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Aaron S: All Universal releases should have DTS Stereo as well as DTS Digital.

True, from "Jurassic Park" until "For Richer Or Poorer" this was the case.

From "Half-Baked" on, ALL US Universal prints have been quad-format. (The only exceptions I can think of would be Universal-distrubuted arthouse product...)

And unless Dolby made some kind of contractual changes, ALL Dolby SRD prints, regardless of lab or studio, have Dolby SR analog backup tracks.

How can a film have more than one analoge track?

This is in reference to films such as Space Jam and Jerry Maguire which according to the credits have both Dolby SR and DTS Stereo sound.

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And the only way a film can have more than one analog track would be if it were a 35mm mag/optical print.

In the cases of the films you mentioned, are you certain it was the 'DTS Stereo' logo and not the 'DTS Digital' logo you were seeing? The two formats have two completely different logos. And, both 'Jerry Maguire' and 'Space Jam' carried DTS Digital tracks, but 'Jerry Maguire' was SDDS/DTS/Dolby SR only (no SRD)

-Aaron

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Anyway, what i was going to post in the first place was in response to Leo, in that we have UltraStereo in two of our 4 screens, courtesy of Jack Roe, and it sounds spot on, far superior to our Dolby CP55's in 2 & 3.

when the process was first developed only Universal Titles featured the process and it was exclusively only on these prints. No other digital present. What they were doing was this.

First there was two types of dts setups. 6-track and dts stereo two channel matrixed to four disks. These disks were not discrete like the six channel disks. They fed into the processors and were decoded into four channels. This same mix was used to create the analog soundtrack. The two types of logos were created originaly to distinguish between the two types of dts systems.

If jerry maguire did not use dolby digital then it was not bound under any contract to use the sr analog track. Not having a print of this movie in front of me to see, I could not tell you whether it was or wasn't sr analog tracks. My feeling is it could have been dts four channel encoding used for the analog.

Darryl: The 'DTS Stereo' logo as it is used today refers to the A or SR-compatible ANALOG OPTICAL track on certain (now almost exclusively non-Bond MGM) titles. The matrixed stereo tracks [via the CD's] haven't been available for years.

Perhaps Karen can referee this one and make an official call on this issue.

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By the way, as long as we're on logos, did Ultra Stereo ever have a logo for the handful of films that bore its name? I remember in Robert Altman's The Player, the Ultra Stereo credit was just text -- no logo.

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Tao Yue
MIT '04: Course VI-2, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Projectionist, MIT Lecture Series Committee

Michael: Which of those logos shown above did you see on 'Jerry Maguire'?

Tao: there is an alternate DTS Digital logo that I have seen on prints as recent as 'Flubber' it is a variation of the 'flying disk' logo (The Digital Experience)...

Aaron