The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 REPACK 2160p UHD BluRay REMUX DV HDR HEVC TrueHD 7 1 Atmos-STiNG
Five friends visiting their grandpa's old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Year: 1974
Duration: 83 min
Release date: Tuesday 1st October 1974
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Rating
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Stars:
Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
Video
The new GBR has more vibrant colours and better clarity than the GER/USA UHD blu-rays. GBR has a new Dolby Vision master of 77 kbps MEL compared to the 68 kbps MEL on GER/USA. Video demuxed with MakeMKV 1.17.3 and the rest with eac3to. No syncing was involved because the FRA, 40th USA, and AUS discs fluctuated between 0-2 frames difference compared to the GBR UHD, which was already in sync with the GER/USA UHDs.
Comparisons: https://slow.pics/c/0PYtURIY
DoVi_Tool L1 Plot Comparisons: https://slow.pics/c/u5Chw3xg
Audio
The USA UHD had the best Atmos and compatibility track (identical to GER UHD). The GBR UHD TrueHD has two more objects but contains empty spots in multiple channels and a bit-starved compatibility track at 224 kbps. I included the unique Auro-3D 13.1 Upmix from the GER UHD. I used the Original Mono from the AUS disc because while it was similar to the USA UHD and GER UHD, it boasts a higher bit-depth, proper levels, and better dynamic range. FRA was also a 24-bit contender but it had 200+ possibly clipped samples, and the possibly flawed GBR UHD has a slight band of lowered volume at about 15kHz and then slightly above that a band of raised volume.
TrueHD Spectrograms: https://slow.pics/c/N1znuP2b
TrueHD Waveform and Stats: https://slow.pics/c/VS0urfoP
Original Mono Comparisons: https://slow.pics/c/N1ipwBQl
Original Mono Waveform and Stats: https://slow.pics/c/WB8kkw9B
The FRA disc contains two superior DTS commentaries over the DD alternatives. The 40th USA disc has a slightly higher bitrate (224 kbps vs 192 kbps) for the other two commentaries. The GBR UHD contains a fifth commentary.
Subtitles
Oh boy, this one was a doozy. The only good image-based regular subs were from the USA UHD. The 40th USA disc only had English SDH subs, but in general they are much better than any other disc. Included OCR&d SDH and removed SDH portions for the ultimate regular subtitle. I highly recommend using either the SDH OCR or the regular OCR if you are using English subtitles. It contains more complete dialogue and highly accurate timings at the cost of minimal dual-speaker lines. I increased too-short timing lengths, fixed line breaks, spellchecked and other small tweaks. I also borrowed some better auditory descriptions from the GBR UHD, as well as some of my own.
Moving on from English, I included French regular and SDH (OCR&d by me) with two commentary subtitles, German regular and SDH with four commentary subtitles, Castilian Spanish with two commentary subtitles, and finally SDH Latin American Spanish. All gathered from the discs except for Castilian Spanish. Tonemapped when required.
Chapters
I used the GBR UHD chapter timings and combined them with the 40th USA disc&s chapter titles. There were three remaining unnamed chapters so I named them (“Bones and Feathers”, “Nightfall”, and “Family Reunion”). Synced to proper i-frames.
