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Author Topic: Getting New Amplifiers Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 02-15-2012 07:21 PM                        "A" roll and "B" roll toilet paper?  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-15-2012 07:52 PM                        Louis--that's hilarious. (As is this entire thread, actually. Except for the parts about people having trouble with equipment, of course.)  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 02-15-2012 08:14 PM                       We are in the entertainment business, no? This has been fun.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-15-2012 09:09 PM                     quote: Dave Macaulay Places that drive on the left have cars with the driver sitting on the right. Hmmm, come to think of it you are correct. Sorry Steve, I tried to back you. Louis, which is A wind and B wind on the toilet paper? Wouldn't that depend on which side the dispenser was sitting from the "operator's" point of view?  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-15-2012 09:33 PM                     Oh, Jeez! Now we're going to have people starting to complain because their toilet paper rolls were shipped tails out? Then, of course, there will be the inevitable string of people who say they prefer their rolls shipped tails out! :roll:  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-16-2012 01:02 AM                     We're talking about A wind vs. B wind Randy. I've never seen ANY toilet paper roll come wound "emulsion" in. The slightly softer side is always out.  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-16-2012 06:48 AM                     And all this time I thought they were talking about the editor's choice of footage from the A roll or the incidental images kept aside in the B roll of film. With the advent of Digital, the absence of Rolls, all of this becomes academic. Maybe they have A chip and B chip data instead?  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 02-16-2012 07:44 AM                     ...and toilet paper has the sprocket holes between the frames rather than on the side. Curious.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-16-2012 08:03 AM                     quote: Brad Miller I've never seen ANY toilet paper roll come wound "emulsion" in. The slightly softer side is always out. Only when you're talking about two-ply. However, I've never seen any T.P. that was shipped on reels. Always on cores only. But, it does occasionally get shipped on 6,000 foot rolls. This is always in the commercial/institutional setting. Home/consumer use always ships on the shorter 2,000 foot rolls.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-16-2012 08:28 AM                        Well, now we know what use we can put all of those platters being junked for digital  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-16-2012 10:50 PM                     quote: Randy Stankey But, it does occasionally get shipped on 6,000 foot rolls. This is always in the commercial/institutional setting. But the mega-roll institutional version is unsprocketed, so it must be closer in spirit to 2-inch quad videotape...  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-16-2012 11:27 PM                     Finally, this thread has real value.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-07-2012 02:08 PM                     This shit just keeps getting better and better... A few weeks ago, when I reported the problem it was decided that there was interference on one of the inputs to the DSP coming from the mix console. The "solution" was to put an isolation transformer on the output of the console. Now the amplifier is making noise again. This time I'm not going to do anything. I'll just let the amp make noise.  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 03-07-2012 08:49 PM                       To go back to an earlier digression; The reason for driving on the left supposedly came from the knights & armor era. The idea was to use your best hand to impale the knight closing in on you on the road. Since people are about 90% are right handed... No idea if this is a myth or a fact but sounds good.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-07-2012 09:38 PM                     It makes sense that a right handed person would either defend himself or greet another with his right hand. Then, again, it also makes sense to meet an oncoming stranger on the left, thereby forcing an opponent to bare his weak side. Conversely, a right handed person who greets another in peace might show his weak side to another as a sign of respect.  |  IP: Logged

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