{"id":1110,"date":"2004-10-16T22:06:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T11:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2010-03-29T10:29:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T23:29:37","slug":"aladdin-dvd-appears-with-thx-optimizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"<em>Aladdin<\/em> DVD appears &#8211; with THX Optimizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/blog\/graphics\/thx-optimizer-2.jpg\" alt=\"Setup panel on 'Aladdin' DVD\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" \/> The Region 2\/4 DVD of the 1992 Disney animated feature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103639\/\"><em>Aladdin<\/em><\/a> was released a few days ago. This provides another opportunity for people to set up their audio systems and display devices properly, thanks to the inclusion of the THX Optimizer on this DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Just insert Disc 1, wait for the main menu to appear, then choose &#8216;Setup&#8217;. You will see the THX Optimizer icon. Select this, and work through the system. There&#8217;s a good chance both your picture and surround performance will be improved.<\/p>\n<p>Most DVD movies have subtitles, of course, for the hearing impaired. This one, though, comes with &#8216;Descriptive Audio&#8217; for the visually impaired. Basically, a pleasant male voice describes the action as it takes place. Normally, rather pointless I would have thought, I can see its point with a musical such as this. The default audio is something called &#8216;English 5.1 Disney Enhanced Home Theatre Mix&#8217;. There&#8217;s also a standard 5.1 mix. Not sure what the difference is yet. (Nice of Disney to spell &#8216;Theatre&#8217; correctly for the PAL version.)<\/p>\n<p>It also has a couple of commentary tracks and, excellently, runs these at a mere 96 kilobits per second in mono (1.0). Why waste hi-fi bitrate levels for mere commentary, detracting from the picture quality? Both the 5.1 tracks run 448kb\/s, and the &#8216;Descriptive Audio&#8217; track uses a further 192kb\/s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Region 2\/4 DVD of the 1992 Disney animated feature Aladdin was released a few days ago. This provides another opportunity for people to set up their audio systems and display devices properly, thanks to the inclusion of the THX &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1110\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,8,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}