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Author Topic: DTS test disk Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 06-12-2013 09:23 PM                     Does anyone know where to get the DTS test disk to set levels on a DTS6 or 6D processor?  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-12-2013 09:37 PM                     I have a disk image of the Empirical Test Disk with C-3PO and R2-D2. If you want it, I can send you a link to it from YouSendIt and you can burn it to a CD. It's only about 73 MB.  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 06-12-2013 09:42 PM                     Randy, that would be great. Thank you.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-12-2013 10:11 PM                     Sent an e-mail.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-12-2013 10:29 PM                     The discs are here in the warehouse. Link to software  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 06-13-2013 02:29 AM                     It's the Empirical Test Disc that will allow you to play sound from any feature disc, isn't it? Ours went missing years ago - is it covered by one of the downloads in the software section, or if not, Randy would you mind sending me the download link as well?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-13-2013 07:39 AM                     That stopped working with Lord of the Rings 3 if I recall.  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 06-13-2013 08:43 AM                     Oh, I didn't know that. Not a huge problem in any case as we have a lot of older discs to match our repertory programming. Just a nice feature to have up one's sleeve.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-13-2013 01:37 PM                     I'm confused. What good is it if you can get the disc to play? Are you going to try and play it alongside a print? You will never maintain sync. One missing frame and you're shot. The dts player will only play one reel, then you're shot. One frame off on the start and you're shot. Surely you have some other goal here.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-13-2013 02:31 PM                        Did they make the changes on the movie discs or revisions to the Empirical Test Disc? If I recall (and it's been a looong time so correct me if I'm wrong) you load up a movie disc into slot A and then put the test disc into slot B. Slot A starts playing. To me this seems like an unintentional bug in the test disc. I guess a theatrical disc could have some sort of weird-ass program on it that says "Don't play if such-and-such a disc is in one of the other drives". But why? Who cares? There's no reason to prevent this. I'm sure it was someone from a studio that decided this and demanded that DTS make the change. I bet they feel that they saved their company millions of dollars somehow. I liked using it to sound check auditoriums with known material.  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 06-14-2013 02:23 AM                     I understand very well the limitations. Like Joe says, it's an easy way of checking the system with known material - and that includes checking the DTS player itself, even if D-Cinema can provide the known material for the rest of the system. We have a nice set of test materials for optical, SR-D, and mag, so it's nice to complement it with something for DTS, especially if it means we don't have to drag a reel from the 70mm of THE MASTER upstairs.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-14-2013 12:05 PM                     But a self-playing dts disc does not in any way verify the timecode reader is working properly, so it's a false sense of security.  |  IP: Logged

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