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Author Topic: A green DP 70! Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-16-2005 06:28 PM                     Hey Bill, At least those ladies down in Mobile didn't get aholdif it... it wold have all been painted flat white ! Mark  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-17-2005 02:04 AM                        They covered the orchestra pit. Not with a removable pit cover as is usual, but with a structural apron like they must have seen in smaller, non- mutli-use theatres. Now there is no orchesra pit. Now they can't book shows which use a pit orchestra. It's interesting how all the photos on the site are cropped or otherwise obscure the "lighting perches" they've hung from the ceiling. They don't have to ask "How does this work? What does this do?", & they don't want to. You can imagine them taking a car to the mechanic: "There's a black thing under the hood that I don't like the looks of. Take it out, & put in a set of storage shelves instead."  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 03-19-2005 06:32 PM                        William, Yes there are lights behind the pros grills, and it looks great. other fitings are lights around a dome in the ceiling that looks great too. A must see auditorium in the UK, perfectly well restored and re-fitted with the best projection possible. Darren  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-20-2005 03:55 AM                        Darren the Rex certainly looks the dogs bollocks! Will have to pay a visit sometime soon. Only one thing Did you manage to rig it for nitrate changeovers so the BFI could wander down the road from the archive to run some public shows  |  IP: Logged Ben Wales Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 602 From: Southampton. England Registered: Jul 99 posted 03-20-2005 04:05 PM                     The Rex Cinema is well a visit and I was able to see the first 70mm screening of "Lawrence of Arabia" on change-overs and the presentation was perfect. Only last week after attending the Widescreen Weekend at Bradford, I visited the Odeon Cinema at Stoke On Trent and currently being restored and owned by the Chief Projectionist is a Philips DP70 painted Blue!  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 03-20-2005 06:43 PM                        Would be a great place for the BFI to use and screen there prints, but no Nitrate provision was installed. Ed and Rob the two guys who installed the site had to push to get 70mm, only had one lens till the week before the show. Think Ed suplied the lens for free. City Screen LTD programme the venue, and i will push to get any 70mm prints we have circulating in the chain, screened at the Rex, I even did the print transport for Lawrence just to ensure we get 70mm on the sheet. Darren  |  IP: Logged Peter Hall Master Film Handler Posts: 314 From: London, UK Registered: Dec 2000 posted 03-20-2005 11:49 PM                        Hi "The best projection possible" - I thought the site was using Spanish speakers and had not installed Dolby because the technician concerned "doesnt really like Dolby" - is it really best to decode the film in a manner other than it was encoded ? I wonder if, for the customers good, it might have been a better investment to put SRD in rather than 70mm - 99% of visitors would have benefitted from this rather than the odd Sunday rep visitor to 2001 ! I do wonder if the install has been looked at from both sides of the port glass..  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-21-2005 12:20 AM                     quote: Peter Hall I do wonder if the install has been looked at from both sides of the port glass.. Actually Peter it appears that their technician was smart enough to look at the system design from the middle of the port glass, very few engineers seem to be able to do that these days. The Panastereo is a far better processor in just about every respect than any make of Dolby including the 200 and 650. Its also very flexible towards other digital formats, the 70mm version of this processor having two mag and two digital inputs. Also the SR noise reduction is again better than Dolby's own SR and the modules are record/play to boot. I like to call it the sleeper processor because its a giant awaiting in the shadows! Although I know little of the Spanish speaker systems in this theatre it still rates as one of the finest projection/sound systems on the planet and is easily adaptable to a DA-20 or DTS if needed. That its a classy place is all the better! I hope to visit it someday soon...... Mark  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-21-2005 08:40 AM                     I know of two speakers systems from Spain KCS which we installed many of with no complaints and Wassman which along with there projectors we had no complaints with both are THX approved And the choice of the panastereo is a forward thinking good move  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 03-24-2005 01:11 PM                        Yes I think the best bet would of been a CP200 with DA20, for the price having both SRD and 70mm capabilities. But installer chosse Panastereo brand new and DTS plus 70mm. So has everything and digital covered all be it DTS not the more widely used SRD Peter You should go have a peak at it. Worth the train fare. When we both have an evening free ill buy the beer and train ticket to berko. Darren  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-24-2005 07:33 PM                     quote: Darren Briggs Yes I think the best bet would of been a CP200 with DA20, for the price having both SRD and 70mm capabilities. But installer chosse Panastereo brand new and DTS plus 70mm. Actually one can hang both a DA-20 and a DTS on the CSP-1200 and then there is still the mag input which can also function as a third digital input if needed. After you hear a lossless DTS track you'll cringe at hearing SRD or even regular DTS. This is the one GOOD cinema processor than can handle the dynamic range of the lossless stuff flawlessly. The 200, and even its upgrde cards are certainly good but still very stone age compared to the 1200. The 1200 is simply the best sounding processor there is. Mark  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 03-25-2005 04:14 AM                        Mark I was just comaring for the price and money they had to spend, a S/H CP200 plus DA20 and maybe DTS for the price of a new non DA20 equiped Pannastereo. The panastereo did sound good, especaially on optical SR tracks. Mag was a little bright and harsh.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-25-2005 05:52 AM                     Regretably it doesn't have the academy filters for non NR encoded mag so when you eq the head you have to build in the academy curve then  |  IP: Logged Thomas Jonsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Bromolla, Sweden Registered: Sep 2003 posted 06-22-2005 03:51 PM                       The DP 70 isn´t green anymore. The pictures of the ugly green one has been replaced with pictures of a much nicer looking machine. It has been supplied with a motor driven framing device - the only thing I don´t like about the new pictures. Thomas  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-24-2005 09:32 AM                        quote: Dick Vaughan Did you manage to rig it for nitrate changeovers so the BFI could wander down the road from the archive to run some public shows I may be wrong, but I think that NFT2 is now the last auditorium left in Britain which is licensed to project nitrate. That's very sad because, as you point out, the BFI/NFTVA has lots of surplus element release prints which could potentially be shown. Many of them are much better quality than the questionable acetate dupes made during the 'nitrate won't wait' era of the '60s and '70s.  |  IP: Logged

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