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Author Topic: Finally, Datasat has a new snipe David E. Nedrow Master Film Handler Posts: 368 From: Columbus, OH, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 04-12-2011 07:54 PM                        Datasat released their new Datasat Digital Sound tag. First to video, and 35mm to follow in Summer 2011. It's "eh", as in ok. All CGI, cartoon alien thing. BTW, has anyone seen DTS - The Speaker Orchestra. Datasat should have licensed that and just stuck their moniker on it.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 04-12-2011 09:10 PM                     Weird, I think it's kind of lame. Maybe I'm just too nostalgic of DTS branding. Also, it just seems to slow for a snipe. AJG  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-12-2011 09:26 PM                        Seems kind of slow but I'd have to hear it in 5.1. I still can't get over the extra-shitty "Datasat" name, though. Not a name that will be time-remembered like Dolby or DTS, that's for sure.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-13-2011 11:04 AM                        It's about 20 seconds too long, IMHO.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 04-13-2011 11:08 AM                     It reminds me 'Lifted', Pixar short on Ratatouille if I correctly remember  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 04-13-2011 11:31 AM                     Just saw my first film in a theatre 'Limitless' that had a Datasat logo in the end credits crawl.  |  IP: Logged Andy Frodsham Expert Film Handler Posts: 238 From: Stoke on Trent, Staffs, UK Registered: Nov 2006 posted 04-14-2011 06:22 AM                     Too long, too slow and too specifically geared-up to hi-tech content. How will this work in front of, say, a period film based on a story by Charles Dickens or Jane Austin???  |  IP: Logged David E. Nedrow Master Film Handler Posts: 368 From: Columbus, OH, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 04-16-2011 03:04 PM                        Maybe this was made specifically for one of the big films do out in the summer. I would prefer Sparks, or even the old DTS Experience flying disc over this. And it is way too long. I still wish Datasat had struck a deal with DTS to use the DTS name for theatrical use only. DTS could use it on everything else, stereos, video games, etc.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-16-2011 03:13 PM                        I really don't even know why they felt the need to break up. It's not like companies can't have two lines of product due to some weird law of physics.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 04-16-2011 10:41 PM                     I'm with Joe on this one....why the f**k did they bother to essentially abandon the DTS name? It just generates confusion in the customer's minds, such that they are. I would never play a "Datasat" logo here at UCI since everyone here already knows we have DTS. Corporate heads are notorious for making stupid decisions and sadly, DTS/Datasat has joined that dubious group.  |  IP: Logged Jake Spell Master Film Handler Posts: 294 From: Johns Island SC Registered: May 2009 posted 04-16-2011 11:06 PM                     I wonder how much it would cost to have a new DTS SPARKS or FLYING DISK 35mm trailer made? I throughly prefer them to the new Datasat trailer  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 04-17-2011 05:03 AM                     Datasat automatically conjures images of Satellite Data transmission- which as we all know has everything to do with Cinema Digital Audio.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-17-2011 06:37 AM                     At 47 seconds, that snipe's way too long. I doubt it would be programmed too often at that length.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-17-2011 11:19 AM                     SDDS had that REALLY long snipe that was something around 90 seconds.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 04-17-2011 01:27 PM                     Could a cinema get "in trouble" for running an old DTS snipe even though all their equipment may still say DTS all over it? AJG  |  IP: Logged

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