I was wondering if anybody knows what the deal is with PCM stereo. I just watched Werner Herzog's _Giovanna d'Arco_. Its only avaialble soundtrack is described as LPCM stereo, and it's noticeably and annoyingly out of sync with the mouth movements, and really takes me out off a story that has limited staging to begin with. I also noticed this problem with the PCM tracks of the Met's 1990 Ring cycle DVD. Fortunately, that also has Dolby tracks that are in sync. I assume the PCM tracks are for people who a) don't really care about images when they're watching opera, or b) so people can put the DVD on as background and listen to the same performance with enhanced sound, or c) for people who have some sort of special equipment that makes PCM play in proper sync with the image. Anyway, I'm writing to ask if there is such a thing as c). -- Scott Andrew Hutchins http://web.archive.org/web/20050304105837/mywebpages.comcast.net/scottandrewh/ [archive site; not currently active] http://www.myspace.com/4637382 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scottandrewhutchins http://Cinemopera.dvdaf.com http://akas.imdb.com/name/nm0003149/ "Those who had been successful adapted themselves to the world around them, had bent their greater mental powers into the pattern of acceptable action. And this dulled their usefulness, limited their capacity, hedged their ability with restrictions set up to fit less extraordinary people." -- Clifford D. Simak, "Census" (1944) ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html