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Author Topic: Theatrical Exhibition of DVDs Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 09-06-2006 03:37 PM                     Scott, that sounds like the kung fu festival we ran in June. The promoter said he was sending a "Chinese guy" to the booth to translate the menus, he was Korean.  |  IP: Logged Glen Rich Film Handler Posts: 55 From: Nedlands, Western Australia Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-06-2006 07:46 PM                     Today is the first official screening, (I had to run a few tests), of DVD in the Cinema I've worked at for the last 15 years. The DVD was supplied by the film distributor, and today is opening day, first run. With a throw of 15.2 metres and a screen width of 11 metres, in our smaller Cinema, I was hoping it would look crap. But the bloody thing has a decent picture,( but well under the quality of 35mm), we're using a high end Sanyo Pro multimedia projector. The problem with screening this way are; run advertising through the DVD player, (had to modify server run media files and burn them to DVD as there's no computer in the smaller cinema's bio-box.), at close of advertising start 35mm projector to run trailers, at close of trailers start feature DVD, (changeover). It's a mishmash of applications. Given practice the presentation may look good, but at the moment it resembles a dog's dinner.  |  IP: Logged Cameron Glendinning Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 845 From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 09-06-2006 11:39 PM                     Thing to hate about running DVDs Like when they freeze and skip infront of 400 people. When you have to eject the disk and clean it when it freezes and skips infront of 400 people. Having the DVD player set internally to the wrong audio source. Home burnt disks that wont play in brand name players. Why do cheap chinese players play everything? You forget to hit stop twice on the set up. When you start the show the resume function places you 10 min INTO the show. You swith off the resume function to solve that problem and then 1/2 way through the show and disk skips, when you clean it it starts from the BEGINNING!!!!!!!!! Hate seeing the brand of the DVD player on the Big Screen? 5.1 sound and the grounding issues!!! now lets just plug it all the gear into the sound processers power point, mmm lets add a small length of flex and ground the processer with the DVD player. You start to bring your laptop into work just to test the disks in 2 minutes with DVD shrink, so you will know that they will play!!!!!! To progresive scan or not to progressive scan? that is the question. Wheather it is better to have a sharper picture or an ability to monitor it on the in bio box monitor? Menu or autoplay? We have a very nice video projector a Cineo 3, some of them are badged Christie. results are very nice on screen. Prefere to work with a server than a DVD anytime. Good old 35mm seems so much easier!!!!!!!!!!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-07-2006 03:06 AM                        To get round unskippable crap and DVD player logos on the screen, you could rip the DVD content to a laptop, extract the feature itself to a separate programme stream and play that out using something like Power DVD. Assuming that you licensed the screening legitimately and deleted the ripped content from your hard drive immediately after the show you probably wouldn't be breaking the law: and even anyone tried to suggest there was a theoretical infringement, you could argue that you were simply taking the technical steps necessary to present the material which you had legally licensed for screening.  |  IP: Logged Glen Rich Film Handler Posts: 55 From: Nedlands, Western Australia Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-07-2006 07:13 AM                     quote: Leo Enticknap Assuming that you licensed the screening legitimately and deleted the ripped content from your hard drive immediately after the show you probably wouldn't be breaking the law: and even anyone tried to suggest there was a theoretical infringement, you could argue that you were simply taking the technical steps necessary to present the material which you had legally licensed for screening. Even theoretical infringements are met with the threat of a AUD $50 000 fine and/or 6 months gaol. I proposed something simlilar,and had copyright law pointed out to me in detail by management.  |  IP: Logged Patrick Matthews Film Handler Posts: 86 From: Kansas City, MO, USA Registered: Sep 2004 posted 09-07-2006 09:19 AM                     We play DVDs quite a bit at the two theatres that I manage (both single art screens) because a lot of what we play is local stuff. I have gotten quite good, as well as my staff, as playing DVDs with the showmanship that you would 35mm. No menu is seen on our screen and no DVD player brand. We do this by testing the DVDs ahead of time and with a lens cap for our projector. While it is not 35mm you can still make it a show and not just put the DVD in the player and hit play so everyone in the audience sees the big blue box that says play.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 09-07-2006 11:31 AM                     Close the douser and play past all the crap you don't want and hit pause. Making sure the disc is clean and compatible with the player makes sense. Low end players don't see all the errors, layer transitions, dirt, etc. that the high end, mega feature players see. Our cheapo $39. Walmart special has done better than its high priced predecessors. A case of them is cheaper than one premium machine.  |  IP: Logged

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