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Author Topic: new Pearl Harbor DTS disks?!? Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-08-2001 10:17 PM                        Did anyone else get a set of Pearl Harbor disks in the mail today from Technicolor/Airborne for no apparent reason? To make things more confusing, we have two prints, but only one set of disks arrived in the mail. You'd think they would include a note or something explaining why they are sending something that we already have. Does anyone know what's up?  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-08-2001 10:29 PM                     We didn't. Must have been a cross-up of mailing. Did anyone else get new disks?  |  IP: Logged David Baum Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Aug 2000 posted 06-08-2001 10:47 PM                    could this explain why the soundtrack has been often criticized ? defectuous recording/encoding ?  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-08-2001 11:09 PM                     David, it is possible. But what difference does it make? The movie is almost dead anyway. Maybe Scott can answer that, if he used his new discs.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-08-2001 11:18 PM                     I wonder if these discs actually have the THX logos on them. Can someone put it in a cdrom drive and read the text file?  |  IP: Logged Christopher Duvall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Denver, CO Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-09-2001 04:20 AM                     One of our prints had bad discs. When reel 2 hit the screen we lost the sound and it dropped back to analog. Reel 2 had time code on it and we tried using discs from one of the other Pearl prints and it worked fine. Disney may have had a bad batch of discs replicated and they are sending out new ones. Just a theory... ------------------ Chris Duvall General Manager Regal Cinemas Colonnade14 Las Vegas, NV  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-10-2001 08:56 PM                        The serial number on the new disks is "2545" (same as the old ones). There are no THX trailers listed in the text file, although both new and old (and apparently identical) disks list the THX trailers on the front of the disk.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-11-2001 12:02 PM                     I haven't seen the disks myself, but wouldn't the serial number of the new disks need to be the same as the originals? IF it's different, wouldn't the DTS player think the wrong disks are in the player? Thus, if there IS something different about the soundtrack you might not be able to tell unless you did an A/B comparison of them. Maybe a comparison of the two sets on a computer would tell you if there is a difference. Then, again, judging by what company makes the disks anything could be possible. I just think there was a problem with the original burn and these are probably "fixed" copies.  |  IP: Logged Karen Hultgren Master Film Handler Posts: 492 From: Agoura Hills, CA, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-11-2001 06:29 PM                        Scott, There is no reason why you got another set of discs. No changes have been made to release discs. Karen at DTS  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-11-2001 09:33 PM                        Thanks, Karen. It was probably just a shipping error. We'll return the second set of disks with one of the prints.  |  IP: Logged

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