Hey, Author, about that Manabi Straight LE...

So, I started digging, and I noticed that the regular DVD has an uncompressed stereo audio (which is better than typical R1’s AC-3), but LE has “Dolby Digital Stereo”. I presume the latter is their moonspeak for 5.1. But if so, LE DVD is mastered differently from regular! How odd. Since I don’t have a 5.1 system, I don’t see how this would benefit me, but I made a mental note.

Nope. "Dolby Digital Stereo" = AC-3 encoded 2.0 audio. The other version has an uncompressed PCM track. Honestly, this never did anything for me - seemed like the absolute stupidest way you could possibly use 15% of your total available bandwidth, given that animation needs a lot more bandwidth than live-action video to look really nice. OTOH, I was doing dual-language DVDs, so two uncompressed tracks would have been a third of the available bandwidth and, thus, ridiculous...

But having the LE with compressed audio when the regular DVD has PCM? Weird. Only thing I can think of is that the LE includes additional video extras that ate up free space on the disc. Or the listing's wrong for one or the other, heh.

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