Worst of all was "Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom," Disney's first Cinemascope and stereophonic short.
First, the widescreen image has not been enhanced for widescreen televisions, so it doesn't look as good as it could have looked. Even worse, the stereophonic sound has been mishandled horribly and in an attempt to run it through the surround channels have managed to screw it up terribly with voices fading in and out, the right channel almost silent like its pitch has been turned down to a whisper. The sound is very directional in this short, so that makes for an impossible listening experience.
I was almost convinced I had blown a speaker except I ran a sound test to make sure all the channels were active and the speakers were working.
DR Ron, when you get yours, I hope you'll watch this short through your system to see if it's as bad as what I was hearing today.
Either I've got a defective copy of the disc (hard to believe since the other two shorts played with no sound problems) or Disney dropped the ball badly on this one.
