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Posted by David Aiken on March 15, 2009 at 13:57:35:
I've got Stargate. The packaging says DTS HDMA 5.1 and I just played the opening and checked. It comes up as 5.1 on my info display.

BUT I'm in Australia and the packaging also says I have a zone B release. I also don't have the words "Extended Cut" on the front cover of the packaging and there's an Australian PG rating label over the area of the front picture where the figures appear below the pyramid to the left and there's a couple of other differences to the packaging so we got a different print run for the cover. Though the cover doesn't say "Extended Cut" I had the DVD with the extended cut and the length and contend of the BD seems identical, at least from memory. The timing of my BD copy matches the timing of the US BD release according to Amazon's info but Amazon doesn't say how many channels the soundtrack is.

I checked 2 US reviews. One says "English Dolby Digital Surround EX/English DTS-HD High Resolution" and doesn't state the number of channels for the DTS HD track. The other says "English: Dolby Digital 5.1 EX/English: DTS-HD 5.1". My packaging states "English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1; English Dolby Digital 5.1".

It may actually be a zone free disc with packaging for release here, or it may be a different release to what you get in the US, but since it was released here after the US I would expect it to be the same material including soundtrack and from the reviews I could quickly find I can see nothing that indicates a 6.1 HD track for the US issue.

You may have a 5.1 Dolby Digital EX track but that's not a high def soundtrack. You may be picking up on that because my copy defaults to the Dolby low def soundtrack unless I manually select the DTS HD MA track. I've got my PS3 set to PCM output so of course the display for the track shows 5.1 (EX is matrixed, not discrete) and it's 5.1 channels that gets passed to my receiver.

Interesting. I can't say you're wrong about your release of Stargate having a high def 6.1 track but mine doesn't and it's hard to imagine Universal preparing separate 5.1 and 6.1 high def tracks for release in different zones.

The above may be a lot of words to waste on whether or not this disc is 6.1 but it's of interest to me as to just how much the local releases here vary from the US release.

David Aiken