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Manny Knowles
"What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???"

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 - posted 05-28-2002 09:23 AM      Profile for Manny Knowles   Email Manny Knowles   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Is there any truth to the rumor that Sony cut a special deal with AMC?

I heard that AMC got all those SDDS players for some ridiculously low price (like $100 each) and their screen count alone put SDDS on the map.

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Christopher Duvall
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I do not know the details, but it is true. They have been using SDDS for quite some time. I am pretty sure John P. may be able to dig up the details somewhere...


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Mark Lucas
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I think AMC also has a deal on ceiling fans, cheap speakers that are mounted near the ceiling and those Torus screens that suck.

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John Pytlak
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Here's information from the Sony SDDS website:
http://www.sdds.com/tech/engserv/insidetrack02.pdf

And AMC's:
http://www.amctheatres.com/about/firsts.html

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Bobby Henderson
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 - posted 05-28-2002 07:03 PM      Profile for Bobby Henderson   Email Bobby Henderson   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Sony has cut deals with other circuits as well. Some of their most aggressive dealings came in 1995 with companies like United Artists buying a lot of SDDS units at very seriously discounted prices.

If I remember right, Sony even ran a pricing special for "Batman Forever" where SDDS units cost $6,000 instead of the normal $15,000. Dolby ran a similar pricing special for Dolby Digital on their then-just-relased DA-20/Cat No. 700 reader packages. I can't remember if that special was just for "Batman Forever" or if it applied to new installations showing "Crimson Tide" as well.

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