We will NEVER stop supporting customers with CD-ROM drives.

The type of hard drive that will be used on our new player has not been finalized. When I am permitted to give you guys more info, I will (I know it's hard to wait).

Copying discs? The offical DTS company line is = do not do that.

Yes, you can copy DTS discs on the Mac and sell them on EBay for one million dollars each. Oh wait, I doubt you could get ANYTHING for 'em on EBay, but people ARE pretty stupid when it comes to that site.

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Of course I am only thinking in terms of private amusement but I guess it's not hard to extrapolate to the next step which would be to implement the entire box on an ordinary PC with no extra cards (feed the timecode into an audio input). DTS on every screen for $700 a pop.

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And, hey! Let's be careful out there.

Note my comments, I fully agree with you. That test was flawed and made in panic, imho, by Dobly who saw a threat coming from the 1/2 rate DTS.
Too me, the Dolby codec and its principles applied to the dvd market pose 2 serious, often recurring, problems:
1. its inherent caracteristics (bit sharing, low data rate, causing 93% of losses from the master , at 15:1 compression ratio etc)
2. unfaithfull to the original master (overall level, dialogue normalisation, which indeed DOES affect the work of the D/A converters in the reproducing chain, and downmixing, which KILLS dynamics imho ).

Hey, don't worry about it! I knew you weren't trying imply anything. I am happy to see that you are happy with us (DTS)!

hi

I was a bit stunned when I read your comment on dolby-dts test as what you said was exactly the opposite of what REALLY occured. (except that the full rate dts was ultimately prefered during this "blind" test run by dolby ).

if you want to read another example of flawed opinions against dts, read this: CLICK HERE

it's shocking to see the denial of the evidence (superiority of DTS) one can find over the internet.

best
David

hi

you're definitely more knowledgeable than me. I was just surprised of your rememberance but indeed, our memories can play tricks

Single point of failure? Hardly. First, at least give me some kind of credit. I'm am not talking about picking up some cheapo Hewlett Packard Pavillion PC and trying to make it into a server. I seem to recall mentioning stuff like Sun and UNIX, etc. Y'know, enterprise level server stuff. Not amateur crap.

If you put a good fault tolerant server in place with full RAID capability or better yet a rack mount server cluster you will have something far more reliable and even more simple in operation from an organizational standpoing than a multitude of DTS players strewn across an entire multiplex.

"SUN Microsystems is providing the server storage and networking platform for the cinema operating system and digital projector. The operating system will support the loading, scheduling, and playback of features, trailers and other pre-show content on multiple digital screens."

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/digital/prototype.shtml
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/digital/cineOpSys.shtml

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
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