head and includes a fossilized dino turd for the really idiotic collectors to buy, but give us plebes normal plastic boxes, please. Damn Hollywood hippies, the world has no use for you. Also, cardboard kills more trees (which is the only GOOD thing about these boxes, because I hate trees).
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 10-25-2011, 10:06 PM:
 
The subwoofer levels were good. Different again, but good. Anyone know how to get a set of the 6-track CD-ROMS to do a TRUE comparison?

AJG
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 10-26-2011, 03:21 PM:
 
Call Steven. I'm sure he's got a set you could borrow.

Considering how frequently repertory theatres are being told to "just run the Bluray" it is very important to retain the original mix. Even if it was mono (like the original Terminator).

Especially since the format allows for multiple track versions. Why not release with both the original and the remix?

Space issues, you say?

Who really needs the French dub anyway???

As for the effects, I've often said that CGI peaked with JP.
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 10-26-2011, 03:54 PM:
 
Those foreign tracks are at 768kb/s too.

Silly Universal.

AJG
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-26-2011, 04:49 PM:
 
Anyone else notice that you are made to sit through a Universal logo THREE TIMES? Is this really necessary? Their logo sucks, too. It's loud as shit and has some really crappy music. At least the third time was silent. Fuck, you, Universal. Fuck you all to hell. How the hell do I contact them about this bullshit?

Also, was Jurassic Park 3 a direct-to-DVD movie? Or did it somehow actually get a theatrical release?
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 10-26-2011, 05:31 PM:
 
I dig the Universal logo, but it had NO place in front of this movie the way it was. The 1993 logo was tasteful and welcomed.

A release like this really makes me wonder who is in charge of such things. These lackeys in their marketing department have no sense of taste or class or even historical perspective when presenting a classic film such as this. Sure, they probably want to have their product "branded" but to run two Universal tags in a row really ruins the mood of the film that is coming up and makes the whole company look like an idiot.

They should have thrown the DTS Digital Experience trailer in front of it to make this release ten times better.

I'm still peeved enough at the lack of the original mix, I'd like to learn how to make my own custom disc with the original mix. Something tells me I couldn't do it with a MacBook Air though.

EDIT:

As to not have two posts in a row, here is the letter I sent to Universal Home Entertainment.

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Dear Universal,

I want to thank you very much for releasing Jurassic Park on Blu-ray. I was about 11 when it was released and it had a huge impact on me going forward. The magic of this movie inspired my love for films and I definitely consider it my favorite film, ever. To see it in high definition and have a nice assortment of extras is a real treat.

I am very sad to see that the original, award winning, and historic 5.1 mix was not included on this release. I can understand releasing the film with a new 7.1 sound mix for consumers with those setups, but to blatantly leave the original mix off of this release is a downright shame to film lovers and those who would like to appreciate the work that went into that original mix.

This is part of a growning trend in the home entertainment arena, and it is very unfortunate. Films not only entertain us, but they capture a very distinct moment in time that can live on forever. To not include something that was originally part of a film for the sake of "new technology" is troubling. Gary Rydstrom along with many other artist spent countless hours tweeking and refining the mix we heard in 1993, and throwing a lot of that work to the side is wrong. Given the significance of the film's mix, being the first film in DTS, any honest and estute home video department would make sure this is preserved for the years to come.

I hope my grievance reaches you well, and I also hope any future release of the film has the original mixes presented. To do otherwise seems cheap and lacking any sort of real perspective on a given film and its history in our culture.

Sincerely,

Aaron Garman

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Dead Universal,

Thanks for releasing Jurassic Park on Blu-ray. But really, do we need two loud and unskippable Universal logos before the movie begins which has its own Universal logo? This is just ridiculous.

Also, with all of the space that Blu-ray has, why not include the award-winning 5.1 theatrical sound mix? Obviously you paid to remix the movie into 7.1. Was that cost-effective for you? At least give the option of the original mix, losslessly.

Fuck you very much
-JS Redifer, ESQ

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 10-26-2011, 07:02 PM:
 
Joe, you are my hero.

AJG
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-26-2011, 07:27 PM:
 
I like both versions of the letter.

Make a Facebook page and get millions to join it and have each of them send a copy of the letter to Universal.

Then they'll have to give in and re-release it with all audio tracks.
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 10-26-2011, 08:02 PM:
 
Sadly it wouldn't do any good until blood is shed.

But it really does speak about a major problem in home video: modifying sound tracks without preserving the originals. In the age of Blu-ray, there is no need not to include it. I just got back from Best Buy and glanced at a few discs of some age to see if they included original tracks, specifically some older Disney animation. They all had lossless of course, but most had what was called "restored feature audio" which I assume is an original track. The Lion King was one of the few that did not appear to have this, just an English 7.1 track. Thankfully some horror classics like Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween do have 1.0 mono tracks on them. They're lossy tracks, but at least we still can choose to listen to the original mixes. I had Nightmare at one point, and even though the 5.1 mix is well done, it's much more fun to watch that movie in mono.

