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Author Topic: DTS/SR track differences on Polar Express Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 11-13-2004 11:42 AM                     Here's a question... How come in our DTS house the Polar Express has a voice-over of Tom Hanks asking for tickets (just like a little later on) before the studio logos but in the SR track there's silence? Has anyone noticed it in the other 2 digital formats or is my dts unit on the frits?  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 11-13-2004 12:46 PM                     Is the voice-over during a black screen? Maybe someone cut it off before the studio logo on your other print. (You said it was the one in the DTS house, so I'm assuming it's another print) Check the other print to see if Tom Hanks asks for the tickets after Racing Stripes but before your Policy trailer. Also, is the voice-over coming from the front or from the surrounds? Maybe one of your channels isn't working in SR for some reason. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 11-13-2004 04:18 PM                     Also are you sure it sounds like it's supposed to be there? I've seen DTS units play a random snippet of sound from later in the movie right at the beginning of the feature or a trailer, then jump to where they're supposed to be.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-13-2004 05:47 PM                     Any bet you have some spurious time code on the section of film preceeding the feature  |  IP: Logged Antonio Marcheselli Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1260 From: Florence, Italy Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-15-2004 12:06 PM                        I had ONCE a problem like this. Between a DTS logo and a THX the player (6D) played one moment of the "Bounty" THX trailer (seemed to me)... Never happened again and no extraneous timecode between the logos, just spliced toghether... Bye A  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 11-15-2004 04:50 PM                     Sorry for being so vauge. Both prints are uncut from the head (after the racing stripes trailer which was removed previously). Each contain the same amount of black film. The voice-over is in the correct, center, chanell and the background noise is wherever.  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 11-15-2004 05:14 PM                     Swap the prints and see if the problem repeats itself in different auditoriums.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 11-16-2004 02:23 PM                     I intend to do that tomorrow before the first show. No one else has noticed this in their DTS houses? Strange indeed it is.  |  IP: Logged Ryan Gardner Smith Film Handler Posts: 4 From: Albuquerque, NM USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 11-17-2004 04:43 AM                        I know that that voice over did NOT appear when I ran it in an SRD house. I believe we have a print running in an SDDS house and a DTS house, I'm so curious I'm going to check both of them tomorrow.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 11-22-2004 12:03 PM                     Well, we swapped the prints last week with the same result. Strange indeed.  |  IP: Logged Adam Wilbert Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 590 From: Bellingham, WA, USA Registered: Mar 2002 posted 11-22-2004 08:17 PM                        I doubt that it is just a coincidence that a freaked out timecode happened to pull up the "tickets please" dialog. It sounds pretty intentional and appropriate before the feature starts.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 11-23-2004 06:03 PM                     That was my original reaction. The question is, why is it only on the DTS track? Has anyone else noticed it in their DTS houses?  |  IP: Logged

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