Two of the reels did not play in digital sound (maybe 3 and 5 -- I know there was one between the two that did not play in digital). I mentioned this to the manager on the way out and he told me that those two reels did not play in Dolby Digital and seemed to indicate that those reels did not have a DD soundrack. I'm sure if this were the case that someone here would have mentioned it in the Trailers and attachments forum or in here somewhere. He even said, "I don't know why they did that, unless they just ran out of money or something."

Can someone here please verify that this movie has the DD soundtrack on all reels?

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

Although I think Jay and Silent Bob is released by Miramax, who's films usually have an SR-D track. So, maybe that manager is covering up a problem. We didn't get it, so I can't verify.

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Evans: Either it drops out of digital at the reel changes or the theater got bad reels. Sounds like the manager doesn't want to check it out.

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It definitely dropped out of digital at a reel change and went back to digital at the next reel change, then dropped out again at the next, and came back at the next. I saw the reel change cue marks before each drop/comeback.

I was going to fill out the form on the THX WWW site (1-800-PHONE_THX equivalent), but "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" was not a listed movie for this service.

I tend to believe at this point that the theatre must have gotten some misprinted reels. On my quality review, I gave the theatre the benefit of the doubt since I have seen no pattern of such problems in this auditorium before.

There was one oddity with this presentation that may be unrelated to the sound problem, but I'll mention it anyway, just in case. Some flat trailers were played, then the scoep changeover occurred and after the changeover, the aperture plate was out of whack, showing the DTS timecode and part of the soundtrack beyond the left screen edge, and part of the right edge of the image was being cropped. THe imag ealso went out of focus at the scope changeover. I went out and told them (since I did not want to watch the movie this way and I didn't want the other Jay and Silent Bob fans to have to watch it that way either) and the problems were quickly corrected. There was no sound interruption at these points, so I assume this to be unrelated to the DD dropouts/comebacks at reel splices.

This theatre has been well-maintained and the presentation quality has remained high since it opened in 1998, so I'm not going to be harsh on this theatre until I see more of a pattern of problems develop.

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

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It could take a few showings to recognize there's a problem with either the print or the sound system. They might of had to screen the feature in a different house than the one it opened in, so wouldn't notice a system problem. Although, now that they know they should get it resolved quickly.

Evans; for a litte test, you might go there again very soon to see if it's been fixed. I think is very fair to give them a bit of a break, since that theater's past reputation has been good.

Although the sound negative carries all four tracks (analog, Dolby Digital, SDDS, and DTS), separately controlled light sources are usually used on the printer. So the printer light for one of the tracks could have malfunctioned for one or two reels. Looking at the print itself would answer the question.

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