earwig wrote:
Seems weird... that could have used the previous 5.1 mixes from the 2000 (?) box set??
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The whole QP is mostly boring and a lot of the great ideas are rejected by the music and producer executives BM and RT because the music quality of the old tapes etc are not perfect and their business model is quick cash for less effort.
I've always been puzzled by QPL's obsession with 5.1 mixes tbh. Who the fuck listens to them? Who has a 5.1 setup at home? It's a bit of a gimmick really, and people tried it about 20 years ago and then went back to normal stereo. It is so niche. Yet we get told they won't release things from the archive because the potential market for them is so small.
And it's no wonder the picture quality on most Queen related DVDs is low (apart from the poor initial restoration work) - because they've taken up a load of the disc space with lossless stereo AND 5.1 audio - bizarre. Not an issue with blu-ray - but a major fuck up when it comes to DVD.
I had a surround sound setup around the time the Queen DVDs started coming out. The can be interesting - but I have not interest in setting one up again.
I think you're extrapolating from a very small sample there. Plenty of people have surround systems these days, given that TV picture quality has improved to match cinema picture quality, and formats form DVD onwards enable a cinema-esque sound reproduction for films.