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Author Topic: Burning DTS disks Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-05-2003 08:46 PM                     I burn dts discs on 5 cent el-cheapo CDRs all the time at high speeds. 52X burns are no problem for any unit with a Teac drive upgrade.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-05-2003 11:49 PM                    that's probably the problem then I was having. The DTS unit that was rejecting them still have the old drives in them. I have the upgrade kit for it I just need to get it done soon.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-07-2003 01:35 AM                     quote: With CDRs being about a nickel these days, just burn a 2nd copy for your interlocks and then toss it. quote: I'd just buy the really cheap CD-Rs and bin them when you're done. quote: If you get plain old CD-Rs, you burn the disk, use it and toss it when you're done. If the disk gets dirty, scratched or just plain stops working you simply toss it out and burn another. I like to burn music CDs to play in my car on long trips. When the trip's over I TOSS the disks! CD-Rs literally cost 25 cents apiece. You can afford to toss them. *sigh* ...and all that unnecessary plastic gets wasted and pollutes the world for sheer convenience! Isn't it nice that we can afford to do that? Kyle-- I noticed these were for FREE summer KID shows. While putting on the best presentation possible is applauded, I doubt the little kiddies or the grown-ups attending the free movie would notice or care whether it was in DTS or not. Is the extra time/effort/money worth it? Like Daryl said, just make sure your SR sound is well tuned, and that should suffice. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-07-2003 01:51 AM                        Thomas brings up a good point - CD-RWs are potentially more environmentally friendly, if they can be got to work reliably. But as Randy notes, they are not reliable at all and are also extremely sensitive and fragile into the bargain. I have a small number of them at home which I use mainly to record broadcasts from my FM or DAB tuner with a consumer CD audio recorder. If I decide I want to keep the recording (or part of it), that CD-RW goes straight in the computer in order to pull the data off to burn onto a CD-R, editing the wave file(s) first if necessary. I find that CD-RWs are alright for this purpose because they never need to be moved more than a few feet, and are always either in a machine or their case. But a projection box is a far less forgiving environment. I once dropped a CD-RW onto a carpet from around 3 feet and it never worked again. I wouldn't want to have to rely on something that fragile in a busy work environment, especially when it could potentially have an impact on hundreds of paying customers.  |  IP: Logged Karen Hultgren Master Film Handler Posts: 492 From: Agoura Hills, CA, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-07-2003 05:37 PM                        Why don't you guys save yourselves the trouble and order discs from the film distribuator? They're free! Karen at DTS khultgren@dtsonline.com  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-07-2003 05:54 PM                     Karen, simply because it isn't worth the hassle when a sudden interlock situation arises to try and call up the booker and have him call the distributor and have everyone panic to rush out a second set of dts discs, often on a moment's notice. The easiest solution is just to make a second copy at the theater level.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-07-2003 07:46 PM                     Maybe the distributors are prodding Karen to suggest ordering the discs -out of concerns regarding copy protection. I know it is DTS' official policy not to encourage making CD-Rs. Still, who in the world is really going to use DTS CD-ROMs or CD-R dubs besides a DTS equipped theater showing the corresponding film print? If anything, the distributors really ought to give the guys burning the CD-Rs a word of thanks for improving show quality on their films and bringing more folks to the theater. Many workers would not go to the trouble. I know of a couple theaters in my area where the operators don't even bother loading the DTS CD-ROMs in player!  |  IP: Logged

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