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Author Topic: Slate Magazine predicts the end of projectionists Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 12-12-2010 03:02 PM                    My heart bleeds! Cineplex Odeon media guy Howard Lichtman once said during the 1996 projectionist strike that "the show will go on" in a newspaper ad in response to projectionist picketing...he was right.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-12-2010 06:15 PM                     Funny that was a lock out not a strike  |  IP: Logged Jake Spell Master Film Handler Posts: 294 From: Johns Island SC Registered: May 2009 posted 12-12-2010 10:22 PM                     quote: Bobby Henderson Theaters with crappy sound in their film setups will continue to have crappy sound with digital. I know of several Carmike locations that are all digital, with one or more houses that have mono sound and some pretty bad stories about how the Christie techs combated that problem.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 12-12-2010 11:24 PM                     I wonder if those locations were loaded with SMART processors...  |  IP: Logged Jake Spell Master Film Handler Posts: 294 From: Johns Island SC Registered: May 2009 posted 12-12-2010 11:47 PM                     The theater I used to work at had block amps in the mono house which got replaced with a SMART processor once the upgraded the slit light readers to red led.  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 12-12-2010 11:56 PM                    quote: Gordon McLeod Funny that was a lock out not a strike Yes it was a lock out indeed, my error. I still remember Angelo Marino walking around with his pager telling us that the projections are leaving the building  |  IP: Logged

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