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Author Topic: 5 Dolby CP650 processors stolen Mike Babb Master Film Handler Posts: 250 From: Norwich UK Registered: Jul 2002 posted 10-18-2005 07:39 PM                        In case the film-tech community is offered any great deals on them, or you happen to see them on Ebay or wherever else... 5 were stolen Monday night/Tuesday morning from the MJR 20 construction site in Sterling Heights, Michigan, along with 2 Ashly FTX2001 series 3 amps. They were screwed into the racks but otherwise not yet wired. By tomorrow I should have a complete list of serial numbers. Any leads you have please send them to me or contact the Sterling Heights police. Thanks! And yes, they installed the doors with locks on the booth today finally...  |  IP: Logged Andy Summers Master Film Handler Posts: 397 From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-18-2005 07:50 PM                 What the fuck, this happened with another cinema where some jokers where nicking the screen speaker LF drivers, this is queer…. Well it’s not going to too difficult to get the Dolby CP-650 units up and running who ever nicked them, what nerve.... Sterling Heights police what’s the link to there police station, seeing these units can be sold anywhere on the face of the planet…. I say It was, someone in the community that knew they layout of the cinema very well, someone that likes Dolby CP-650 better than there own home theatre, get the picture, yes it’s properly a home theatre owner, a sad one if I might add… Who ever sales them on the Ebay, so soon is one can short of a six pack, and now the cat is out of the bag no one is going to try and sale them hear, on the street will be my guess, and whoever attempts to sale them so quickly will slip up… I’ll keep my ears and eyes peeled, is there a reward for the property to be retuned. So I take it this cinema is not up and running, otherwise some prints would have gone walkies…. Motion detection and pressure mats have been installed.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 10-18-2005 08:11 PM                        We supplied replacement units; shipped today. Dolby delivery is 6 weeks at present. Luckily we had additional in stock. Whoever did this took the accessory pack for the units. They were not stored together. My guess is that he knew exactly what he was doing. Louis  |  IP: Logged Mike Babb Master Film Handler Posts: 250 From: Norwich UK Registered: Jul 2002 posted 10-18-2005 08:19 PM                        Yes I forgot to mention, Louis saved us as far as having them on opening date. Thanks! And yes I think they will turn up in a theatre again, one way or another so I figure film-tech has global reach.  |  IP: Logged Andy Summers Master Film Handler Posts: 397 From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-18-2005 08:20 PM                 A projectionist surly not, unless he or she needs the money, like I said if those units where sold so quickly the police will be on them like a ton of bricks.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 10-19-2005 07:40 AM                     Yes, please list the serial numbers. If possible, see if Dolby can provide serial numbers of the individual cards. If the thiefs realize people are looking for the chassis number, they may try to 'part it out.' After all, they probably read F-T too. Usually, it's the speakers you have to watch out for construction site. I mean, you have to watch everything but especially the speakers.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-19-2005 08:15 AM                     The serial numbers may be imbedded in the unit's software permanently so the thieves may never be ab;e to get rid of them. This happened to a theatre I serviced up in Wisconsin although this theatre location up and running a couple of years before it happened. I somewhat felt that the theatres owners were the thieves themselves in order to collect insurance money and also keep the stuff for their next location. I was also the one that got to replace it all so I made the nice tidy profit! Oddly, I didn't win the bid for that next location for some odd reason..... Mark  |  IP: Logged Andy Summers Master Film Handler Posts: 397 From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-19-2005 12:39 PM                 Mark' Personally I think there lumped with the units, and what’s to say there not reading what’s on this site, I’ve cheeked around on the Ebay to see if there’s any Dolby CP-650’s nothing as of yet, if there smart they’ll stay low till the heat calms down, that’s may guess. Also those units alone have got to be around £12.000 pounds easily, so black market around £7.000.00 to £9.000.00 that’s still easy cash for those vultures…  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-19-2005 06:57 PM                     Today Salt Lake Police foiled a major theft ring.... they caught a local lady sending stolen goods, VCR,s TV,s cameras, computers, etc to Ghana. I bet they will end up some place like that. The thing that raised the red flag was that she got anywhere from 50 to 75 boxes delivered a day by UPS to her home..... UPS tipped off the cops and they caught her red handed.... Mark  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-19-2005 07:07 PM                     I would be surprised if the serial numbers are part of the unit since all of the cards are changable...the MAC address of the ethernet port will follow the mother board better than the serial number of the chassis.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-19-2005 07:52 PM                     quote: Mark Gulbrandsen Today Salt Lake Police foiled a major theft ring.... they caught a local lady sending stolen goods, VCR,s TV,s cameras, computers, etc to Ghana. I bet they will end up some place like that. Stolen cars, electronics and anything else fence-able is getting shipped more often to overseas markets. Some of this is due in part to our very deplorable low levels of port security. I'm surprised terrorists haven't tried to re-enact the plotline from "The Sum of All Fears" to bomb an American city. The plan could actually work. Just ship it in through a sea port -or have some folks carry parts by hand across the Mexican border. Those Dolby CP650 units will probably be in some Chinese movie theater before the end of the month.  |  IP: Logged Andy Summers Master Film Handler Posts: 397 From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-19-2005 08:45 PM                 Bugger I didn’t know the Chinese where hard up for western technology. Is the manual in Chinese…?  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-19-2005 10:11 PM                        How come no security guard during the construction phase, before a security system is installed?  |  IP: Logged Chris Trainor Expert Film Handler Posts: 161 From: Greenville, RI, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-19-2005 10:11 PM                        Most Chinese can read English perfectly fine. --Chris  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 10-20-2005 08:47 AM                     None of the sites that I have been on ever had security. I've had plenty of tools and stuff stolen before. The only piece of equipment I have ever had stolen was a subwoofer. Guess I'm lucky. These bastards have nothing better to do than this. Hope to hell they find these people.  |  IP: Logged

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