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| Registered: June 5, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 93 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've just been thoroughly examining my "The Matrix Trilogy" Bluray discs this weekend, and have found an encoded audio track on all the discs that is not selectable via PowerDVD nor a PS3  It is actually a Japanese audio track in Dolby Digital 5.1 and there also appears to be Japanese subtitles. Now, the contribution rules state Quote:
List audio tracks in the order in which they are encoded on the disc, determined via your DVD player or DVD-ROM drive The audio track is encoded on the disc and I determined it via my DVD-ROM [Bluray-ROM]. Should I take the Red Pill: submit an update adding the "missing" Audio Track, given that I don't believe the manufacturers of the disc have made it accessible? It could be a hidden Easter Egg, but I have no information that it is, and I personally doubt it is. My assumption is it is a "common" encoded video/audio stream that has been used in different geographical regions, and the menuing system has been "regionalised" to limit access to the various languages. I've extracted about 30 minutes of it to disc, and listened to it: sounds Japanese to me  Or should I take the Blue Pill, and forget I ever found it???  | | | | You can download higher resolution versions of any of my cover scans from here | | | | Last edited: by Lewpy |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 940 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'd take the blue pill. | | | | Kevin |
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| Registered: May 9, 2008 | | Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Lewpy: Quote:
I've just been thoroughly examining my "The Matrix Trilogy" Bluray discs this weekend, and have found an encoded audio track on all the discs that is not selectable via PowerDVD nor a PS3
It is actually a Japanese audio track in Dolby Digital 5.1 and there also appears to be Japanese subtitles.
The same it true with the Batman Gotham Knights Blu-Ray. However, on the disc if you set your player's default language to Japanese You get different menus and the audio track and subtitles unlocked and they become selectable. Might want to try this. Tom |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,601 |
| | Posted: | | | | Warner did the same thing with The Perfect Storm, Eraser, and Interview with the Vampire to name a few. I don't understand why Warner is singling out the Japanese audio and subtitle tracks since other asian tracks, when made available, can be found via the main menu.
I'd append the Japanese track to the end of all of the other tracks found via the regular menu. |
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| Registered: June 5, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 93 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting tkinnen: Quote:
The same it true with the Batman Gotham Knights Blu-Ray. However, on the disc if you set your player's default language to Japanese You get different menus and the audio track and subtitles unlocked and they become selectable. Might want to try this. Unfortunately, PowerDVD's language selection drop-down list is in local language format, so the Asian languages are difficult for me to interpret, so selecting Japanese is tricky  But they look like they are in Western alpabetical order, so the first two are probably Chinese variations, so Japanese is one of the other two ... 50/50  possibly Japanese and Korean, so will go with Option C  Time for some more investigating | | | | You can download higher resolution versions of any of my cover scans from here |
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| Registered: June 5, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 93 |
| | Posted: | | | | Tom: you were spot on All I had to do (in the end, after a few attempts) was change my Menu Language in PowerDVD to Japanese, and there appeared the Japanese audio track and subtitles! I will have to add those, with suitable explanation. However, I can see people trying to remove these in the future, as they won't see them listed by default. Also, it is not listed on the covers. I am going to have to keep an eye out for these in the future | | | | You can download higher resolution versions of any of my cover scans from here |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,601 |
| | Posted: | | | | Japanese in it's native language should look like this: http://translate.google.com/translate_t#en|ja|japaneseLewpy, I've also encountered the same situation earlier last week. Until Warner changes it's practices I believe this will be a point of contention for some time. Most people won't realize it until it's pointed out to them. | | | | Last edited: by rdodolak |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 668 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would take the red pill and submit it - I assume it is selectable when cycling through the audio-streams with the players Audio-button?
I had one like it a few months back - don't remember which movie it was, but it had subtitles that was not selectable through the menus, only when cycling through them with the subtitle-button. I submitted that, stating the above in the notes, and it was approved with a lot of yes-votes and no no-votes... | | | | The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,483 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Lewpy: Quote:
I've just been thoroughly examining my "The Matrix Trilogy" Bluray discs this weekend, and have found an encoded audio track on all the discs that is not selectable via PowerDVD nor a PS3
It is actually a Japanese audio track in Dolby Digital 5.1 and there also appears to be Japanese subtitles.
Wouldn't this be considered an easter Egg?? | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,601 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Rander: Quote:
I assume it is selectable when cycling through the audio-streams with the players Audio-button? Unfortunately, with the Warner titles, you can't find the audio track by cycling through the audio tracks. The only time the track becomes available is when the default menu language is set to Japanese. When this is done the only audio tracks made available are usually an English and a Japanese track. |
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| Registered: March 24, 2007 | | Posts: 240 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
Quoting Lewpy:
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I've just been thoroughly examining my "The Matrix Trilogy" Bluray discs this weekend, and have found an encoded audio track on all the discs that is not selectable via PowerDVD nor a PS3
It is actually a Japanese audio track in Dolby Digital 5.1 and there also appears to be Japanese subtitles.
Wouldn't this be considered an easter Egg?? It's not an easter egg, it's a sneaky trick to let them charge double the price for the same disc in Japan. If someone in Japan goes to Amazon.com they see $25 but no Japanese listed. They go to Amazon.co.jp they see $50 and it has Japanese (it's also the same disc with a different label). Or Worse, it comes in a fancy box with a figure and more extras discs and costs 37905yen. I even have one DVD like this. Set my Player to R1 and I see English menus and trailers, set it to R2 and I see all Japanese. I think it took a week for people to figure out what they were trying to pull  | | | | Tom. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | As long as you make good contribution notes, it gets easier for folks to vote no on future changes to remove it. People actually will go through the notes to understand why something happened. |
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