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Topic: A Tale of Three Theatres: Closing Them Down
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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!
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From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 01-09-2001 10:56 PM
>>Why even bother having surround speakers (as pointed out in previous pictures) when you only have one amp per screen?! Does this make any sense?<<It makes perfect sense. The QSC amplifier is a two-channel unit, and the configuration for these auditoria is most obviously a 'center-surround' or 'front-surround' setup. Basically all three screen channels sum to center (mono) and the surrounds are extracted either by decoding the matrixed analog track or by synthesizing a pseudo-stereo from a mono track. I hope you didnt take the Starscopes... Those belong in one place... a dumpster. Aaron
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
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From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 01-10-2001 09:51 PM
Justin, I cannot believe that they were still running an old BX-60. If that is the same one I serviced 20 years ago, (and I think it is) you'll find a matchbook cover stuck between the framing sector gear and projector casting. I used it as a shim. That was all I had available to get a steady picture on the screen, and since it worked, I doubt if anyone ever re-did it. That framing sector gear was literally unavailable, and there were no scrap BX-60's to be found. Even Wolk didn't stock it. Scott, you are right - that is an old BX-10 Brenkert base (I have one of those monsters in my storage shed). There are plenty of Century/RCA 9030 setups in several junkhouses in Washington State. I did service the Roger's Cinemas years ago, and some of the equipment he had then belonged in the landfill, and not a theater. He had a bunch of Kneisley lamphouses that were not vented, and as a result, Rogers through xenon bulbs like crap through a goose! Now, if you think some of that junk shown in the pictures was bad, you should have seen what I had to service in his outdoor theater. I dreaded servicing that booth. Those soundheads he had there were one step above a Weber Syncro-film. It was an old Ballentyne, but I forgot the model number. 5? maybe 6? Yeah - the ones you used a broom stick handle to glue a solar cell to. Parts were unavailable for that, too. Essessness Theaters in Delavan were likewise junk houses. So was Kenosha, Wi. They had BX-100's in the indoor. The drive-in's were equipped with Motiograph AA's, and the ORC RPS-60 power supplies. All garbage. They had one nice theater - forgot the name of the city - but it was on the boarder of Illinois and WI. And, you should have seen that crap in Green Bay......The Bay theater was the better of the two.
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. When he was in our 'old side' booth he was bitching and moaning about how bad the Centrury SA was (?!?). He said to me, "The timing devices (yes, that is what he called them) were junk, no matter what you did you couldn't start the show in frame."
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