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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 12-27-1999 05:41 PM

Well it's been about 10 years now since the demise of CDS...but prints are STILL AROUND!

Terminator 2 is to show this coming weekend at the Granada Prestonwood in 70mm...and Technicolor sent them a CDS print! The original "NFS/Highway films" stamp was still on the cans from a theater in Dayton Ohio where it played last...and it's ashamed it's a CDS print because it was in lab mint condition!!! (Kudos goes to the projectionists there at the time *or* a shameful finger is twitched at the CDS format for failing them on opening weekend forcing the use of the backup print.)

Anyone know of a 70mm/CDS equipped theater still around with everything set up? I can't imagine how bad the odds would be on such a thing...so off to the junking pile this perfect condition print will go.

(P.S. the theater will still be running the title in 70mm mag this weekend.)

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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
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posted 12-27-1999 11:05 PM

Well, the folks at Boston Light & Sound have a fully-functional CDS system in storage...

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Brad Miller
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posted 12-27-1999 11:58 PM

...and I'm sure it will forever remain there.

Perhaps they can set aside the space on the shelf beside it for a fully functional SDDS unit too.

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John Walsh
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From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
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posted 12-28-1999 05:18 PM

"Well, the folks at Boston Light & Sound have a fully-functional CDS system in storage..."

"Perhaps they can set aside the space on the shelf beside it for a fully functional SDDS unit too."

"... and tonight on History Mysteries....

It used to be the digital sound system of a major studio and corporation, but then the crowds lost interest and they went to landfills everywhere. Here on the History Channel we finally find the last SDDS unit at the Podunk Theater in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Stay Tuned!....."

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Gordon McLeod
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From: Toronto Ontario Canada
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posted 01-04-2000 11:10 PM

There is a VistaScope theatre that uses CDS

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Joe Redifer
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From: Denver, Colorado
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posted 01-05-2000 12:58 AM

And they use it how? They get their prints from where? Curious.

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Mark Lensenmayer
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From: Upper Arlington, OH
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 01-05-2000 08:23 PM

Brad,
Do you happen to know what Dayton theatre this was from? I don't know of any Dayton house with CDS. I'm quite sure none played any 70mm version of TII. I know the New Neon shows 70mm sometimes, and I wonder if they got the print when they requested a 70mm version, so they couldn't show it either. (New Neon is the Cinerama house, that gets lots of help from John Harvey).

Mark L.

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Chris Erwin
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From: Olive Hill,KY
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 01-05-2000 09:04 PM

...and I'm sure it will forever remain there.
Perhaps they can set aside the space on the shelf beside it for a fully functional SDDS unit too.

Isn't that an oxymoron? Fully functional and SDDS?

--Chris

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
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posted 01-05-2000 09:31 PM

It wasn't the New Neon Movies. I would've remembered that. I'm sure the print has long been picked up by now or I would call over and ask them to check the label. I DO know it had an old 1991 shipping date on it to Dayton, Ohio. Technicolor's print number was #6, if anyone is interested. They have 5 magnetic prints of that title as well in inventory.

...and yes, that was an oxymoron. Good eye.

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Gordon McLeod
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From: Toronto Ontario Canada
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posted 01-06-2000 09:47 AM

Vista Scope used a modified DP70 pulling 8perf operation with CDS sound
Ithink there is still one in the Atlanta area

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