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Richard Miller
Film Handler

Posts: 33
From: Lafayette, IN, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 10-17-2002 05:40 PM

I recieved a print of "The Ring" today and written on the can under the title of the movie was "rear captioned." I was just wondering what this meant (TES didn't know and they printed it!) or if there was anything I should watch for when building it or while running it. Any help would be great.

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Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.

Posts: 3686
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 10-17-2002 06:56 PM

Maybe it means that there are DTS-CSS discs available for that title.

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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 10-17-2002 07:09 PM

Haven't previous posts described a system for the hearing impaired in which captions appear on a LED display board on the rear wall of the theatre, in reversed lettering, readable from mirrors mounted in cup holders? What's it called again?

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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!

Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 10-17-2002 07:48 PM

If I remember correctly, ANY DTS timecoded film regardless of what the leaders say can use the CSS rear-caption system if you use the CSS compatible discs for said title.

-Aaron

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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 10-17-2002 08:01 PM

Gerard has it right,

Rear Captioned film has the dialogue up on a board supplied by Trans-Lux onto a lucite panel which is placed into the cup holder of the seat for the hearing impaired. This was developed by WGBH in Boston and is distributed by our friends at Boston Light & Sound.

The LED Board is mounted on the auditorium side of the booth wall and is picked up by reflection on the lucite panel.

It works great.

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 10-17-2002 08:19 PM

Here are links to more information about rear captioning:
http://ncam.wgbh.org/mopix/
http://ncam.wgbh.org/mopix/aboutproject.html

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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

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Richard Miller
Film Handler

Posts: 33
From: Lafayette, IN, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 10-17-2002 08:57 PM

Thanks for the info. Does this mean that the info is on the DTS discs? If so I wondering why they sent it to us and did not inculde the DTS discs at all with it.

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-17-2002 09:40 PM

The subtitling system uses a different and seperate disk

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Frank Angel
Film God

Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 10-18-2002 01:22 AM

Richard said: >I wondering why they sent it to us and did not inculde the DTS discs at all with it.<

The letters TES say it all.

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Larry Shaw
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 238
From: Boston, MA, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 10-21-2002 05:13 PM

Bob,

We used to be the exclusive distributor of the Rear Window system for several years. We provided marketing, design assistance, installation drawings, tech support, etc. We no longer do this as the circuits essentially said they didn't want any of these services, they just wanted lower prices. We do still manufacture the seat reflectors for the system.

Larry

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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 10-21-2002 07:20 PM

Larry,

Thanks for the information. I stand corrected.

Regards,

Bob

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Karen Hultgren
Master Film Handler

Posts: 492
From: Agoura Hills, CA, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 10-22-2002 06:02 PM

It means that there are rear window captions available for this film. You need the DTS-CSS system and rear display to see the captions.

Karen at DTS
khultgren@dtsonline.com

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Karen Hultgren
Master Film Handler

Posts: 492
From: Agoura Hills, CA, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 10-22-2002 06:05 PM

Richard,

You got the wrong discs! You should get TES to send you the correct discs. The discs you got are for rear window captions only.

Karen at DTS
khultgren@dtsonline.com

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