The only thing I have been intriqued enough to copy is the graphical layout printed on the disc in CorelDRAW format. I'm a computer graphic artist on top of being a nut about this film-tech stuff, so my collection of logos has really added up.

I can understand an theater operator slipping up on a rare occaision and not putting the discs back into the cans when the print is returned. But being careless about it is not only ignorant, it is downright selfish. I don't know what the discs cost to make and how that averages in cost per theater, but I know it isn't free (a CD replication plant may charge you around $2500 for creating a glass and stamper master set for mass replication, with the replicated discs maybe costing anywhere from pennies a disc to over $1 per disc depending on how many you get made).

Another poster commented about the separate discs being a weakness for DTS and how that makes Dolby Digital superior. I disagree. The dual system format makes DTS easily compatible with just about any motion picture film format in existence. The separate discs also allow DTS to run at a much milder ratio of lossy data compression than Dolby Digital. (SR*D theatrical runs at only 320kb/s versus the 820kb/s rate for DTS theatrical). IMHO, that makes DTS sound consistently better. And then you have the reliability factor. I still see lots of Dolby Digital systems skipping out to analog at reel changes. DTS can ride through really worn out prints with little problem at all.

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I dont know what the deal is with chocolat.
Thisis the fourth time we have played this film.

We lost it right after the saward, got it back a week later, lost it again, got it back about two weeks later, lost it a week or two ago, and here it is again.

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