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Bill Carter
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 162
From: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 10-31-2002 09:54 PM

Has anybody else received a semi-frantic call from Technicolor, ordering them not to play the DTS discs they received with I Spy? They want mine picked up before my first show Friday, and aren't sure when the "new" set will be sent to me.

The discs I have aren't defective... they played fine with 2 sneak preview shows. Perhaps a last minute change?

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Christopher Duvall
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 500
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 11-01-2002 01:59 AM

The discs may old mastered dialogue or sound on them. They may be different from the other sound tracks. Would not be the first time something like this has happened.

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Darryl Spicer
Film God

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From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 11-01-2002 03:20 AM

As far as I know we did not recieve a call today. Nobody told me anything. However, the DTS did drop out in one of the reels for about 2 or 3 minutes. I think it was reel one or two during the video teleconferancing scene I believe. Anyway, that was the only place I noticed it dropping out. There was an interesting little note that came in the film cans. It was talking about how the director, Betty Thomas, really liked the mix of the dolby digital track and wanted theaters to run the film in that format if they had it. Wouldn't you think that the mix would be the same for DTS?

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Brad Miller
Administrator

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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 11-01-2002 04:10 AM

I'll bet just about anything she saw her movie in an SRD theater that had better acoustics and a better B-chain than another place that had dts or sdds and she chalked it up to SRD having a better mix/sound to it.

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Antonio Marcheselli
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1260
From: Florence, Italy
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 11-01-2002 04:24 AM

Brad,

I'll bet too!

Bye
Antonio

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John Hawkinson
Film God

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From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 11-01-2002 08:53 AM

Sony even put it up on their web site:

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PLEASE NOTE: Betty Thomas, the director of I SPY, particularly likes the sound mix of the Dolby Digital (SR-D) track. If the screens in which you are scheduled to open I SPY are equipped with Dolby Digital sound, please make sure you play I SPY using that format. Also please play 1 dB higher from whatever your normal sound level is. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Mark J. Marshall
Film God

Posts: 3188
From: New Castle, DE, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 11-01-2002 09:07 AM

I've been wondering about that for the last week. Our bookings report said that I SPY was *NOT* in SDDS. Huh?? Isn't it a Sony movie? Then we got a fax that said "Please play I SPY in SR*D if your theater is equipped to do so." Then when I built it up and saw that there WAS indeed an SDDS track, I was left scratching my head wondering what's wrong with it. Now I'm hearing here that the DTS disks have to be sent back too? Very curious. Has anyone here listened to the SDDS or DTS tracks yet?

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Darryl Spicer
Film God

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From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 11-01-2002 06:12 PM

I have listened to the DTS and it sounds good to me. Except for that drop out I mentioned above. Buy the way I still have not heard anything about having to send the discs back.

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Jack Ondracek
Film God

Posts: 2348
From: Port Orchard, WA, USA
Registered: Oct 2002

posted 11-01-2002 10:27 PM

No phone calls. However, we also received the fax, advising that we should only run the show in SR-D.

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Les Brock
Film Handler

Posts: 42
From: Basingstoke, Hamshire, UK
Registered: Nov 2001

posted 11-02-2002 05:22 AM

I Spy is in SDDS and is also an 8 Channel mix

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Les Brock
Principal Engineer
SDDS Systems.
Priestley Road Basingstoke,Hants
United Kingdom, RG24 9JP

Phone +44 1256 484924

Les.Brock@sonybpe.com

Website www.sdds.com

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

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From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-02-2002 11:03 PM

Odd since the DTS disks are mastered off the same 5.1 dat that is used to feed the SRD encoder

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David Stambaugh
Film God

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From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 11-03-2002 05:13 PM

The showing of I Spy that I just saw definitely had some problems with the digital sound. I don't know if it was DTS or SR-D though. I noticed the problems starting in reel 4. The sound would occasionally "reverb" for just a split second, like it was repeating something. At other times, it sounded like a few milliseconds of dialog was clipped out and missing - skipping. This continued thru reels 4 & 5. These faults were subtle but definitely there.

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John Pytlak
Film God

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

posted 11-04-2002 02:01 PM

JHawk wrote:

Sony even put it up on their web site:

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PLEASE NOTE: Betty Thomas, the director of I SPY, particularly likes the sound mix of the Dolby Digital (SR-D) track. If the screens in which you are scheduled to open I SPY are equipped with Dolby Digital sound, please make sure you play I SPY using that format. Also please play 1 dB higher from whatever your normal sound level is. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Unusual, especially since the SDDS has an 8-channel mix.

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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: here

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Mark J. Marshall
Film God

Posts: 3188
From: New Castle, DE, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 11-04-2002 02:06 PM

John Pytlack Wrote:

Unusual, especially if the SDDS has an 8-channel mix.

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For the record, I Spy is an 8 channel mix.

OOps. Just noticed this note above. Sorry!

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Karen Hultgren
Master Film Handler

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

posted 11-04-2002 07:17 PM

The I SPY disc was redone to add a trailer. There was no remix done. There was no need for Technicolor to panic. Don't know why they did.

Karen at DTS
khultgren@dtsonline.com

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