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Charles Greenlee
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 801
From: Savannah, Ga, U.S.
Registered: Jun 2006

posted 06-24-2006 11:29 AM

When I worked at my previous house, I noticed a few issues which I don't know will help here.

1-I had to adjust the lateral on the timecode reader, because it would cut out in mid movie, always do this with a proper test film, or in a pinch, the movie itself, and never on the trailers since their production can be at times, substandard, not to mention worn and dirty if previously used.

2-I had to clean the lens on some of the readers, had cataracts worse than my dog. That helped on some.

3-Some films, especially ones from Deluxe labs, seem to have a poorly aligned timecode printed on the film itself. Unless you want to constantly adjust the alignment on your reader to match, you should just request a new print, or run in analog. (We have had a few films that suffered your exact symptoms because of this. Well, minus the light status. The movie would play fine, several times, then one time cut out half way through the prints. We'd check the system and the timecode reader wasn't seeing a time code. Next show, magically there was a timecode. This seemed to change with the alignment of the planets or something.)

However if you're getting a solid timecode throughout, then you may require help from DTS themselves. We had a unit that would repedidly lock up, that we had to send off. I think there is some sort of break they cut you if you subscribe to.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-24-2006 11:47 AM

This is definately a problem inside the processor. Could be bad drives or could still be the power supply being at fault. A running fan is meaningless except you know the power suppy is not overheating from lack of coooling. The supply has at least three DC rails and one of the rails could be down. A quick sub of the supply will verify that. If its a board then you will need another board... or spare boards which are hard to get for the DTS 6 i order to doagnose it. If you need new drives you will find it difficultt to get the TEAC CDR drives any longer and you will need to get the latest DTS drive upgrade kit(again). The latest upgrade kit utilizes IDE type DVD drives with a small IDE to SCSI converter board stuck on the back of each drive. In the future when a drive fails then you can go to your local Wal-Mart and get any cheapo DVD drive for 20 bucks and just move the converter card over to the new drive. The days of expensive TEAC CDR drives are over.

Mark

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Charles Greenlee
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 801
From: Savannah, Ga, U.S.
Registered: Jun 2006

posted 06-24-2006 12:19 PM

That's great, finally. SCSI is good, but too expensive. IDE is the standard. Finally DTS got a clue.

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