AJG
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-26-2011, 08:58 PM:
 

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Sadly it wouldn't do any good until blood is shed.

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Dear Mr. Garman,

Thank you for contacting us. Our goal is to provide the highest standard in product quality and customer care, and we value input from our customers.

Many factors influence the content of our DVD and Blu-ray releases. The English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track is included on our DVD release of
"Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy," Your comments regarding the lack of that audio track on our Blu-ray release will be forwarded to the appropriate department.

We appreciate your opinions and your patronage, and we hope you will enjoy future Universal releases.

Sincerely,

Consumer Relations
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT

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I kinda laughed and their response seems pretentious and automated. If it's the same 5.1 Dolby track from the DVD, it's definitely not the original mix. See here for a more scientific look at the various editions. I don't have the Dolby Digital LD version anymore, but flipping between my old DD DVD and the DTS LD is a night and day difference. The levels seem to match on my SPL meter, but the bass definitely has a different and more robust quality on the LD, but even the less compression seems obvious. The sound field just feels more open, cleaner, and beautiful.

I'd love to pick Gary Rydstrom's brain on this whole thing.

AJG
 

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Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 10-28-2011, 11:52 PM:
 
I am very glad you are getting a lot of usage out of the DTS laserdisc of JURASSIC PARK you bought from me, Aaron.

-Claude
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 10-29-2011, 12:18 AM:
 
Actually I already had that one before the mega sale...so I gave the extra copy to Mike Olpin as a gift of goodwill for showing me a good time at the Traverse City Film Festival.

Rest assured though, the other titles have definitely gotten some play time.

AJG
 

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Posted by Jonathan Goeldner (Member # 4854) on 10-29-2011, 11:31 AM:
 
I feel so stupid that I just sold off my DTS laserdisc of 'Jurassic Park' - AND - 'West Side Story' which the bluray has it's own set of problems as well ...
 

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Posted by Tom Petrov (Member # 1534) on 10-29-2011, 10:32 PM:
 
What a rip-off. $60 for these three movies, no thanks.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-29-2011, 11:02 PM:
 
Things must be more expensive in Canada.
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 05-15-2012, 04:08 PM:
 

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I gave the extra copy to Mike Olpin as a gift of goodwill for showing me a good time at the Traverse City Film Festival.

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I'm sure Phil would say: "Hubba Hubba!" LOL

Did anyone notice that the Dolby Digital logo is now in the tail credits??? And the "DTS Stereo" (analog) logo is missing!

Aaron -- time to write another letter!
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 05-15-2012, 04:21 PM:
 
I'm curious about that actually. Does this perhaps give credence to the theory that some international prints were actually in Dolby Digital?

I want to say the DVD also had the same logos during the credits, which means the master could have been sourced from the same elements. I'll do some more digging when I get home. Yes, I am just that dorky.

AJG
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 05-15-2012, 05:29 PM:
 

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I'll do some more digging when I get home.

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"Because Grant is like me. He's a digger!"
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 05-15-2012, 05:51 PM:
 
Didn't Universal have an exclusive deal with DTS for a while? Once prints started to be "quad" (containing everybody's soundtrack) that probably had ended but I'm still surprised they would have changed the actual credits in the movie.
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 05-16-2012, 12:08 AM:
 
Here first is the THX logo from the DTS LaserDisc as well as the CAV LaserDisc:



Next is the Dolby Stereo and DTS logos. Both were on the DTS disc as well as the CAV set.



And now onto what I found on the DTS DVD, the Blu-ray, and the Dolby AC3 LaserDisc.







What all this means, I don't know. Certainly, I need to get myself a girl.

AJG
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 05-16-2012, 08:39 AM:
 
Aaron: Clearly they didn't change the credits just for those logos. How many other changes can you find?
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 05-16-2012, 09:11 AM:
 

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Didn't Universal have an exclusive deal with DTS for a while? Once prints started to be "quad" (containing everybody's soundtrack) that probably had ended but I'm still surprised they would have changed the actual credits in the movie.

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Yes, Universal did have an exclusive deal with DTS to put it on all Universal Pictures releases after Jurassic Park. That exclusive deal finished at the end of 1997. I think The Boxer was the first Universal release to have more than one digital sound format on the print (DTS & SDDS). Blues Brothers 2000 was Universal's first Quad Format release, 2/6/1998.

As for the different logos on the film prints, that drives me nuts for the unsightly alteration they made to "The Digital Experience" logo. The DVD obviously uses the credit run from a different print inventory made after the original June, 1993 release. Dolby didn't start using the misleading "tri" logo (with the "verify theater format" crap) until the fall of 1993.

