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Author Topic: SURVEY-7 channel vs. 8 channel Richard Topping Film Handler Posts: 13 From: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Registered: May 2001 posted 12-16-2001 12:01 PM                        Lets wait a day or two for 'Lord Of The Rings' and then try and compare them. I have got SDDS 8 Track, but no Dolby, so if you've got both, view it in both formats and tell us what you think?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-16-2001 07:02 PM                     I hounded DTS in the past about developing a next-generation digital sound process using the 10.2 Surround scheme devised by Tomlinson Holman. DVD-ROM based media would make it easily possible to deliver the track. Using DTS' CAC home theater codec to encode 10.2 channels of audio at at 3:1 compression with a 3072kb/s bitrate (double the "full" bitrate version of their DVD system) you will get 204 minutes of audio to fit on one single layer 4.7GB DVD disc. Pretty compelling isn't it? With more than one disc drive --let's say three drives for instance, it is possible to deliver the audio in fully uncompressed LinearPCM. Along with suggesting they go the DVD-ROM route, I also suggested it might be cool to make a new system into a server type of product. Make one box that can network itself to all the projectors in a theater. That would cut costs on getting a complex to have digital sound on all screens and make it easier to keep track of all the audio discs. Back to the topic: 7-channel EX versus 8-channel, well I would choose the EX thingy since it is something I am more likely to hear. In a lot of theaters, I would not benefit from a 5-up-front mix unless I were sitting pretty close to the screen. And since so many movies are shot in grainy Super35 2.35:1 that would kind of suck.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-16-2001 10:55 PM                     With the "film done wrong" trend of having top movable masking produeing giant 70' 1.85"1 images I think they should introduce the Imax top channel at the top of these oversized underlit screens  |  IP: Logged

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