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[seemoe]

Dolby 5.1 programs in 2008
Here is an up-to-date list of Dolby Digital 5.1 and 5.1EX series, movies, sport and one-off programs broadcast in 2008. Please post any corrections, suggestions or programs that have been missed off.


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SEVEN
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Series

• 30 Rock [DD5.1]
• Alias [DD5.1]
• Bones [DD5.1]
• Boston Legal [DD5.1]
• Break It Down [DD5.1]
• Brothers & Sisters [DD5.1]
• Cavemen [DD5.1]
• Criminal Minds [DD5.1]
• Daybreak [DD5.1]
• Desperate Housewives [DD5.1]
• Dirty Sexy Money [DD5.1]
• Eli Stone [DD5.1]
• Erky Perky [DD5.1]
• Final 24 [DD5.1]
• Ghost Whisperer [DD5.1]
• Grey's Anatomy [DD5.1]
• Heroes [DD5.1]
• How I Met Your Mother [DD5.1]
• In Case of Emergency [DD5.1]
• Lipstick Jungle [DD5.1]
• Lost [DD5.1]
• Night Stalker [DD5.1]
• Private Practice [DD5.1]
• Samantha Who? [DD5.1]
• Six Degrees [DD5.1]
• The Knights of Prosperity [DD5.1]
• Ugly Betty [DD5.1]
• Ultimate Access [DD5.1]

Movies

• 24: Redemption [DD5.1]
• Camp Rock [DD5.1]
• Cars [DD5.1]
• Cheaper By The Dozen 2 [DD5.1]
• Derailed [DD5.1]
• Fantastic Four [DD5.1]
• Flightplan [DD5.1]
• Ice Princess [DD5.1]
• Just Like Heaven [DD5.1]
• Knight Rider [DD5.1]
• Kung Pow: Enter the Fist [DD5.1]
• Meet the Parents [DD5.1]
• Munich [DD5.1]
• Over The Hedge [DD5.1]
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest [DD5.1]
• Scary Movie 4 [DD5.1]
• Sky High [DD5.1]
• Sleepover [DD5.1]
• Species III [DD5.1]
• The Family Stone [DD5.1]
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe [DD5.1]
• Toy Story 2 [DD5.1]
• Transporter 2 [DD5.1]
• Walk the Line [DD5.1]
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [DD5.1]
• War of the Worlds [DD5.1]

Sport

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Specials

• Inside Queen Mary 2 [DD5.1]

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NINE
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Series

• Kidnapped [DD5.1]
• McLeod's Daughters [DD5.1]
• Sea Patrol II: The Coup [DD5.1]
• Underbelly [DD5.1]

Movies

• 16 Blocks [DD5.1]
• 50 First Dates [DD5.1]
• Alexander [DD5.1]
• Austin Powers in Goldmember [DD5.1]
• Bad Boys II [DD5.1]
• Batman Begins [DD5.1]
• Catch Me If You Can [DD5.1]
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [DD5.1]
• Daddy Day Care [DD5.1]
• Freddy vs. Jason [DD5.1]
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [DD5.1EX]
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [DD5.1EX]
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone [DD5.1EX]
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [DD5.1EX]
• Hitch [DD5.1]
• I Am Sam [DD5.1]
• Kangaroo Jack [DD5.1]
• Ocean's Twelve [DD5.1]
• Poseidon [DD5.1]
• Prime [DD5.1EX]
• Rumor Has It [DD5.1]
• RV: Runaway Vacation [DD5.1]
• Scooby-Doo 2 - Monsters Unleashed [DD5.1]
• Snakes on a Plane [DD5.1]
• Spider-Man [DD5.1EX]
• S.W.A.T. [DD5.1]
• Take the Lead [DD5.1]
• Tears of the Sun [DD5.1]
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines [DD5.1]
• The Cat in the Hat [DD5.1]
• The Da Vinci Code [DD5.1]
• The Dukes of Hazzard [DD5.1]
• The Legend of Zorro [DD5.1]
• The Punisher [DD5.1]
• The Time Machine [DD5.1]
• The Tuxedo [DD5.1]
• Troy [DD5.1]
• Wedding Crashers [DD5.1]
• Who's Harry Crumb? [DD5.1]
• Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! [DD5.1]

Sport

• Cricket: All-Star Twenty/20 (All-Stars v Australian XI at Gabba) [DD5.1]
• Cricket: Twenty/20 International (Australia v India at MCG) [DD5.1]