The unaltered digital experience logo didn't reproduce so well in small print sizes or rectangular spaces in ads made to hold some kind of Dolby logo. So they screwed around with the logo in really strange ways.

My guess on why a different print inventory (with crappy looking digital experience logo) was made: to get rid of the attached DTS trailer. When Jurassic Park was originally released every 35mm print had a DTS "digital experience" trailer attached. Theaters not equipped with DTS were supposed to remove the trailer. Many did not. So a lot of viewers saw the DTS trailer playing in analog when Jurassic Park was released. Universal kept doing this with other releases into 1994. The Paper is the last one I remember having DTS trailers attached to all prints. I don't know if other studios (like Paramount and New Line) were doing the same thing with their 1993 and early 1994 DTS releases.

Speed was the first movie I saw using the familiar standalone DTS trailer. That trailer is longer than the original DTS trailer. The original only featured The Digital Experience logo with "DTS in selected theaters" shown underneath in small letters. The logo would explode and the trailer was finished (no large "this theater features DTS" logo afterward). I liked the original in one respect that the disc explosion had a really nice wind effect that trailed off into silence -a great transition into the opening title card for Jurassic Park.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 05-16-2012, 09:56 PM:
 
I always thought the Digital Experience logo was cool but was surprised they didn't use the actual "DTS" logo itself in the trailer. Just putting the word "DTS" at the bottom probably didn't mean anything to anyone.
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 05-17-2012, 11:35 AM:
 
The DTS identity crisis...

"The Digital Experience" (and the different logos)
"DTS" vs "dts"
"DTS Stereo" (R.I.P.)
...and now "DATASAT."
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 05-17-2012, 08:36 PM:
 
Don't forget: DTS Digital Sound vs. DTS Digital Surround. Then you have DTS, DTS-HR, DTS-HD MA. I will say at least Dolby didi a better job branding their stuff, well, except for the mentioned Spectral Recording tag.

You also had people who thought it was Digital Theatre Sound, not Digital Theatre Systems.

Of course, it's all better than Datasat.

AJG
 

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Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 05-19-2012, 01:31 PM:
 
The DVD of Jurassic Park does have the Dolby Digital logo in the end credits- I know this because someone mentioned it when it was released, and I double-checked it in a store and didn't buy it because of that. Yes, I'm that obsessive. I bought the Blu-Rays but haven't watched them yet, actually didn't remember the credits issue at the time- was kind of an impulse purchase.
 

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Posted by Robert E. Allen (Member # 1351) on 05-19-2012, 02:34 PM:
 
Well guys, I hear all this talk about Blu-ray and how great the sound and picture quality is but for my money I'm perfectly happy with DVDs and VHSs. Both my DVD player and my VHS player put out very clear pictures and great sound. In fact my VHS player has better sound response (especially in the bass range) than my DVD player and both are piped through the same stereo system. I really don't understand all this hype about something coming out on Blu-ray especially when it seems to be a way for the same companies who put out the VHSs and DVDs to generate more income from people who already have VHS and DVD players. They're not getting my money.
 

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Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 05-19-2012, 02:36 PM:
 
Aaron,
I was one of them who thought DTS stood for Digital Theatre Sound . Thank you for educating me.

-Claude
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 05-20-2012, 12:30 PM:
 

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I really don't understand all this hype

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If you look at a VHS, then a DVD, and then a Blu-Ray of the same content on a large (50" or bigger) flatscreen, then you'll see the difference. If you use a tube-type TV, or even a smaller flat-screen, the difference is less obvious.

Is it possible to enjoy a movie just as much on a small, non-Blu-Ray screen? Absolutlely. I once watched "Die Hard" on a 13", tube-type, 2" speaker TV in our bedroom and enjoyed it just fine. It's all in what each individual wants to satisfy your entertainment desires. Some people can listen to music on a transistor radio and be perfectly fine.
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 05-20-2012, 04:47 PM:
 
transistor radio? How many radios today do not have a transistor in there somewhere (within the IC)? Geeze gramps
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-20-2012, 08:49 PM:
 


That's interesting since the analog tracks on the 35mm prints were A-type and there was no SRD.
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 05-21-2012, 01:14 AM:
 
Make ya wonder if somewhere along the line if some limited number of prints were struck that had SR/SRD.

AJG
 

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Posted by Victor Liorentas (Member # 5272) on 05-21-2012, 10:20 AM:
 
The original print of Forrest Gump I just ran listed D.T.S/SR/SRD on all the leaders but did not have a Dolby Digital track.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 05-21-2012, 11:24 AM:
 

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Make ya wonder if somewhere along the line if some limited number of prints were struck that had SR/SRD.

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The original print of Forrest Gump I just ran listed D.T.S/SR/SRD on all the leaders but did not have a Dolby Digital track.

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