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Topic: SDDS Anacronyms
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Ken Layton
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posted 05-30-1999 03:21 AM
How about these gems: SOUND DROPPED out DURING SHOW SOUND DROPPED to DEAD SILENCE SONY DEFINATELY DOES SUCK Anybody got more???
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Mark Ogden
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posted 05-30-1999 03:22 AM
The favorite around here: STILL DON'T DO SHIT !!!!
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Brad Miller
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posted 05-30-1999 03:22 AM
The original is perhaps still the best: Shitty Dynamic Digital Sound ...but I think I will start using some of the newer ones here, for a change. People ask me why it is that I have every possible sound format in my
screening room except for SDDS. (mono, Dolby A, Dolby SR, 35mm mag,
70mm mag, DTS, SRD...and even CDS digital) Hmmm, do I really need to
answer that?
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Scott Norwood
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posted 05-30-1999 03:23 AM
Heh...I think that Brad's screening room would benefit more from the
installation of a Vitaphone system than an SDDS processor. *grin*
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Joe Redifer
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posted 05-30-1999 03:23 AM
Can you imagine if Warner Bros released "The Jazz Singer" in SDDS instead
of Vitaphone on October 6, 1927? The sound would keep dropping out,
clicking from the "high quality" main track to the low quality back up track,
etc etc etc... Imagine if that was everybody's first impression with movie
sound...We would still be showing silent films today!!
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Brad Miller
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posted 05-30-1999 03:24 AM
Hmmm, good idea! Think I'll run out and set that up. I'll bet there would be
less pops and ticks in the phonograph record than the amount of times the
SDDS would drop in and out of the secondary fallback (lower quality) digital
track or to analog. haha
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Joe Redifer
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posted 05-30-1999 03:24 AM
This is stretching it, but how about this:
SHOULD'VE got DOLBY DIGITAL, STUPID!
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-01-1999 03:18 PM
My GM loves SDDS. She tries to make us play all the prints that go into the big houses in SDDS. We just play them in DTS anyway.I told her that 007-19 wasn't supposed to play in SDDS but she scheduled it into an SDDS house anyway. When the soundtrack started dropping out there were about 9,000,000 calls for bad sound. I just shut the processor off so even if they threaded the reader it wouldn't play in digital. SOMEBODY kept turning it back on. She keeps putting Sleepy Hollow and Double Jeopardy in SDDS houses too. They aren't even SDDS prints! I think she does it becasue she knows they're DTS prints and doesn't want them to play in DTS. (Jazz Singerphobia, I think!) She just frustrates me when she does that!
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Brad Miller
Administrator
Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 12-02-1999 03:55 AM
Ran a trade screening yesterday and the DTS discs weren't ready so I ran it in SDDS. The pre-screening went fine, no dropouts. I even ran a QC on the print and it was an "excellent" track throughout. During the actual screening for the studio people and bookers, the damn thing started it's random spazzing fit! Of all the times!!! I went to SR and hooked the laptop up to QC the track again. When I ran the QC again, it reported the same perfect track as there was before...but alas, it was srill dropping out! That's just great...SDDS made us look bad.What a piece of junk! So I power down and decide to leave it off for about 5 minutes...waiting for a quiet dialogue scene. One comes about 10 minutes later so I repower up and viola...no dropouts for the remainder of the film. If I was to run that exact same print for a regular engagement, I'd be willing to bet it would run flawlessly for a good month, spazz out during a random show (as it always does), and run fine for another month. What a piece of junk! I mean really...what a piece of JUNK!!! Somebody please take these damn things to the dumpster!!! DTS and SRD has never and I do mean NEVER given me problems...plus they're cheaper, they sound better and there are more prints with those tracks. It's no wonder Lucasfilm, Fox and the TAP representative demanded Phantom Menace NOT be run in SDDS for the trade screening. At least someone there knows what's going on. Who's making these purchasing decisions???
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