GENERAL

Format Matroska

Duration: 1 h 32 min

Bitrate: 42.5mb/s

Size: 27.3 GiB



VIDEO

Format: AVC (8 bits)

Resolution: 1 920 × 1 080

Aspect ratio: 16:9

Frame rate: 24.000 FPS

Bit rate: 38.8mb/s



AUDIO

1. English / DTS XLL / 5.1ch / 2449kb/s / Surround Upmix / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2449 kbps / 16-bit

2. English / FLAC / 2.0ch / 889kb/s / Original Dolby Stereo Mix / FLAC Audio / Lt/Rt / 48 kHz / 889 kbps / 24-bit

3. English / AC-3 / 2.0ch / 192kb/s / Commentary by action film historians Mike Leeder and Arne Venema



Subtitles: english, french, German, spanish



Release notes:

Stone Cold is an explosion packed, no f---- given, old school action film which marked the acting debut of 1980s football star Brian 'The Boz' Bosworth. Directed by Craig R. Baxley, it was poorly received and a box office flop while, in time, it started gaining some sort of a cult status. It has been recently remastered by Kino Lorber from a new 2K scan of the 35mm interpositive.



Picture quality from the Kino release is better than previous 101 Films / Olive Films releases (which are identical) and NSM Records from Germany, being cleaner with much grain retained and sharper details, better contrast and color accuracy.



Audio-wise Kino only sports the Dolby Stereo mix originally featured in the theater release, while the GER disc also features a 5.1 surround upmix. The Kino matrixed-stereo track has a constant 18-bit depth embedded in a 24-bit container while the one from the GER disc is 16-bit and isn't filtered or denoised in the very high frequencies (see comparison): while that might seem preferable, there isn't any kind of detail loss in the Kino audio and sounds very good. 101/Olive discs have an underwhelming and inexplicable dual mono track. The new Kino release also features a commentary by action film historians Mike Leeder and Arne Venema.



OTHER NOTES

Dolby Stereo track converted to FLAC;

5.1 Surround upmix sped-up from 23.976fps to 24fps with eac3to, MGM Studio sound logo removed from beginning and end, then synced to video with delay;

German, French and Spanish PGS subs added and synced to video;

English PGS SDH subs OCR'd, corrected and synced to create non-SDH subs, SDH / OCR included;

20 named chapters, including end credits, sourced from NTSC DVD and synced to corresponding I-frames.



Source #1:

USA Blu-Ray | Kino Lorber | video / audio / commentary / subs



Source #2:

GER Blu-Ray | NSM Records | audio / subs