25th Anniversary Ed. (DVD & BD)
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The main track here is a 24 bit DTS-HD MA 5.1 track, but a lossy version of the original Dolby Surround 2.0 is also available. Also included are a few dubs, three of which are 24 bit half (Bit)-rate DTS 5.1. The Thai mix is simply stereo. All sound fine, they sort of show their Dolby Surround roots though, with not a huge amount of surround activity.
The DVD copy claims to be Dolby Surround encoded, but none of the programs I used picked up on this. I suspect it's either incorrectly listed, or simply mixed down to regular stereo.
VIDEO
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The quality is great here, a real top notch effort, with this being a 4K remaster is really shows. Nice sharp, fine grain, with little compression artifacts too. Colors & contrast are spot on, with no clipping or crushing. I would argue this even holds up decently against Disney's UHD.
The included DVD, bafflingly, is an exact copy of the original 1999 version. It looks rough & mediocre in almost every possible way. Muddy and soft with loads of film debris. Colors are not great, and there's loads of haloing artifacts and aliasing. The video is also letterboxed within a 4:3 frame, making it even lower resolution. I really don't get why they didn't use the 2006 edition for the DVD copy.
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My biggest issue with this release is the garbage quality DVD copy, but the Blu-Ray is great. I guess that's your trade-off, superb Blu-Ray with terrible DVD copy? I don't think most people will care though, usually if you go to the effort of tracking down a Blu-Ray of a film, you're usually not in it for the DVD copy.
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ASPECT RATIO: 1.85:1 (Original Widescreen)
NUMBER OF DISCS: 1
DISC SIZE: Single-Layer (DVD) / Dual-Layer (BD)
REGION CODE: 1 (DVD)
VIDEO CODEC: MPEG-2 (DVD)/ AVC (BD) (33.3 MB/s)
AUDIO: 24 Bit English DTS-HD MA 5.1 (5.5 MB/s | BD)
English, French, Spanish 2.0 (192 KB/s | DVD)
English 2.0 Dolby Surround (224 KB/s | BD)
French & Spanish 24 Bit 5.1 (DTS 768 KB/s | BD)
Thai 2.0 Dolby Digital (224 KB/s | BD)
SUBTITLES: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Thai (BD Only)
RUN-TIME: 1 Hour 43 Minutes
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (BD)
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The main mix here is a 24 Bit DTS-HD MA 5.1 track. There is also a lossy Dolby 2.0 Surround mix, along with Spanish & French dubs.
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The transfer is...so-so. It doesn't look as good as the remastered version of the first film, but still decent. Colors seem fine, (reds really pop, which is great for a Christmas film!) vibrant but I suspect a wee bit off from what the could be. Contrast seems fine too. Clarity is decent, but with quite a bit of heavy grain & debris at times. It almost looks artificial with how thick the grain looks at times.
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The only extras are two trailers, one is what appears to be an HD print scan of the first films trailer. The second is a low quality tape trailer for this film.
I'd also like to note that this is the unedited original version, and not the TV version. All airings of the film post 9/11 remove the scene of Kevin visiting the world trade center, with the music reedited to make it a seamless cut. All home video versions are unedited.
TECH. SPECS.
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ASPECT RATIO: 1.85:1 (Original Widescreen)
NUMBER OF DISCS: 1
DISC SIZE: Single-Layer (BD-25)
REGION CODE: ABC (Region Free)
VIDEO CODEC: AVC (18.6 Mb/s)
AUDIO: 24 Bit English DTS-HD MA 5.1 (5.2 MB/s)
English, French, Spanish 2.0 Dolby Surround (224 KB/s)
SUBTITLES: English, French, Spanish
RUN-TIME: 2 Hours
