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Author Topic: Do all screens normally have access to all content on the servers? Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-04-2013 06:47 PM                        He's a very acquired taste  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 12-05-2013 12:45 AM                     Interesting to see REGAL do NC-17 stuff, for I thought it was against their policy to show such ... oh well, guess rules have to be bent once in a while. This kind of junk reminds me of an incident that happened back in 2001 at a plex that I was booth manager at: We were playing Disney's "Emperor's New Groove" as a matinee set and an R rated flick for the evening set. House had DTS-6AD units. My afternoon operator began the Disney as normal and about the middle of the feature, suddenly the main character was dropping "F-Bombs" left and right. An irate customer actually jumped the concession stand to go after the concessionaires, and management hurriedly left the boxoffice to contain the fellow and have his escorted out of the location. Manager called me up (my day off) and demanded an explanation on why this would happen in a Disney film. I asked for the kid that was working the booth that day and asked him: "did you switch out DTS discs before you started the Disney?" Of course, he forgot. Manager was puzzled on this, but had to explain to him that there are sections of timecode that matches from one film to another where that bit of timecode can sync up to a different set of DTS discs and will play that section of content from the disc. Manager wrote up the kid to ensure that he remembers to get the discs switched before starting any split bill feature in any house.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-05-2013 08:45 AM                        quote: Monte L. Fullmer Manager was puzzled on this, but had to explain to him that there are sections of timecode that matches from one film to another where that bit of timecode can sync up to a different set of DTS discs and will play that section of content from the disc. Yikes - I had no idea that could happen. You'd expect the designers of the system to have included a unique identifying number for each title that is encoded both on the optical timecode and on the CD, such that if the CDs in the drives do not match the ID of the film running through the projector, nothing will play.  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 12-05-2013 09:24 AM                     DTS systems do check that the title matches the discs, but just not all the time. Presumably had the screening continued uninterrupted it would have dropped back to SR when the timecode stopped matching or when a title serial number passed through.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 12-05-2013 09:25 AM                     To my knowledge, this is the case. Every DTS print/timecode has a unique serial number and discs will not play with other discs timecode signal. Wether that number is really 'unique' or might reoccur after a certain amount of releases, I don't know. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 12-05-2013 01:23 PM                     Can somebody please change the ridiculous title of this thread? It makes zero sense. Just saying.  |  IP: Logged William Kucharski Expert Film Handler Posts: 244 From: Louisville, Colorado, United States of America Registered: Oct 2012 posted 12-11-2013 02:04 AM                     Why is the thread title silly? It's a very different situation if say each screen generally only has content for that screen available to it as opposed to every screen being able to access content for any show playing in the entire complex. It helps to answer the question of how the originally quoted event may have happened.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 12-11-2013 04:26 PM                     No, it doesn't. The idea of some servers not having access to certain type of content is simply wrong and not worth considering. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Jason McMillan Film Handler Posts: 68 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Dec 2009 posted 12-11-2013 10:10 PM                     Sounds like Tyler Durden at work again, if you ask me.  |  IP: Logged

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