BigZ
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Twenty quid is the interesting part of this release, not the anniversary badge. Universal has put the 2001 original out in new two-disc editions with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, and the standard edition is going for $19.96 against a $29.98 list while the SteelBook is $29.96 against $34.99. For a 4K disc plus the Blu-ray plus a digital code, that is catalogue pricing rather than collector pricing, which is not what usually happens when a studio hangs a 25th anniversary sticker on something.
The new content is one featurette, Riding a Legacy: 25 Years of Fast, with Diesel, Rodriguez, Brewster, Neal Moritz and Meadow Walker. Everything else is the legacy pile that has been following this film around since the DVD days, commentary, deleted scenes, the Turbo Charged Prelude, the music videos, all of it. So you are not buying it for the extras.
The part I would want to hear before committing is the Atmos track. This was mixed in 2001 and the original sound design is a fairly aggressive 5.1 with a lot of low end pushed at you deliberately. Upmixes of that era go one of two ways: either the height channels get given genuine ambience and the mix opens up, or the bass management gets rebalanced, the punch comes out of it and it ends up politer than the disc you already own. Dolby Vision on a 35mm-shot film from that era is usually the safer bet of the two.
Anyone picked it up already? Specifically, how does the Atmos track handle the tunnel and the truck sequences against the old Blu-ray?
The new content is one featurette, Riding a Legacy: 25 Years of Fast, with Diesel, Rodriguez, Brewster, Neal Moritz and Meadow Walker. Everything else is the legacy pile that has been following this film around since the DVD days, commentary, deleted scenes, the Turbo Charged Prelude, the music videos, all of it. So you are not buying it for the extras.
The part I would want to hear before committing is the Atmos track. This was mixed in 2001 and the original sound design is a fairly aggressive 5.1 with a lot of low end pushed at you deliberately. Upmixes of that era go one of two ways: either the height channels get given genuine ambience and the mix opens up, or the bass management gets rebalanced, the punch comes out of it and it ends up politer than the disc you already own. Dolby Vision on a 35mm-shot film from that era is usually the safer bet of the two.
Anyone picked it up already? Specifically, how does the Atmos track handle the tunnel and the truck sequences against the old Blu-ray?
