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Author Topic: Dolby Digital trailers Bevan Wright Expert Film Handler Posts: 176 From: Fountain Valley, CA, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 12-16-2003 08:28 AM                        You can download most of the audio trailers here - http://www.cinenow.com/us/vobtrailer.php3  |  IP: Logged Scott Jentsch Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1061 From: New Berlin, WI, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 12-16-2003 09:13 PM                        Having just viewed the trailer for The Polar Express, I think it would be cool for Dolby to get together with the studio and produce a variation on their Dolby Digital Train trailer to go with the theme of this movie. The Polar Express Trailer at Quicktime.com: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/the_polar_express/  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-16-2003 09:50 PM                     Manny Dolby is very upto date on who is miss advertising Dolby equipped theatre when Brand X installed in stead  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-17-2003 12:33 AM                     ...and you know this because..? You'd have me believe that Dolby has a gang of trailer checkers on the payroll? Trailer checkers who -- by the way -- also happen to know the contents of every theatre rack in their region? I'm so sure that this is happening! NOT. I may have been born at night...but not LAST NIGHT.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Jones Master Film Handler Posts: 314 From: Geelong Victoria Australia Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-17-2003 02:19 AM                     I also recieved a free Dolby tag with my Ushio lamp order as it was a promotion mentioned in the latest Atlab news letter.Some months ago I recieved after emailing Dolby UK 4 Dolby tags free of charge, which by the way i was most gratefull as our current ones at the time were worn. They were more than happy to help. Cheers Stephen  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-17-2003 01:37 PM                     I know of quiet a few theatres that have recieved letters threatening legal action if they don't drop the dolby name from there ads when they didn't have dolby equipment  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-17-2003 01:42 PM                     Whatever.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-18-2003 10:59 PM                     In the surviving HARRY POTTER IMAX thread, Gordon wrote: quote: there seems to be a lot of "what ever" type of attitude these days People don't always agree with you. Get over it. Just because you know of a couple of theatres who got busted does not mean that Dolby is "up to date" or "fully aware" or whatever.... All it means is that you know of a couple of theatres who got busted. It's a gigantic leap to then declare that Dolby has a network of trailer spies. Back to the original argument: Using lamps by Ushio does not guarantee that a Dolby processor is present. If Dolby is so intensely aware of who has (or doesn't have) Dolby equipment then why would they participate in this stupid scheme? It just doesn't make sense. None of it.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-18-2003 11:37 PM                     Manny if the processor/digital that they have a is a DA20 and or any dolby processor they can with in limits legalaly advertise dolby (ie a DA 20 with brand x processor) =dolby digital or a DTS with a Dolby CP processor = dolby stereo  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-19-2003 04:10 AM                     Oooooh, I know of people with SDDS on top of a CP65. I guess technically they could advertise "Dolby digital", since that is precisely what they are offering. I agree with Manny, the promotion is moronic.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-19-2003 05:56 AM                        Me, I am still running the "The following presentation is in Dolby Stereo" trailer they made 20, maybe 30yrs ago....hehe. Big ole Double-Dee and the word DOLBY as big as a house; I'd say 75% of the audience just registers the Dolby name and that is good enough for them -- they probably assume it's digital. Well it aint unless it comes with DTS disks....and like, how often is THAT actually gonna happen on second run titles? Plus, I just got my spanking new JBL trailers in (free, thank you JBL) but have yet to check them out. I used to use the Smart "Wide Screen Stereo" trailer that has a fantastic organ crescendo at the end that rocked the walls, but unfortunately it also had a voice-over the music that said, "This feature film is presented in WIDE....Wide....wide SCREEN....Screen.....screen STEREO....Stereo....stereo. (ECHO....Echo...echo)" The voice-over became a bit to tiresome for my tastes so I retired the thing, but I sure did love those organ basso profundus peddle cords at the end....talk about stressing your system to find the distortion threshold -- read: let's see where are those subs are gonna crack! Anyone know if Dolby still makes those analog tags? It should would be nice to get some new ones.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-19-2003 07:56 AM                     "Temple" is all Dolby is currently offering as far as analog-only trailers. The new "Perspectives" trailer is an SR/SRD trailer but it just says "Dolby" which means we can use it to promote analog systems. The "Mancini" trailer and the "Listen" test film are out of print, too. Anyone still got either of those?  |  IP: Logged Eric Hooper Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 532 From: Fort Worth, TX, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 12-19-2003 01:56 PM                     At The Alexandria theatre here in SF they have Dolby Digital in the downstairs main house, and two upstairs auditoriums with mono sound. (The last two mono houses in SF.) They are pretty good with the advertising in the newspapers not to advertise any digital sound for movies showing in the upstairs auditoriums. However, once in a while a film that was showing downstairs last week and gets moved upstairs might still have the dolby digital advertisement on it. It happens, and nobody's perfect. However, I once saw the Dolby Digital egypt trailer run in an upstairs mono house on a film (Training Day) that had just been moved upstairs from the week before. Ooops! (But I also wondered if the rest of the audience really even noticed or cared.)  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 12-21-2003 04:24 PM                        I Have a couple of SRD mancini trailers, not that good for modern epic's though, nice for older titles though. Darren  |  IP: Logged John McConnel Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Okmulgee, OK USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 12-21-2003 07:59 PM                        We're using a new print of an old CITY trailer just ahead of LORD OF THE RINGS 3, and its soundtrack hammers the speakers and does a good job of getting customers' ears ready for the feature. We're using PERSPECTIVES on BAD SANTA, and it's appropriate, too. Its EX track adds to its effectiveness. It'd be good if Dolby would come out more often with new trailers, say, like one each month.  |  IP: Logged

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