my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Operations   » Film Handlers' Forum   » dts discs (Page 2)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1  2

Author Topic: dts discs Mathias Andersson Film Handler Posts: 26 From: Sweden Registered: Oct 1999 posted 10-04-1999 06:41 AM                     What is actually the purpose with a timecode generator? Of course it would be cool to have one and play all the THX trailers and stuff, but what is the real purpose?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-04-1999 11:58 AM                     The time code generator is required to drive the dts player to make it play. In a simplistic sense it is the motor on a old vinyl turntable. The disks are coded by serial number then reel number and location in frames the film timecode contains that information. If the film isn't running you can connect a dts timecode generator to the timecode input and input the serial number and then command what reel number to play  |  IP: Logged Rick Long Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 759 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-04-1999 05:06 PM                     Got a question. I am about to upgrade a DTS-6 (2 drives, not 3) with the Teac drives, Acqutec ROM, Adaptec SCSI board, and the V1.46 chip. One of the problems with the old hardware was that at the end of the show, after the automation had pulsed the unit to non/sync, the unit would default to optical after the time-code ran out, hearalding the end of the show by running the tail-piece through in optical. (Woke up the patrons after a boring movie, anyway). This happens with the 2-drive units, not the 3-drive ones. We have found several ways around this. My question (at long last) is; does the updated hardware prevent the unit from defaulting to optical at the end of the show, after the non/sync pulse?  |  IP: Logged Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 10-05-1999 03:13 AM                     The only times I have had thes problem is when the projectionist puts on the end cue before the time code runs out. The processor switches to nonsync, but the DTS, which still has timecode, switches the processor back to digital until it looses timecode, and switches the processor back to SR.  |  IP: Logged AndrewBurnell Film Handler Posts: 17 From: Newcastle, NSW, Australia Registered: Aug 1999 posted 10-05-1999 07:53 AM                     Joe: It's not a DVD Player, it is just a CD Player, I may be stupid but I know the difference! It's a 5 disc carousel and it has a nice little DTS logo on the front and a Digital output on the back.  |  IP: Logged AndrewBurnell Film Handler Posts: 17 From: Newcastle, NSW, Australia Registered: Aug 1999 posted 10-05-1999 07:55 AM                     Joe: It's not a DVD Player, it is just a CD Player, I may be stupid but I know the difference! It's a 5 disc carousel and it has a nice little DTS logo on the front and a Digital output on the back.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-05-1999 06:52 PM                        Andrew - I have never seen that before! Interesting. But I would take it to mean that it can play DTS music CDs. There are around 50-100 of them on the market (I think I have 3 of them). It's just some obscure bands recorded in 5.1 multichannel. Sounds great! However any CD player with digital out can play DTS music CDs with a DTS decoder. I wonder if there is a way to "modify" a home DTS decoder to decode movie discs?  |  IP: Logged AndrewBurnell Film Handler Posts: 17 From: Newcastle, NSW, Australia Registered: Aug 1999 posted 10-06-1999 09:24 AM                     I hope so, I bought a receiver today for my dvd player that has Dolby Digital and DTS! If anyone thinks of anything, give me a yell!  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1  2

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.