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Author Topic: Unable to Upload Content to Sony Project Emma O'Leary Film Handler Posts: 1 From: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Registered: Sep 2016 posted 09-04-2016 07:10 PM                     Hi! I work at a small art house and for at least a year the projectionists have been unable to upload content directly from the computer to the just ONE of the projectors. On all of the other projectors there is no problem sending information to them from the computer. However, on this one projector we can only ingest hard drives locally, although we are able to upload keys and delete content from the computer. Despite asking upper management on multiple occasions to send someone with better knowledge to help fix what we've been told is a hard wiring issue, we've received no help. We've also tried contacting Sony, but with no avail. Is there anyone here that has encountered this problem and knows where the disconnect is and how it can be fixed? Other information: The projector model is a Sony SRX-R320  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 09-05-2016 04:32 AM                     Hi Emma, I guess there is little chance we can help from here. The LMT300 in the Sony 320 is a bit more complex to set up for network operations. You probably need to find an integrator with some knowledge to fix this. Or have a local IT guy make himself familiar with it. Do you have all the manuals for the Sony? Who installed this system initially? - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-06-2016 05:23 PM                     Why Sony is bailing out of the cinema business. That LMT300 system is so proprietary..  |  IP: Logged Ioannis Syrogiannis Expert Film Handler Posts: 147 From: Reykjavík, Iceland Registered: Jun 2005 posted 09-10-2016 01:24 PM                     The LMT-300 does not have an FTP server. That means that no FTP ingest can be achieved remotely, in the fashion it can be done with dolby, doremi, alchemy, XDC, the Sony 500 series and so on. What can be done, since version 1.7 of the LMT, is to create a shared folder and register it with the server (Settings>Folders via the SMS Controller), so it can ingest, as much as export, content from and to it. On the server side, one would need user permissions to alternate the folders settings and the SMS Controller. Is it possible? If yes, I think that is your solution.  |  IP: Logged Sascha F. Roll Expert Film Handler Posts: 140 From: Berlin, Berlin / Germany Registered: Sep 2015 posted 09-10-2016 04:19 PM                     Monte, you should really stop to talk bulls**t like that. Or you name your sources. Thanks.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-11-2016 05:17 AM                     Read that Sony is dropping the SRXR320 unit for the more compact SRX-R515P, and the smaller SRX-R510P that uses the SXRD display and uses the high pressure mercury lamp modules. Looks like the change is happening in Europe for the time being. www.sony.co.uk/pro/product/digital-cinema.../srx-r320/overview  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 09-11-2016 05:21 AM                     Monte, That does not mean 'bailing out' to me. They are simply going on with the technology. Have you seen the 51x series and what a dual stack can do?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-11-2016 09:16 AM                     Sony should bail out of the projector line completely. They are nothing but piles of shit. Mark  |  IP: Logged Sascha F. Roll Expert Film Handler Posts: 140 From: Berlin, Berlin / Germany Registered: Sep 2015 posted 09-11-2016 09:52 AM                     Maybe you should tell my costumers with R51x projectors (>60 that i personally take care of, there are a lot more installed by other companies), which are in general very happy with the quality and reliability of the machines. Plus with the XCT-S10 server I never had ONE software update thst introduced serious bugs. It's just working. And FYI: A super low-contrast NEC NC900 with the ''uber-reliable" Lens Shift / Focus is about 27.000-29.000 € in germany. You can get a SRX-R510 for 33.000 €. 4k, higher contrast, better lens, 'real server' with CRU/USB3, reliable. It's just a huge machine.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-11-2016 09:55 AM                     As compared to what? A Christie Duo system or any of the RGB laser systems using DLP? Oddly enough, I'd think Sony would have wanted to jump on lasers first since that technology really helps LCoS but no, Sony has gone back to using multiple A/V projector lamps and wow...6 of them!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-11-2016 09:56 AM                     Sony's are still awful systems no matter what angle you look at them from. Wait till your customers have to have the imaging chips replaced and then tell me how much they actually like them. The imaging chips all eventually turn to toast starting with the green chip. And absolute black in a theater is completely meaningless since there is so much stray light from aisle lighting and exit signs that are required for safety that you can never achieve absolute black anyway. Oh... and don't forget the light scatter factor caused by the screen itself. Keep on dreaming though... I have no doubt your intentions are good. Mark  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 09-11-2016 12:11 PM                     quote: Mark Gulbrandsen And absolute black in a theater is completely meaningless since there is so much stray light from aisle lighting and exit signs that are required for safety that you can never achieve absolute black anyway. 8000:1 is not absolute black. Is blacker than 1600:1. You have clearly never seen a 51x in action in a cinema. You may like them or not but you cannot dispute the facts. What Sascha says is spot on. They are reliable, provide excellent picture and they simply do what they say. The engine requires a little more maintenance but nothing terrible. Never heard of issues with the green chip - or with any chips to be honest.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-11-2016 01:32 PM                     Marco, It's nothing to do with what the projector can do. In this case stray light in the theater determines the actual black level capability of the system. And you have to factor in light scatter from the screen itself. So Sony's ability to do absolute black is actually pretty pointless when you take in the big picture, because there is never going to be absolute black on the screen. Also, have seen enough brownish colored images out of Sony projectors due to fried lcos imagers around here to never want go back to those sites again. In fact when AMC took on Sony they got extra imagers for each projector that was installed included as part of the deal. Not like AMC is actually giving all their locations any top notch service... Mark  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 09-11-2016 02:22 PM                     I see your point but you keep saying "absolute black". We are not talking about absolute black here. And 8000:1 is very noticeable in a theatre. As I said, you never seen them in action - or if you have, you were distracted!  |  IP: Logged Ioannis Syrogiannis Expert Film Handler Posts: 147 From: Reykjavík, Iceland Registered: Jun 2005 posted 09-11-2016 02:25 PM                     O.K. I couldn't keep being on topic, I had to write about irrelevant issues too. Without wanting to be a Sony's defender here, I don't want to propose Sony as having better image than other vendors out there, especialy due to better lens: There is a merrit of truth on what Mark is writing about, regarding high tempratures on the light engine on Sony 320s. Yet, in the 500 series' LPD unit, the blue colour went up and got a UV cut filter. That issue is not noted to be as serious as it was on the 320 series. Recently, a new kind of air filters were introduced. I realy hope that they will reduce the problem of filter contamination with dust, that is more frequent, yet less serious in terms of cost of maintenance. Regardless of which company we think wears the crown of the best screening, we can safely assume that Sony is not bailing out the cinema business. Emma, if you 'd like, let us know if and how you solved the problem.  |  IP: Logged

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