The Firm 1993 2160p BluRay Remux HDR DV HEVC DTS-HD MA 5.1-BiZKiT
A young lawyer joins a prestigous law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.
Year: 1993
Duration: 154 min
Release date: Wednesday 30th June 1993
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Rating
6.7/10
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Stars:
Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook
RUNTiME.......: 2h:34m:31s
SiZE..........: 73.4GB
ViDEO.........: MPEG-H HEVC @ 65580 kbps (HDR10 & DV FEL P7)
FRAMERATE.....: 23.976fps
RESOLUTiON....: 3840x2160
AUDiO1........: FLAC 2.0 @ 444 kbps (Original Dolby Stereo Mix (1994 JPN LaserDisc [PILF-1836]))
AUDiO2........: DTS-HD MA 5.1 @ 1962 kbps / 24-bit
SUBTiTLES.....: English, French, Spanish [Castilian], Spanish [Latin American],
Portuguese, Portuguese [Brazilian], German, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish,
Turkish, Italian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, Estonian, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew,
Chinese [Mandarin Traditional], Chinese [Mandarin Simplified], Chinese [Cantonese],
Japanese, Korean
CHAPTERS......: Yes (named like on DVD)
SOURCE1.......: 2160p EUR UHD Blu-ray DoVi HDR10 HEVC DTS-HD MA 5.1-Tasko (video & audio)
SOURCE2.......: 2160p Remux DoVi HDR10 HEVC DTS-HD MA 5.1-CiNEPHiLES (original stereo mix & chapters)
iMDB LiNK.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106918/
NOTES:
As with Vanilla Sky, the 2023 release is a major shit show, with tons of grain wiped out, banding and artefacting.
See the comparison thread for more details.
I do wish they would have used DV MEL, like they did with Vanilla Sky. I'm not overly happy with the grain structure in this one and - same as Arrow - I do consider DV FEL is destructive to the original film grain.
MakeMKV (1.17.6) was used to demux video, in order to merge the DV FEL metadata with the HDR10 base layer and obtain a single layer file (as opposed to the double layer one on the UHD disc).
One small note: I ran this through latest nightly tsMuxeR and I got 5 instances of "e;Bad SEI detected. SEI too short"e;. While I haven't fully understood what it means, I believe it has to do with the DV metadata. Granted, I did watch this and haven't noticed any abnormalities during playback.
The TrueHD track on the 2023 release is bloated for no reason. Probably so are the tracks from the old 1080p BDs.
It's all in the above mentioned comparison thread.
Both UHD transfers have the exact same runtime, so I took the chapters and original stereo mix from the previous CiNEPHiLES remux.
I'll partly copy/paste the description of the aforementioned remux, for reference:
CiNEPHiLES wrote:
I got 2x LD audios (stereo) for this so got to processing it at same sound levels with the help of audition and turns out both are same, so just used the JPN LD audio. The audio was pre-synced to the WEB, which is frame accurate to the Blu-ray. Similar process done with the 5.1 tracks across other regional Paramount Blu-rays
I'm not a fan of PGS subs... never was, never will be. Especially for HDR, where they burn your retina out, no matter to what white point you tonemap them.
I've checked the PGS subs against the SRT ones and they are identical, so decided to only keep SRT subs, except for English where I kept both PGS & SRT.
No more wasted space for something that can't be customized whatsoever during playback.
Almost all SRT subs are from iTunes, apart from Romanian which was taken from the retail DVD.
English and Romanian subs have been fully revised.
All subs have their own source tags so that there's no confusion where each is sourced from.
eac3to v3.50
command line: eac3to "e;X:\NZBs\The Firm 1993 2160p EUR UHD Blu-Ray HDR DV HEVC DTS-HD MA 5.1-Tasko\BDMV\PLAYLIST\00001.mpls"e; 4:"e;X:\+ PROJECTS +\The Firm\EUR UHD audio.dtshd"e; 9:"e;X:\+ PROJECTS +\The Firm\English.sup"e; -log="e;X:\+ PROJECTS +\The Firm\eac3to demux log.txt"e;
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Running in normal mode
Keeping dialnorm
M2TS, 2 video tracks, 5 audio tracks, 14 subtitle tracks, 2:34:32
1: Chapters, 20 chapters
2: h265/HEVC, 2160p24/1.001 (16:9), 10 bits
3: *h265/HEVC, 1080p24/1.001 (16:9), 10 bits
4: DTS Master Audio, English, 5.1 channels, 16 bits, 48kHz, dialnorm: 0dB
(core: DTS, 5.1 channels, 1509kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: 0dB)
5: DTS, Italian, 2.0 channels, 768kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: 0dB
6: DTS, Spanish, 2.0 channels, 768kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: 0dB
7: DTS, Czech, 2.0 channels, 768kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: 0dB
8: DTS, Hungarian, 2.0 channels, 768kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: 0dB
9: Subtitle (PGS), English
10: Subtitle (PGS), Italian
11: Subtitle (PGS), Danish
12: Subtitle (PGS), Swedish
13: Subtitle (PGS), Norwegian
14: Subtitle (PGS), Finnish
15: Subtitle (PGS), Spanish
16: Subtitle (PGS), Czech
17: Subtitle (PGS), Hungarian
18: Subtitle (PGS), Korean
19: Subtitle (PGS), Chinese
20: Subtitle (PGS), Thai
21: Subtitle (PGS), Italian
22: Subtitle (PGS), Spanish
[s09] Extracting subtitle track number 9...
[a04] Extracting audio track number 4...
[a04] Creating file "e;X:\+ PROJECTS +\The Firm\EUR UHD audio.dtshd"e;...
[s09] Creating file "e;X:\+ PROJECTS +\The Firm\English.sup"e;...
Video track 2 contains 222275 frames.
Video track 3 contains 222275 frames.
Subtitle track 9 contains 1777 captions.
eac3to processing took 5 minutes, 45 seconds.
Done.
