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Author Topic: survey - favorite equipment dealers Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-02-2000 11:53 PM                        We occasionally go out of GTS in salt lake city, utah, but for the most part we use our own in house supply company, Media Active. Back in the days when Consolidated actually had a lot of theatres it was a good idea to have our own supplier, but with most of them closed due to OVER POPULATION by wiener film group (including ALL megaplexes), it seems to be more trouble than it is worth, too much accounting involved. ------------------ "If it's not worth doing, I have allready been there and done it"  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 03-03-2000 02:02 PM                        We'll deal with whomever is cheapest and most efficient. For a long while now it's been Cinema Products International in Nashville... we seem to have a good relationship with them. We tell them what we want... and we get what we want. A lot of times we'll tell our old dealer(s) what we needed and they'd send us too much or something WAAAYYY different than what we really wanted. Our company has an odd way of fixing things... so when we SPECIFICALLY say that we want only HALF the parts to make the broken lamphouse work... then we want only HALF the parts to make the broken lamphouse work. The rest of the parts are usually found in our cannibalized barn-o-equipment.  |  IP: Logged William Dickson Film Handler Posts: 41 From: Riverside, Ca. USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-03-2000 02:07 PM                     I have to give "props" to MTS West and in particular Johnny. Last weekend we had a bulb blow in a projector and I contacted Johnny on a Sunday and he made a special trip to the office to make sure they had the part in stock. He then drove about 70 miles one-way from Burbank to Fontana (near San Bernardino) to deliver the bulb. Because of him we only lost one show. Otherwise we probably would have lost Sunday and Monday beacause Monday was President's Day and they weren't open. Thanks again to Johnny and MTS West for helping me.  |  IP: Logged

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