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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 02-28-2002 02:08 AM

If anyone finds a Dolby rep who knows the specifics on this, ask how many test prints were made. I think I would have noticed the SRD track in between the sprockets when I built up that movie.

Also, was there anything on the tracks? Did it carry a full 6 channel SRD signal, or was it just dead silence, or what?

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Bobby Henderson
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 02-28-2002 07:35 PM

"Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" was the first film to feature a test print featuring a Dolby Digital audio track. Unadvertised test screenings happened in Los Angeles. "Newsies" (released in the Spring of 1992) was another Dolby Digital test film. "Batman Returns" in the Summer of 1992 was the first official release. The debut of Dolby Digital happened some 16 months after Dolby's initial press release to hype the impending debut of Dolby Digital.

The announcement was critically well-timed to steal some thunder from the "official" roll out of Optical Radiation Corp's 35mm version of Cinema Digital Sound with "The Doors". It is widely disputed that "Edward Scissorhands" actually had the first 35mm CDS print, reportedly run at the GCC Avco in Los Angeles. The Ziegfeld Theater in New York had the only other CDS print, a 70mm verison.

DTS debuted on nearly 800 screens with "Jurassic Park" (which would seem to be some kind of a record in terms of size for a new sound format's debut). SDDS was debuted in 1993 as well with "The Last Action Hero" on screens in New York and Los Angeles. But after that screening, most SDDS showcases happened only in one AMC theater in Los Angeles and a theater in Tokyo. It took until the fall of 1994 for SDDS to come out of "test phase" and actually sell systems to movie theaters. I think that coincided with AMC's announcement to promise to equip all screens with SDDS.

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Darren Briggs
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From: York, UK
Registered: Dec 2001

posted 03-02-2002 03:46 PM

Bobby, do you have a good contact at THX who i can get in touch with to get some new THX logos, I'll have to get them sent to the U.K mind you. But it would be nice to have some other kinds. When we ask through our normal route, we just get sent the boring Broadway and TEX which we already have!
Cheers
Darren

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Bobby Henderson
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 03-03-2002 03:29 AM

I wish I had a good contact at THX. If so, I would be able to get one of Lucasfilm's fellows to come out to Altus Air Force Base and record the authentic sounds of a C5 Galaxy cargo jet doing a fly by for a future "THX Happens" snipe (a play off of "It Happened One Night" to keep with the Oscar winning films play for titles). Never in motion picture history has the sound of a C5 Galaxy ever been recorded faithfully. There is no other plane sound remotely close to that of a C5. Only a new C-17 gets in the neighborhood (and they have those at Altus AFB as well).

Ted Costas, a participant in this forum, is probably the best I could manage for THX contacts.

I do sympathize with the problem on getting good snipes. While I think the "Tex" trailers are kind of fun, the joke they provide gets kind of old after awhile. "Cavalcade" is kind of cool, but I cannot get past the fact that it is derivative of the "T2" DVD THX trailer. I hate "Broadway 2000" since it has no "oomph" to it and the regular "Broadway" trailer has just gotten to be too boring.

My favorite THX trailers continue to be "Grand" (which is great for a DTS equipped THX auditorium) or "Cimmaron" (which is perfect for a Dolby Digital equipped theater). Those are the only two I would be ordering if I had a choice.

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Jeffry L. Johnson
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From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 03-03-2002 09:48 AM

In rec.arts.movies.tech Theo Gluck said "The NEWSIES Dolby Digital test was at The El Capitan Theater in Hollywood."

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