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Author Topic: Megastar Cinemas..Any impressions? Scott Madsen Film Handler Posts: 58 Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-09-2001 01:09 PM                     Megastar Cinemas is close to opening two multiplexes here in the Minneapolis area. Anyone have any impressions of them as far as operations or anything? I guess they have a few theatres already around but are fairly new.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-25-2001 07:51 AM                     I don't do impressions...my speciality is the law. (Airplane 2...The Sequel) ------------------ Children really brighten up your life...they never turn off lights.  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 05-25-2001 02:09 PM                     Hehehe...John, that's amazing! I saw the title of the thread and my first thought was to post, 'I'm sorry, I don't do impressions - I'm a projectionist', but you beat me to it!  |  IP: Logged JC Cowles Film Handler Posts: 77 From: St. Paul, MN Registered: Jun 2001 posted 10-06-2001 04:06 AM                     ...  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-06-2001 10:26 AM                     What equipment do you have there?  |  IP: Logged JC Cowles Film Handler Posts: 77 From: St. Paul, MN Registered: Jun 2001 posted 10-06-2001 06:32 PM                     ...  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 10-07-2001 12:30 AM                     Sweet setup! Same as my last theatre, except Dolby CP-500 instead of 650 and AP platters instead of DMC. (I never could understand the point of the DMC system.) If you have any questions about the stuff, feel free to ask me. Ken  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-07-2001 02:36 AM                     The DMC...and now SCDC...is simple...they are always perfectly timed! They are smooth on payout too. The DMC had to be recalibrated from time to time...the SCDC...is SelfCalibrating. Steve ------------------ "Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"  |  IP: Logged JC Cowles Film Handler Posts: 77 From: St. Paul, MN Registered: Jun 2001 posted 10-07-2001 05:51 PM                     ...  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 10-07-2001 07:56 PM                     Whoa! I just came from a 1999-built Regal. That's why it's the same equipment. I know we are closing a lot of theatres, but what theatre that new did they close???  |  IP: Logged JC Cowles Film Handler Posts: 77 From: St. Paul, MN Registered: Jun 2001 posted 10-07-2001 10:33 PM                     ...  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 10-07-2001 11:25 PM                     OHHHHHH..... You mean it's the next generation AFTER the equipment that you used. I thought you meant that your equipment is second hand, from your last theater. My mistake.  |  IP: Logged JC Cowles Film Handler Posts: 77 From: St. Paul, MN Registered: Jun 2001 posted 10-08-2001 12:34 AM                     ...  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-08-2001 02:59 AM                     You are right about those SCDC platters Steve, we used AP's until quite recently, then we did a couple of jobs with the the DMC type. What great running piece of kit! The operators love them too, because there are fewer switches etc. Only problem we have is the MUT keeps blowing fuses, this I believe is caused by Strong and most other American manufacturers making their equipment rated for 220v, and not the 240v we have here in the UK. A lot of transformers don't like 50Hz either, so often we have to change them for locally made ones. After that, all is well. Not too keen on the Simplex Millenium, though. The picture stability is not great and they leak oil somthing terrible.  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 10-08-2001 07:04 AM                     Pete, It's been my experience that every Simplex will eventually leak. And you're right abut picture steadiness. Ken  |  IP: Logged

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