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Author Topic: Aligning Sound Heads Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-15-2008 05:46 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer Just because a certain set of manufacturers don't include a certain function in their equipment doesn't mean it can't be done. Perhaps you cold do it for them... building the software and hardware into the CP650 to also allow it to also be a DHCP server would not be cheap.... nor would that function have any real value...  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-15-2008 06:42 PM                        It certainly wouldn't be expensive, and yes it would add a real value. You can get routers for $60 or so these days and it wouldn't even need that extent of the functionality. I highly doubt buyers would notice that kind of increase in the price of a unit which costs multiple thousands of dollars. If you want to believe that the CP650 is 100% perfect and cannot be improved/expanded upon, go ahead and live in your little dreamworld (where HD DVD is successful). Of course, I am also living in a dreamworld if I can imagine something that doesn't rely on a technology that isn't built into every modern computer on the planet.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-15-2008 06:50 PM                     Gee, even Blew Rae doesn't have dhcp... How come?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-15-2008 06:53 PM                        Because it sucks, of course!  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 09-15-2008 07:31 PM                     LOL Joe, sometimes I think anything beyond AM radio sucks in your opinion. And Blu Ray does have issues, like the bloody players taking forever to start playing any DVD. I had a big-name client get so pissed off at the lag he made me remove the Blu-Ray player and go back to a standard DVD player. Seriously though, has Dolby even defined a purpose for the ethernet connector? If so what is it?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-15-2008 08:00 PM                        Steve already posted the purpose of the ethernet connector! The issue with Blu-ray is your particular player. Mine doesn't load at all. I chose wisely. AM radio sucks ass. Actually, most radio sucks ass. I have no tolerance for it... unless I feel like listening to ads.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 09-15-2008 11:32 PM                     Thanks Joe...I had missed that in the flurry of other info flyin around...so Dolby was actually thinking ahead to D-cinema? As for the Blu-Ray....I have the Sony BDP-S300, but the BDP-S1 (Costs over $900 bux and yet it WON'T play CD's, c'mon even the $30 special from Wally world will play cd's) was even worse..that was the one I was saying the client didn't like)..and the Samsung player loads slowly too. But it will play ALL formats: HD, Blu-Ray, and standard dvds. You have indeed chosen wisely. And since many dvds are authored so badly I can see an advantage for going to any hi-def formats in dvd anyway. Radio is a waste for sure..XM isn't too bad though. To rethread this back closer to on topic: Soundhead alignment can be tricky for sure. I have good luck with analog and usually get it very close by eye before I even use the scope and RTA. But Dolby digital...yikes. Despite having the old ERPI tool and using both the scope and DRAS, I usually end up in a prolonged battle to get the focus and error rates to optimum. It's so freakin touchy, more so than analog. Now that I have the basement reader for my own machine, I can get plenty of practice....  |  IP: Logged Clint Koch Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1435 From: San Luis Obispo, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-16-2008 12:19 AM                     Greetings from rainy Russia. The model we recomend is CP-US-03 and is made by CP Tech USA Clint  |  IP: Logged

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