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Author Topic: Dolby CP500 firmware source Fabian Schreyer Film Handler Posts: 63 From: Aachen, Germany Registered: Feb 2009 posted 08-15-2015 09:08 AM                     What do you people think: Is there any chance that Dolby will ever release the source code of the CP500 firmware? It would probably open a lot (or at least some) of new possibilities for playing around with this device.  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 08-15-2015 11:50 AM                       Two chances. Slim and none and Slim left town. Dolby just moved to a new corp. building and a lot newer film based products and fixtures have been put in the dumpster. That whole era is over for Dolby Labs.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-15-2015 12:17 PM                        All the more reason why releasing the source code for no-longer-supported products would be a good PR move on their part. If they're no longer offering support anyway, then the argument that letting third parties frig with them might invoke difficult liabilities no longer applies. I'm guessing that this leaves the optical sound preamp card for the AP20 as now the only film sound processing equipment left in production?  |  IP: Logged Stephan Shelley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 854 From: castro valley, CA, usa Registered: Nov 2014 posted 08-15-2015 12:44 PM                     I believe Ultra Stereo still makes the JSD-80 that does film as well.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-15-2015 12:54 PM                     Last I heard, the JSD-80 is still current...but remember too...there are stacks and stacks of just about every processor available out there. How is Datasat doing on the AP20 front? I know that there are diehard fans of them and they are quite flexible. However I'm curious due to the recent ending of not just the DTS/Datasat film stuff but also the people that have been let go. I know I had no problems supplying an AP20 with the film module not too long ago but that was before the layoffs.  |  IP: Logged Fabian Schreyer Film Handler Posts: 63 From: Aachen, Germany Registered: Feb 2009 posted 08-19-2015 03:17 PM                     Thanks for your thoughts on this topic! I just hope that some Dolby employee who in is in charge will read this.  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 08-20-2015 01:40 AM                       Fabian, Respectfully, you are dreaming. BACP does service and replacement parts as we can for the 500 and get no support from Dolby Labs. FYI, I worked there and helped in the initial design and can assure you Dolby is done with supporting this processor.  |  IP: Logged Marin Zorica Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 671 From: Biograd na Moru, Croatia Registered: May 2003 posted 09-11-2015 02:58 PM                     Not only the 500, but 650 as well, specially if you think on source code. To be honest, since i am on pro audio as well, source code for sony processor would be thing, since youcould arrange it to become some 8out active crossover/processor.... but also, to have source code is just one step, it realy depends how you do compile it, how to import it in with included firmware.....  |  IP: Logged Fabian Schreyer Film Handler Posts: 63 From: Aachen, Germany Registered: Feb 2009 posted 09-20-2015 01:03 PM                     It also would be great if Dolby would release the complete documentation on how Dolby Digital works. It would create the possibility of someone designing a new Dolby Digital processor in the future. There will be a time at which the last CP650 has died down. But as Sam already stated, I am dreaming here...  |  IP: Logged

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