There is your problem...your source is from a person that heard about it at an event and you reported it as fact. How many people removed from the source does your statement come from? When one talks about a company like that, it is irresponsible.

Now, I also agree about the 2000 series people...what do they have to look forward to? Al?

Steve

Glad to see you participating here again.

The same rumor popped up on Perry Sun's D-Cinema Zone website, and Brad and I questioned it there too. You may want to give them a first-hand update on the situation too:
http://www.dcinemazone.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000247.html

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After reading between the lines a bit, I wonder about 2 points:

1. Will Sony be continuing to manufacture SDDS equipment for installation, or just selling existing stock?

2. Will Sony be continuing to design and develop new SDDS products?

Thanks,

Sitting at home I cannot remember which titles but when I get back to work I will make a list and post it.

This makes one think - What are the film producers seeing in the future of digital sound systems?

Regards,

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Paramount often does not have SDDS, except on big releases (I believe FOX also favors DTS and Dolby Digital).

I'm sure things may be different in different countries though.

Steve

refering to some posts above.....DV and PC based editing are already exixtent in the professional world. There seem to be sooooo many commercials and TV programs that more and more are produced today that many of you have seen and are familiar with that were edited on an iMac laptop by the director himself on the plane while on the way home following the original shoot! The technology and usage of it is already here and so long one has a decent Digital Camera with some good software like Final Cut Pro thats all it really takes with out having any image quality issues!! Got Milk? Mitsubishi anyone? It was hard for me to swallow but seeing is believing and in my current line of work its becomming almost quite amazing!

Rory

It, along with the LE and RE amplifiers, were removed from the theater by the installer a couple of months ago.

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#1 A "click this button" to level match all channels to a DA20.

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#2 Individual level controls like a DTS unit. There are a few times here and there where this is preferrable.

Also, if they do this, Sony needs to make sure the outputs are the same DB25 pinin and pinouts of the DA20. Also it is imperative that all 8 channels flow through the unit, so it can be mated with a CP200 w/Aux rack. Dolby did not think of someone having a dts unit mated with a DA20 in a CP200, for the DB25 input does NOT accept the subwoofer...meaning the dts MUST be placed in the "priority" list of default order. This is fine with me of course, but one would think the designers would have thought about being able to have their product as priority. As things stand right now, looping the signals through a CP200 w/Aux rack require SDDS to be priority, dts must be "second choice" and SRD must be "third choice" with SR as the emergency fallback.

I agree, SDDS would be MUCH more commonplace if Sony was to do this. With the reliability of the 2500 and 3000 series, I see no reason why they do not (unless they are hung up on "taking over" the sound system).