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Author Topic: Party Pooper Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-30-2002 06:46 PM                        It's not midnight yet...even in the East. You stated that we had until May 1st. Yet Ted, Take note: My very final unless I change my mind by midnight is 135 only because they are very odd. Remember they go to  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-30-2002 06:53 PM                     Sorry Bob, there were 2 posts made on the forum this afternoon about an "official" count per the media. I didn't want people to cheat by editing their posts, assuming that number is right.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-30-2002 07:01 PM                     Ted...if you're reading this thread: What's that you're wearing in your photo??? Is that like some kind of superhero get-up? You look like you're just about to swing into action...or something. ------------------ And, hey! Let's be careful out there. ~Manny.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-30-2002 07:56 PM                        No apoligise are necessary. It is all a plot of our friend George to confuse the issue. You and I know they have gotton to most of our members. They have met and been concoured by the pods. We must get the word out.......Do not fall asleep, they are here.....we must call Washington....Sorry Sir that line is busy.....please call back....oh,no..in the words of the immortal fly....help me.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 04-30-2002 08:06 PM                    sorry about that I totaly forgot about the contest when I posted that thread. I know good and well that there has to be more screens than that with digital projectors. Sounds to me like the source just compiled a old list of theaters that had the systems and assumed that they were the only ones playing it.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Haney Master Film Handler Posts: 265 From: Cupertino, CA, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 05-01-2002 02:12 AM                     All of the media accounts seem to be getting their information from this Wired Magazine article, which doesn't sound very authoritative to me. All they did was provide a list of the current 19 digital installations in the US. Ted had already mentioned the number 19 in the previous thread. Also in the previous thread, several people were discussing what sounded like new DLP installations being done in time for the release. Presumably, those new installtions would not be on the Wired list. So, I think the 19 figure is bogus.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-01-2002 09:43 AM                        It's likely that some members of Film-Tech are actively involved in new installations prior to May 16. We haven't seen or heard much from a few members lately because they are likely "scrambling" to get things up and running. My guess was 138 because Mr. Lucas likes the number 1138 (as in THX-1138). I think 1138 installations for US and Canada are very unlikely (even if subsidized), so I settled on 138 as a "reasonable" guess. ------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243 e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-01-2002 10:14 AM                    That sounds logical there John since Lucas used that number on the license plate on the yellow hotrod in American Graffiti. THX-138  |  IP: Logged

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