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Jon P. Inghram
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 124
From: Wichita, KS USA
Registered: Jan 2007

posted 09-29-2007 05:08 PM

When we sneaked it Thursday night none of the employees who watched it seemed to think it worth mentioning that the sound slightly out of sync on the first reel, and we didn't get any complaints Friday until after it was too late for management to call who-ever to have it replaced.

Anybody else had a problem with this print?

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Chris Slycord
Film God

Posts: 2986
From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea
Registered: Mar 2007

posted 09-29-2007 11:30 PM

Is it the entire movie or just one reel?

Because if the complaint was just happened after one showing I'd believe it to be misthreaded.

And I was in booth yesterday and there were no complaints about this kind of thing.

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Jon P. Inghram
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 124
From: Wichita, KS USA
Registered: Jan 2007

posted 09-30-2007 01:33 AM

It's just the first reel.

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Blaine Young
Master Film Handler

Posts: 477
From: Kirkland, WA, USA
Registered: Sep 2006

posted 09-30-2007 01:40 AM

I'd recommend ordering a replacement reel. We've certainly run into our share of sync problems with SRD soundtracks, and a replacement reel resolves the issue. The last one that comes to mind is "The Queen" Reel 1.

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Mike Sellars
Film Handler

Posts: 34
From: Robertsdale, AL., USA
Registered: Oct 2006

posted 10-05-2007 05:33 PM

We just got a call and a fax from Technicolor that they are sending us a new reel 1 of The Game Plan because of the sound being out of sync... and I cannot find any of my people who have ordered a replacement... maybe they are doing it en masse. Anyone else getting a complimentary reel 1?

Mike

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Tim Asten
Film Handler

Posts: 98
From: Brighton, United Kingdom
Registered: Nov 2006

posted 10-06-2007 07:05 AM

We have the had the same problem with the movie Heartbreak Kid. An E-mail from the renters confirmed this and are sending a replacement first reel. DTS though seems unaffected. [Smile]

Tim

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James Westbrook
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1133
From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa
Registered: Mar 2006

posted 10-06-2007 11:50 AM

Technicolor probably wanted all the defective reel ones out of the way so they don't turn up at a second run location that also has SR D.
We had a bad sound issue with one reel on some forgettable movie that we discovered on week 2 because it was playing in DTS on week one and we didn't know the optical sound defect was there...until it went into a smaller house that has no digital sound.

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