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Author Topic: Looking for a few good men Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-19-2003 04:04 AM                        John, you mean the TAP program ended? Geez, nobody told me...I keep sending in those forms every time I go to a movie, mostly pointing out how lousy the presentation was. They keep sending me free tickets. Frank  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-20-2003 09:32 PM                        The SMPTE Theatre Quality Evaluation Program was voluntary. If theatres appreciate the comments, they are still welcome to reward the evaluator.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-11-2003 11:31 PM                        Just curious if anyone who signed up for this has ever gotten the call to do an actual check...  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 10-11-2003 11:52 PM                        I signed up for it here in 'Vegas through Manpower and have never been called. Which is pretty much what I expected. From what I've seen the client studios or distributors are really only interested in checking screens in LA and NY, with a few other markets popping up occasionally. Even with over a million people and 220+ first-run screens in the valley, 'Vegas is still too small to appear on the distributor's radar. And considering that several other people also signed on to do the checks here, I expect that I will never be called do one. Maybe when I get back to SoCal... [ 10-12-2003, 10:13 PM: Message edited by: Paul Mayer ]  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-11-2003 11:59 PM                     I could never understand why these things are limited to people in the U.S. Don't companies like Dolby care about the rest of us?  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 10-12-2003 01:42 AM                     I signed up and filled out all the paperwork and everything. Never got called.  |  IP: Logged Ron Lacheur Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 650 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-12-2003 05:12 AM                     Haven't been called here.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-12-2003 08:57 AM                     In canada I got called but they want to pay through a employment agency unlike TAP where you submited a business invoice. That rules that out  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 10-12-2003 09:15 AM                     Who cares how you get paid? It's still good money.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-12-2003 11:20 AM                        Gordon - When I signed up they said I had to agree to sign up with the Manpower temp. employment agency and that Manpower would contact me. I was OK with that. But Manpower never contacted me and I never heard another word about it. Just as a point of irrelevant information, Regal lets me submit a special Regal-supplied invoice when I do advertising checks for them. I send in the invoice, they send me a check. They do have my SSAN though so they can report this to the IRS as supplemental income or some damn thing.  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 10-12-2003 12:07 PM                        Same here in Cleveland, Ohio. I applied and was told that Manpower would contact me. Nothing else ever happened.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 10-12-2003 03:05 PM                     I haven't heard back from anyone either, but at least now I know it's not because I suck Meanwhile I've seen a few problems locally that they probably would've liked to know about. Why am I not surprised that Regal pays people to check their ads, but not the presentation quality  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-12-2003 03:29 PM                     As a matter of fact, Regal DOES pay people to check presentation quality.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-12-2003 03:53 PM                        They're interested not just in what ads are shown, but whether there are any technical problems. So I report whatever isn't right. If there's anything generally wrong with the presentation during the ads, most of the time it's also going to affect the feature.  |  IP: Logged Chris Markiewicz Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: Glenaviegh, County Tipperary, Ireland Registered: Aug 2002 posted 10-12-2003 04:58 PM                     I signed up and actually was contacted by Manpower's Honolulu rep, but they never followed up. This island is a market with about 30 Dolby-capable screens in 4000 square miles.  |  IP: Logged

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