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Topic: Digital sound for arthouses? YES!
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Bob Peticolas
Film Handler
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From: Mesilla, New Mexico
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 06-25-2003 01:35 PM
Just as a point for comparison, out of our bi-monthly calendar, we run nine films (one a week) and at least seven of the nine are SRD. Occasionally we will get a film with DTS and at least twice a year we will get disks with a film (even though we don't have a DTS player).
We just installed new speakers throughout the house, three Crown stereo amps and wired for 5.1. The .1 speaker is on the way. I hope to install a Dolby reader by the end of the year.
About the only films we get that don't have at least matrixed stereo are the "classics" from the '60s and '70s.
The current calendar has films from Scotland, France, Australia, Brazil, Italy, Germany, and Iran. That's a lot of SRD from around the world.
And, if you do get a print with bad Dolby coding, run it in optical, there's always that option. That's why we preview features.
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Stephen Furley
Film God
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 06-25-2003 06:03 PM
Most of the 'Arthouse' type prints I see seem to have SR-D, DTS is much less common, and SDDS rare, I can't actually think of a title at the moment, but I think I have seen some. I have to say that I don't get to see as many prints as I used to.
I am certainly not opposed to an arthouse theatre installing digital if they can find the money, but I think this should be the last thing they do. If they already have a good analogue sound system, good accoustics in the auditorium, good lenses, comfortable seating, good lamps, good screen etc. and there is money to spare, then go ahead, and install digital. If not, then The money would be better spent improving these other things first. No point in listening to digital sound from poor speakers while sitting in a bad seat watching the film on an old, dirty screen.
Digital sound for arthouses? Maybe. How much does it cost now? I remember when first launched it was expensve, but with greater production voumes, the much reduced component count of the DA-20 compared with the DA-10, and the elimination of the separate power supply needed with the original readers, I would guess it has come down quite a bit in real terms.
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Per Hauberg
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 883
From: Malling, Denmark
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 06-25-2003 07:10 PM
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I think that Amelie was the last art-house film that I've seen that was available in DTS (timecode and disks).
Amelie a n d Gosford - the latter so dirty a print, that srd falls out very often, analog track even more damagaed - and the smaller arthouse distributors in Denmark do not support dts. -I was luckcy, being able to have dics send on loan from dts England - Thanks again, David - . BTW exactly these two titles, i think were hearable better in dts than srd.
As the prints (at least here) er normally very few, the wear is so much worse than mainstream-films, before they get all around, at so much more reason to go for dts to secure good presentation, also out here, where not even the coyote comes araound every month (far out !)
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