Specials

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TEN
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Series

• Army Wives [DD5.1]
• Rush [DD5.1]
• So You Think You Can Dance (Australia) [DD5.1]
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars [DD5.1]

Movies

• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith [DD5.1]

Sport

• AFL: 2008 NAB Cup (Grand Final - Adelaide v St Kilda) [DD5.1]
• AFL: 2008 Premiership Season [DD5.1] (only games produced by Network Ten)
• Golf: US Masters 2008 [DD5.1]
• Golf: US Open 2008 [DD5.1]
• NFL: 2008/09 Season [DD5.1]

Specials

• Brownlow Medal 2008 [DD5.1]

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ABC
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Series

• Erky Perky [DD5.1]
• Wild China [DD5.1]

Movies

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Sport

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Specials

• The Big Blue [DD5.1]


- Please note that in some states, 9HD have their audio deliberately output in Dobly Digital 5.1 regardless of the source material. This includes advertisements and news programs (if the ads are coming through in 5.1 it most likely isn't genuine 5.1).

Edited by seemoe, 20 December 2008 - 12:46 AM.

[cwt]

Seemoe ; the Punisher a 9 movie a while ago was dd5.1 .

[seemoe]

is the US Open on 10 in 5.1? I havent been able to check

[Craig]

NINE HD 5.1 Movies:

A Man Apart
Freddy vs Jason
Poltergeist


Craig

[tonymy01]

seemoe, on Jun 14 2008, 10:48 PM, said:

is the US Open on 10 in 5.1? I havent been able to check

Yes it is, and quite nice looking at US stuff in HD rather than smudged NTSC!
Cheers

[FeOe_Vidz]

Daytime movie on 7HD today - Sleepover - came out as 5.1

[seemoe]

does anyone know why shows on 7 like Bones, Private Practise, Cavemen, Dirty Sexy Money, the first few eps are stereo and now they decide to show them in 5.1?

[digitalj]

seemoe, on Jul 17 2008, 11:31 PM, said:

does anyone know why shows on 7 like Bones, Private Practise, Cavemen, Dirty Sexy Money, the first few eps are stereo and now they decide to show them in 5.1?

The first ones may have not had 5.1 available or 7 may have just got stereo not knowing they were available in 5.1 and when later found out ordered the 5.1 versions.

[gavstar1]

digitalj, on Jul 17 2008, 11:54 PM, said:

The first ones may have not had 5.1 available or 7 may have just got stereo not knowing they were available in 5.1 and when later found out ordered the 5.1 versions.

Is anyone aware of whether Prime have any plans to broadcast the above shows in 5.1 on their HD channel?

Seems were still stuck with stereo soundtrack in the ACT...

[Craig]

NINE HD 5.1 Movies:

Little Oberon
Rumour Has It
The Legend Of Zorro
Stuart Little 2
Maid In Manhattan
The Notebook
She's The Man
I Am Sam
Big Daddy
The Man




Craig.

[seemoe]

Craig, on Jul 23 2008, 12:53 PM, said:

NINE HD 5.1 Movies:

Little Oberon
Rumour Has It
The Legend Of Zorro
Stuart Little 2
Maid In Manhattan
The Notebook
She's The Man
I Am Sam
Big Daddy
The Man




Craig.

you sure those were true 5.1? i think sydney have 5.1 audio on permanently for everything and if i remember correctly stuart little wasnt HD in perth. ill add em nonetheless thanks. also just a reminder that there are many movies shown in melbourne sydney and brisbane that arent shown in perth and vice versa so post them here to add to the list

cheers

[sold]

Kidnapped on Nine HD is 5.1.

[Craig]

Nine HD 5.1 Movies:

Multiplicity
The Extra (SD upconverted)
Jesse Stone:  Night Passage
Jesse Stone:  Death In Paradise
Win A Date With Tad Hamilton!

Nine HD (Multi-Channel Breakaway) 5.1 Series:

Big Day

[digitalj]

Craig, on Aug 6 2008, 02:32 PM, said:

Nine HD 5.1 Movies:

Multiplicity
The Extra (SD upconverted)
Jesse Stone:  Night Passage
Jesse Stone:  Death In Paradise
Win A Date With Tad Hamilton!

Nine HD (Multi-Channel Breakaway) 5.1 Series:

Big Day

SD Sourced material doesn't contain 5.1. 9 in Sydney are doing fake 5.1 most of the time.

