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Author Topic: 'The Duchess' - no DTS discs in circulation! Andy Frodsham Expert Film Handler Posts: 238 From: Stoke on Trent, Staffs, UK Registered: Nov 2006 posted 10-06-2008 12:19 PM                     Informed by DTS today that Pathe in the UK have 'chosen' not to send-out DTS soundtrack discs with their copies of 'The Duchess'. Having heard this (quite by chance, incidentally) I have requested that DTS send me a disc directly! If you are based in the UK and intend to screen this film with DTS sound, you'd better request a disc directly from DTS ASAP. What a joke!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-06-2008 06:14 PM                        DTS seems to become more and more obsolete every day.  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 10-06-2008 09:52 PM                       I never paid attention to the DTS discs until I switched to a theatre where 10 out of 14 needed them to run in digital (the bigger city theatre before had everything reading off the dolby track). Now we have to book auditoriums differently if something doesn't come with a DTS disc.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-06-2008 10:13 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer DTS seems to become more and more obsolete every day. I have discs here, although it is distributed by Paramount Vantage and not Pathe. I would think the lack of discs in the UK would be a decision of Pathe and not the fault of DTS.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-06-2008 11:20 PM                        I am referring DTS as a format. With Dolby Digital so easy to use and included on everything, there really isn't much of a reason to buy DTS products unless your audience is full of blind people, etc. For standard theaters it is pretty much useless, there are too many negatives about the format usually involving not getting discs and not all trailers supported.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-06-2008 11:35 PM                     It's handy to have for those occasions when we get used prints here. Both our Wall-E prints opened with 6. to 7 error rates. DTS allows me the luxury of not having to worry about whether or not it drops out altogether at some point when I'm not looking.  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 10-06-2008 11:57 PM                       John, were the Wall-E prints used? I'm surprised as my experience with Pixar has been all extremely low error numbers (sorry to get us off topic).  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-07-2008 12:09 AM                     Yes. Used and Scotch Guarded.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-07-2008 02:21 AM                        Demand untreated prints. Say that they will not run through your projectors properly.  |  IP: Logged Andy Frodsham Expert Film Handler Posts: 238 From: Stoke on Trent, Staffs, UK Registered: Nov 2006 posted 10-07-2008 04:31 AM                     Yes, the fault does indeed lie with the distributor (Pathe)! I didn't mean to suggest it was in any way the fault of DTS. I am shocked that a distributor would make a decision to avoid despatching what, to some theatres, forms an essential element of the product being screened. If I were the director of this particular film, I might, rightly, feel a bit p***** off that some patrons are not hearing it in its full glory!  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-07-2008 04:43 AM                     You mean in Dolby Digital?  |  IP: Logged Phil Blake Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 558 From: esperance western australia Registered: Nov 2003 posted 10-07-2008 04:48 AM                        quote: Joe Redifer DTS seems to become more and more obsolete every day. I could not agree more , it was bad before but the past few months DTS discs are indeed rare items in the booth these days, Mamma Mia,Wanted, Dark Knight, Mummy 3,Taken, Wall.e,Journey to centre earth , no discs.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-07-2008 05:10 AM                     quote: Phil Blake Mamma Mia,Wanted, Dark Knight, Mummy 3,Taken, Wall.e,Journey to centre earth , no discs. Start demanding to know why not...I had discs for all these titles. Sounds like your dispatch are getting lazy.  |  IP: Logged Andy Frodsham Expert Film Handler Posts: 238 From: Stoke on Trent, Staffs, UK Registered: Nov 2006 posted 10-07-2008 07:45 AM                     As a second-run art house theatre we NEVER get DTS discs with the prints anymore. Even when I email or fax the distributor in advance (specifically requesting that they include the discs)I still don't receive them. It's all very annoying because I recently spoke to a guy from a local multiplex who was complaining about all those 'useless DTS discs that he kept getting'! He said that they were making the place look a mess and was planning on throwing them away - fecking cretin! In the meantime, as far as we are concerned, I just contact DTS directly and ask them for a copy!  |  IP: Logged Tim Asten Film Handler Posts: 98 From: Brighton, United Kingdom Registered: Nov 2006 posted 10-07-2008 07:55 AM                     In our cinema, at least 95% of films are supplied with DTS discs. It is my sound format of choice. As has been mentioned though, The Duchess was supplied with no discs. In my opinion, as long as the DTS players are serviced regularly, they are very reliable and sound great even with worn prints where the DD tracks have long since been unusable. Admittedly our 6D'S aren't as reliable as our XD10 which is excellent - It plays 6 track sound, does subtitles, and plays audio description all at the same time if need be with only the odd glitch here and there. shame we have only the one unit at the moment. Tim.  |  IP: Logged

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