Don’t expect much bass and, as with the video, don’t expect this to hold up to comparison with either Jackie’s more recent escapades, or any relatively new Hollywood release, but – taken in context – this is not only the best aural presentation the movie has ever been afforded, but it is also probably the best you could expect from this 1991 Hong Kong film. Varying from the boisterous main theme to the various silly moments which garner suitably goofy scoring, this is the most prominent part of the mix. There are some marginally lame gunshot effects, a few nominal explosions and some other louder noises to give the surrounds further work to do, but it’s the score that remains pervasive throughout. Dialogue comes across clearly from the fronts and centre channels, and effects are well-observed across the array, with some accentuated fighting blows smacking your surrounds into action. I know that DTS-HD Master Audio tracks are the current unofficial standard, but this lossless Dolby alternative is a great accompaniment for the movie and few will have reason to complain about the way this sounds. On the aural front we get three different flavours of soundtrack, although the only one you should really care about is the original language Cantonese Dolby TrueHD 7.1 mix (the other two are Mandarin and Thai dubs). It’s not an astounding presentation – it will never stand up to scrutiny alongside any recent productions – but considering the limitations of the original material, this is a very good end result which shouldn’t disappoint fans of the film. There’s no print damage, nor any significant digital defects, the colour scheme holds strong for the most part, which is good in a film that has such unusual settings (the vibrant greens of the opening island setpiece making a nice counterpoint to the later dusty oranges of the desert), and even the more low-level lighting sequences hold up, with blacks remaining relatively strong throughout. I haven’t seen many of Jackie’s old Hong Kong films look this good.
Sure there is edge enhancement evident, and softness does occasionally come into play, as does a reasonable layer of grain, but none of it is particularly objectionable, and it shows a marked upgrade from the previous SD-DVD releases. Detail is generally very good, whether for the close-up shots or the longer desert scenes. Whilst never exceptional, the presentation afforded this film is easily the best that it has ever seen and probably the most that you could possibly expect from a 1991 HK film. Thankfully this is not one of their more dubious offerings, a clear example of a remastered HD rendition rather than just a transfer that looks little more than upconverted SD-DVD. Kam & Ronson Enterprises are a studio who have handled several of Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong back-catalogue, and have given us some mixed results.
Is used to close the current input stream.On Region A-locked Hong Kong Blu-ray we get a solid 1080p video presentation in the movie’s original theatrical aspect ratio of widescreen 2.35:1. Returns an estimate of the number of bytes that can be read from the current input stream. It returns -1 at the end of the file.Ģ) public int available()throws IOException Reads the next byte of data from the input stream.
Useful methods of InputStream Methodġ) public abstract int read()throws IOException It is the superclass of all classes representing an input stream of bytes. Is used to close the current output stream. Is used to write an array of byte to the current output stream. Is used to write a byte to the current output stream.Ģ) public void write(byte)throws IOException Useful methods of OutputStream Methodġ) public void write(int)throws IOException An output stream accepts output bytes and sends them to some sink. It is the superclass of all classes representing an output stream of bytes. Let's understand the working of Java OutputStream and InputStream by the figure given below. Java application uses an input stream to read data from a source it may be a file, an array, peripheral device or socket. Java application uses an output stream to write data to a destination it may be a file, an array, peripheral device or socket. The explanation of OutputStream and InputStream classes are given below: OutputStream
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