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Thomas Hauerslev
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From: Copenhagen, Denmark
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 - posted 01-30-2001 08:35 AM      Profile for Thomas Hauerslev   Author's Homepage   Email Thomas Hauerslev   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Does anyone know any FACTS (not opinions!) about the SDDS 70mm camera/printer and projector reader? I have tried to get in touch with Dan Tayler a few times but have not had any luck - so far.

The best from, Thomas
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John Pytlak
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 - posted 01-30-2001 09:23 AM      Profile for John Pytlak   Author's Homepage   Email John Pytlak   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I have not seen anything about a 70mm version. I assume you have looked through the entire Sony SDDS website?:
http://www.sdds.com/tech/engserv/index.html

Dan Taylor is at: dan_taylor@scpc.sony.com

Al Barton is at: al.barton@am.sony.com

Bill Mead is at: bill_mead@scpc.sony.com

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Brad Miller
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 - posted 01-30-2001 01:45 PM      Profile for Brad Miller   Author's Homepage   Email Brad Miller       Edit/Delete Post 
This would indeed be great news for the 70mm format if a second digital company produced a reader. Is this a definite, as in is Sony already "in the works" on a 70mm reader, or just hopeful speculation?

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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 01-30-2001 01:59 PM      Profile for Scott Norwood   Author's Homepage   Email Scott Norwood   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
If this is indeed true, then let's just hope that DTS-70 and the (currently non-existant) SDDS-70 formats aren't mutually exclusive. It would indeed be a good thing for 70mm if it were possible to make a dual-format digital print (which would offer some redundancy as well), but it would be a real shame if the format suffered a "perf-area turf war" between SDDS and DTS, forcing either dual-inventory prints or requiring theatres wishing to present 70mm prints to be equipped with three separate and incompatable sound formats (SDDS, DTS, mag, plus 35mm optical, etc.).

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Brad Miller
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Surely Sony will use the outer edges of the film on 70mm just like they have with 35mm. It would be foolish to occupy the same area of the film that the dts timecode track does, and with all of the space on the edges, there really would be no reason to.

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Gordon McLeod
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DTS is already occupping the outboard side outside the perfs

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Brad Miller
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 - posted 01-31-2001 09:36 AM      Profile for Brad Miller   Author's Homepage   Email Brad Miller       Edit/Delete Post 
Yeah, but it's against the sprockets. There should still be enough room for SDDS to chime in beside.

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Stefan Scholz
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From: Schoenberg, Germany
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 - posted 02-01-2001 02:10 AM      Profile for Stefan Scholz   Author's Homepage   Email Stefan Scholz   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
The math is done,long time ago, and it works. Industry response was zero. AFAIK anybody with real interest could contact Sony Culver City, and push progress on it's way. There must be reasonable request from the industry side to (re-)start the projects.
Not just afe releases a decade.
It would be great to reprint all those spectacular classics in 8 Track 70 mm, with the original phase sterweophonic tracks intact, the film buff's point.

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