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Dennis Atkinson
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 129
From: Birch Run Michigan
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 05-18-2002 09:42 AM

For those of you that use DLP, is it in the biggest theater you have?
What happens in a few weeks when the Staw Wars box office starts dropping? If it was on film you would move it to a smaller house, what
do you do with the digital version?

Dennis

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Steve Kraus
Film God

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From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 05-18-2002 08:15 PM

rm -f StarWars

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Paul Konen
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-19-2002 12:16 AM

#1 - Largest House 563 seats - Believe SW will play until Lilo & Stitch

#2 - Medium House 266 seats - believe it may a longer commitment but don't know for sure.

Paul
Cinemark Legacy
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Ken Lackner
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Atlanta, GA, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 05-19-2002 01:36 PM

Steve said, "rm -f StarWars." What does that mean in English?

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David Stambaugh
Film God

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From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 05-19-2002 01:48 PM

rm -f StarWars

That would be the Unix command to force-remove the file "StarWars" from the hard drive.

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Scott Norwood
Film God

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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-19-2002 05:43 PM

I can see it now:

$ rm -f 2001
rm: are you sure you want to do that, Dave?

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Frank Angel
Film God

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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 05-21-2002 12:40 AM

Oh....the f was for file.

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Steve Kraus
Film God

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From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 05-21-2002 11:16 AM

No, the f is for "don't give me any flack"

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John Hawkinson
Film God

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From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 05-22-2002 09:51 AM

(Yeah, this is really for Yak).

I'm kinda disappointed in you guys.
Of course, Scott, rm -f isn't going to prompt you! For the non-Unix geeks, the meaning:

code:


     -f    Remove all files (whether write-protected or not) in a
           directory  without  prompting  the  user.  In a write-
           protected directory, however, files are never  removed
           (whatever  their permissions are), but no messages are
           displayed. If the removal of a write-protected  direc-
           tory  is  attempted,  this option will not suppress an
           error message.

Frankly, I would have presumed that StarWars would be a directory (do the DLP boxes store a single movie in an entire file?!), so I would have gone with "rm -rf StarWars" or "rm -r StarWars" depending...

--jhawk

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Tim Turner
Film Handler

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From: Chula Vista, CA, USA
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 05-23-2002 09:35 AM

Hmmm interesting qustoin. I don't know. We didn't throw away older projector so its not likely we'll only play digital inthe largest house. But we also have DLP on a medium sized room about 300 seats then we have an actual Print of SW in another one. So the Print will probably just get tossed around.

And by the way our DLPs run on Windows 2000!

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Joe Beres
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 606
From: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 05-23-2002 10:04 AM

Tim said:
"And by the way our DLPs run on Windows 2000!"

Isn't that reassuring? Windows has always being flawless and problem-free, right?

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Tim Turner
Film Handler

Posts: 87
From: Chula Vista, CA, USA
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 05-24-2002 01:05 AM

Well there haven't been any yet problems yet though I swore I heard some studdering in the sound for about a second a few days ago, around the 2hr:08mn mark.

I think the main concern is the security vuneralbilities in Windows. I mean technically once I have the computers IP address I could just...

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Steve Kraus
Film God

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From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 05-24-2002 07:25 AM

Surely only the control system runs on Windows.

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Mike Williams
Master Film Handler

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From: Knoxville, TN
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 05-24-2002 10:54 AM

Isn't star wars booked with a minimum run of 12 weeks for the largest house in most cases? I'd imagine just like Ep1 nobody will be watching it in 12 weeks.

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