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Audio Restoration for River Kwai

Mark Rozett, rerecording mixer at Burbank's Chace Productions, compares the 5.1 audio remastering done for the DVD of David Lean's World War II epic, Bridge on the River Kwai, to a "Jurassic Park scenario." In 1957, River Kwai was originally released in mono, and Sony then rereleased it in the 70mm, six-track stereo version in 1991. This year, Chace engineers used the company's proprietary Chace Digital Stereo (CDS) technology to produce a discrete, multichannel 5.1 surround version for the DVD release. "In a sense, it was like Jurassic Park: We had DNA elements from the original show, and ...

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