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Author Topic: The Tailor of Panama Soundtrack Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 06-24-2001 09:03 AM                     I have seen this film twice in 2 different theatres, The first Dolby Digital and the second Dolby Digital EX. The film is supposed to have an EX mix but on both occasions I failed to notice virturlly any surround effects at all. Has anyone else seen this print and would like to comment? I also found that on both the occasions the image was very grany mostly in the first reel. ------------------ ------------------ Michael Brown Bradford Student Cinema www.Bradfordstudentcinema.co.uk  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-24-2001 12:00 PM                        I've heard most people describe the mix to this movie as big, flat mono. Does the studio advertise this in EX? If they did, they are doing everybody a disservice.  |  IP: Logged Rick Long Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 759 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 06-24-2001 02:56 PM                     The tails of the film usually indicate the digital formats available for the print. When are they going to indicate whether or not the print is EX encoded as well?  |  IP: Logged Lee Davies Film Handler Posts: 28 From: Bolton, England Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-24-2001 09:59 PM                     When we ran this a couple of weeks ago the labels on the reel cases said it was a SR / SDDS print, which I figured was right as it is a Columbia film. However upon closer inspection there was a SRD track too. "Good" I thought so it wont be in SR. And just to confuse things a bit more, on the end credits it does in fact say "Dolby Digital Surround-EX". When will we ever get the right information, eh? What happened to the idea of labelling the cases so it was easier to tell what was EX encoded?? Just my 2p's worth! Lee  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 06-25-2001 08:04 AM                     Yup the credits identify the film as having Dolby Digital Surround EX, no mention of Sony. And its sounds like crappy mono. Did anybody run this in SDDS.  |  IP: Logged

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