Now, we are running INTERNATIONAL VERSION discs as they've changed a song in the credits or something...I don't know why, but that's why we aren't using the normal DOMESTIC VERSION discs.

I threw a disc in the PC and found that there was no reel 4 on disc B nor was it on disc A for that matter. I called UIP and informed the print controller who said 'thank God!' to which I replied 'Huh??' She then added that she had been getting complaints that the 'DTS didn't work on AP2' but that was all she was being told. I asked her if by chance there were any DOMESTIC VERSIONS in the country and she sent them straight out. I found reel four on them and got Michael Barry (proud owner of a new CDrom burner ) and asked him to make a composite disc of INTERNATIONAL and include the reel four file. He did this today and dropped them back in tonight before the 9.30 show (full house 840 people) and it ran without a hitch.

So with many thanks to Michael, The Randwick Ritz Cinema is now the only cinema in all of Australia running the entire print in DTS. I think we should put that in the newspaper ads.

Maybe DTS will re-issue the discs and this time include reel four...I asked the print controller if she would like a copy of the corrected disc so she could rectify it for other locations, but for some reason she seemed quite disinterested.

Never thought about the impact of Photoguard on the SRD track... that's a major downfall.

All it would take is for dts to get the ok from the studios and to mail me one disc of every release that comes out. As time went by, I could also offer temporary downloads upon request for people who got in a repertory print and no discs. I do get broken or scratched discs from time to time and with recent events like the "Shallow Hal" and new B disc for "Monsters Inc", it could save a lot of people from a bad show.

I've got the storage and bandwidth to make it work, but I don't think the studios realize the number of people who could use such a service. How many other people have had a defective or missing disc in whatever capacity over the last year?

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I like your idea, but I think that it will not have success because:

1. Theaters must have a fast internet connection (xdsl or faster)
2. Theaters should have someone able to use a computer
3. Theaters should be very careful with "film done right". I think that few theaters would spend time to download and burn a copy of DTS files of the new film...

Bye
Antonio

I think that it could be a good idea just for few people, perhaps for us "film-techers" that want to "make film better".

With a 640kbit ADSL we can get 80kbyte/s with best condition.
A two set DTS disk are 1300MB at maximum.
Let's have that you can download at 80KB/s.
You will spend 4,62 hours to download all files.
Let's say (suppose that you work in a multiplex) that you need two different movie: 9,24 hours.

I don't say that it is impossibile, just that it is unlikely that a theater owner decide to download DTS files from internet. At least the theatre managers that I know...

However, if you decide to put DTS disks image on the internet, pls do not forget the Italian version...

As Snow White may have said: "Someday my (digital) prints will come".

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As for data storage: the cheapest way to ship 40-gig files would be on a single DLT tape. These tapes cost about $70 apiece (less in quantity, of course) and weigh a couple of pounds. Sending a DLT tape overnight via Fedex should be well under $100. There's no way that data networks can come anywhere near that range for price per gigabyte. Also, having multiple DLT drives in the theatre would provide redundancy, whereas it is highly unlikely that a theatre would have multiple T3 lines to the distributor (which would have to be point-to-point lines...not Internet connections...for reliability and security reasons).

We always have spare discs on-hand. So, if you need replacement discs, first call the film distribuator and if they don't have any, let me know and I'll do my best to get them for you.