[seemoe]

digitalj, on Aug 6 2008, 01:11 PM, said:

SD Sourced material doesn't contain 5.1. 9 in Sydney are doing fake 5.1 most of the time.

yeh I'm not going to add those. I've listed channel 9 movies that have been 5.1 in perth because we never used to get the fake 5.1 unless it was breakaway programming. Now we don't get any 5.1. So the only people who can tell us if it's real 5.1 are those in Melbourne / Brisbane and other cities. Theres a big question mark over the whole 9 section at the moment, only 7, 10 and ABC are accurate

Edited by seemoe, 06 August 2008 - 07:28 PM.

[cortilach]

Hello All, were I live (near Albury / Wodonga) I have only noticed one program in Dolby Digital 5.1. It was 'sea patrol'. I have watched a lot of the programs listed above and they have been reccognised as stereo. Is this a reception issue or a local broadcast issue?

Thankyou I would appreciate any ideas  

[tonymy01]

digitalj, on Aug 6 2008, 03:11 PM, said:

SD Sourced material doesn't contain 5.1. 9 in Sydney are doing fake 5.1 most of the time.

   And 80% of the time, is very very terrible mix.   Have they got a "doof doof" boy to crank up the bass to pump into the LFE channel?   And the dialogue is often not in the centre, but kind of distributed amongst most of the speakers, making it have an eery echo presence, due to Dolby Digital supporting delays for the rear speakers vs the front.
Nein, if you only have Dolby Surround source, please broadcast it that way!!   Or sack your doof doof boy and get a better sound technician.
Regards

[Neon Kitten]

Craig, on Jul 23 2008, 02:53 PM, said:

NINE HD 5.1 Movies:

Little Oberon

The recent daytime re-screening of this on Nine HD had the "Dolby Digital" logo at the start, but was in 2.0 stereo. It was also edited by about 6 or 7 minutes.

Macleods Daughters last night, meanwhile, carried the Dolby Digital logo AND a new one - "SRS Circle Surround 5.1".

Interestingly, checking the SRS web site's "technologies" page, there is no such thing as "Circle Surround 5.1" (SRS specialises in truly god-awful fake-surround-from-stereo processing).

[seemoe]

Neon Kitten, on Aug 7 2008, 06:36 PM, said:

The recent daytime re-screening of this on Nine HD had the "Dolby Digital" logo at the start, but was in 2.0 stereo. It was also edited by about 6 or 7 minutes.

Macleods Daughters last night, meanwhile, carried the Dolby Digital logo AND a new one - "SRS Circle Surround 5.1".

Interestingly, checking the SRS web site's "technologies" page, there is no such thing as "Circle Surround 5.1" (SRS specialises in truly god-awful fake-surround-from-stereo processing).

mcleods daughters has been on the list since the start of the year when they were showing repeats. in case anyone was wondering

Edited by seemoe, 07 August 2008 - 10:21 PM.

[Craig]

digitalj, on Aug 6 2008, 03:11 PM, said:

SD Sourced material doesn't contain 5.1. 9 in Sydney are doing fake 5.1 most of the time.

Well we'll just see about that tonight when THE EXTRA goes to air on NINE HD as SD upconverted but with 5.1 audio.

Craig.

[digitalj]

Craig, on Aug 9 2008, 05:03 PM, said:

Well we'll just see about that tonight when THE EXTRA goes to air on NINE HD as SD upconverted but with 5.1 audio.

Craig.

just because it sounds like 5.1 doesn't mean it was originally 5.1.

[seemoe]

Craig, on Aug 9 2008, 03:03 PM, said:

Well we'll just see about that tonight when THE EXTRA goes to air on NINE HD as SD upconverted but with 5.1 audio.

Craig.

how do you know it will be broadcast in 5.1?

[sold]

Star Wars Ep 3 on Ten is HD with 5.1. Also regarding Kidnapped I'm in Adelaide so I'm 99% sure it is actual 5.1.

[LBM]

Kidnapped was using the correct speakers when I checked (didn't realise it was on until the end). The rest would be typical Nine, not actually surround.

[sold]

I had another look and it seems all programs on 'Nine HD' multi-channelling coming out of wherever with the really bad watermark are all '5.1.' in Adelaide as well. Programs with the standard Adelaide watermark are still being done properly and on that note 'Win a date with tad hamilton' was in 5.1.