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Topic: SDDS Staying or Going ?
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Glenn Conatser
Film Handler
Posts: 73
From: Northern California
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 01-28-2002 10:22 PM
I keep hearing rumors that SDDS is not supporting their product anymore and there wont be a SDDS soundtrack on films before to long and that there going under.I personally dont care for the sound of SDDS or its reliability. I only have one of three working. Of all three formats on the market it seems to have the most problems on top of having the worst location on the film. Where in the middle of a retrofit and remodel and im hoping i wont have to deal with SDDS anymore !!! Thanks
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James R. Hammonds, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 931
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 01-28-2002 11:45 PM
I dont know if any other state has a law like the one AAron mentioned in California, but they have been on the raod lately doing refurbishments on the 3000 units.
John Luttrelle and company were just at my theatre over the weekend doing the refurbishments on our units.
I havent actually been working during normal opening hours since this weekend as I was doing overnights with them, so I havent been able to walk around too much to check out how they are working, but we havent had any complaints from the floor or upstairs, so everything seems to be looking up.
If they were on the way out, it doesnt seem they would be doing this, but then again, they could be trying to save themselves.
Considering the guys seemed really optomistic, it doesnt seem that they are in much danger.BTW, John is a great guy and fun to work with.
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Darren Crimmins
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 130
From: Dallas, TX, USA
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 01-29-2002 03:25 AM
I have been working with the SDDS systems for a few years now, and I am not suprised if they get totally faded out from the theater system. As most all projectionists who have worked with them, unless the LED's aren't just calibrated right, they only work sparatically (sp). When screening movies, I used to order new reels when there were significant dropouts, but now I must remember which of my houses the SDDS actually works in. It is a bitch. I can't believe that the SDDS system is actually more expensive than alternatives, and still companies purchace them.
This Thursday people from Sony are supposed to come to my theater to fix any problems that we may be having with specific systems (basically all of them). This is the first time anyone has come to a theater I was at to service them. At a previous theater chain I worked at the 'tech', known as J.D.R. was supposed to come out and service ours, but that is for a different thread...
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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster
Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-29-2002 10:56 AM
From what I've heard you'll have to take your Sony processor into a regular Sony Service Center to get it repaired. Weather they'll send it to a central place on the west coast with a tech that only repairs SDDS, or let each repair depot repair them I don't know. All I can say is that if each depot handles them, good luck! I was a tech in a Panasonic Depot for over 5 years. All the techs there repaired everything, one of the techs left there and went to a Sony repair Center and it was ll handled the same way. IN most of these operations the techs have to work on everything. Techs are rated by number of repairs, vs. hours worked, vs. re-do's. So output is important. My average number of repairs when I worked there was 14 per day. That included Pocket cassette recorders, color tv's, video tape players, stereo equipment(both high and low end),microwaves, vacuum cleaners, and CB radios. So one can just imagine if they are handling it this way, that the tech that works on your 3000 processor had just completed a Boom Box on his previous repair. Thats Sony, No Baloney! Doesn't matter to us at GTS much as we never supported or pushed this junk on any of our customers anyway.
Mark @ GTS
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 01-29-2002 11:30 AM
Ok Aaron, please provide the document that proves your statement regarding SDDS' demise not being rumors!Is SDDS in a shakey position? Sure. Will it die someday, quite possibly. Is it dead yet? Nope. And there are still more 8-channel films in the works than EX. Now with Dan Taylor gone, I suspect that the 8-channel future is in question...further leading to the possibility of an eventual demise of the format. Why does this BS topic keep coming up when it has ben rehashed in other threads? Everyone has opinions here and more power to you. But to state something as fact or in a manner to make someone believe it is fact (when it is merely an opinion) is in FACT wrong! Steve ------------------
"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
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Will Kutler
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1506
From: Tucson, AZ, USA
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 01-29-2002 04:43 PM
My experience has been that SDDS is the least reliable of all the digital formats.Unlike SRD and DTS, the theater chain for whom I used to work had to pay for SDDS trailer snipes, so they quit running them! The drop-out rate on SDDS systems is excessive. I also had a screwey...very screwey Christie/SDDS system that would want to play an ocasional SDDS print in digital when set to the SR mode and vice versa!
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on all this? Not that it's any worry for me.....but apparently some are sweating it out over this.
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