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Author Topic: Theatre Thinks It Has Digital But Doesn't Rick Long Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 759 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 12-20-2003 02:10 AM                     If you don't tell them the truth and the next visitor to the booth does, aren't they gonna wonder about you too?  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 12-20-2003 02:40 AM                     My thought exactly Rick. If Manny wants to develop a good reputation he has no choice but to tell them the truth.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 12-20-2003 03:14 AM                        Wait a sec... If the owner isn't getting Jaxed around then where, exactly, did he get ahold of the SRD plaque he's displaying in his lobby? If the dealer left it behind after installing whatever he did put in that booth, I'd think there'd be a pretty clear foundation for fraud there.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-20-2003 11:47 AM                        I say, tell them they've really got a great deal...tell them they actually have 70MM!! Sounds like they will believe anything. But seriously, why would anyone get angry if they are alerted to a con? If you don't tell them and they keep getting ripped off by this service company and then they later find out about it, the big question from them to you would be, "So, how come you didn't tell us? It could only be: 1) you are too dumb to know we got ripped off, or 2) you were part of the con." Either way you will not fair well, to say nothing of the moral imperative to let them in on their little misfortune. I just found out that an installer sold the museum a used lens for a new Eiki video projector, and an incorrectly sized one at that. That's a $3000 rip-off. It would be uncontionable of me if I didn't point this out to them. Talking about looking at original invoices, I just came across one of the original invoices for the booth build 10 years ago in this same museum. The museum was billed for 6 exciter lamps. Cost -- $65 EACH. I guess some people just look like easy marks.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 12-20-2003 12:46 PM                     Exciter lamp list price...but in the bulb business who has ever bought at list. I see on some web-sites "rare" exciters are going for $100.00.....  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-20-2003 04:28 PM                       Sell them a DTS "upgrade" for a few thousand. Not too many pigeons come along these days.  |  IP: Logged Jean-Michel Grin Expert Film Handler Posts: 222 From: Geneva & Lausanne, Switzerland Registered: Jul 2002 posted 12-21-2003 06:02 AM                        One time, our boss told us to play digital trailers SRD, DTS, SDDS before the main feature, even the theather was not equiped with digital sound !  |  IP: Logged

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