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Author Topic: DTS Disks & Movietunes Marc Hansen Film Handler Posts: 93 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-11-2007 09:21 AM                     Gordon- Thats what I thought, give the audience a reel feel for the difference between "tv" and a real movie. Marc  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 07-12-2007 11:46 AM                     Dennis, May I recommend The Man From Snowy River soundtrack, if you can find it on cd. The kiddies won't like it, but they don't really rule the world, anyway. It was distributed by Varese Sarabande.  |  IP: Logged Brad Allen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 688 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 07-12-2007 02:32 PM                     XM or Directv satellite can be licensed for public play. Much better choice than movietunes.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-12-2007 07:34 PM                        do you have to pay royalties on pink noise? i'll take that over movietunes.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 07-12-2007 10:25 PM                     Royalty based music delivery services such as DMX offer packages that have great middle of the road type stuff, past and current hits with good melodies and never offensive. Its probably not the cheapest option but new discs arrive periodically and we've never had complaints at my restaurant. Probably a biased view of great music since not many 21 year olds have 78's. But everyone loves the Tavares still right?  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-13-2007 10:18 AM                    Agreed with XM. That is probably the best and most reasonable way to go. I still say that it would be really nice if licensing the movie in your theater included automatic licensing of the movie's soundtrack. Then you could simply install a CD player in each house, and load up that movie's soundtrack, and you'd be good to go.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-13-2007 11:24 AM                        That would be OK sometimes, but a lot of soundtrack albums suck. If the album says "Music from and inspired by," that's an automatic suck indicator.  |  IP: Logged Brad Allen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 688 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 07-13-2007 12:40 PM                     Agreed Mike. I've received many "promo" soundtracks for films over the years. Holy cow, there is a reason they were sending them out for free.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-13-2007 03:15 PM                     We also use XM. but have locking thermostat covers mounted over the receiver so curious hands can't change the stations on you when you are supposed to be playing soft music and the curious one wants to listen to hip hop rap, or something that will scare your customers away through the system while working when the mgr is not present. Or, just unsubscribe to these stations from XM when signing up.. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-15-2007 05:29 PM                        Good showmanship requires creative hooks that draw the crowds. Running MovieTunes? How's this hook: with every ticket purchase, the patron gets a special MovieTune Barf Bag. They will be of great comfort to patrons and cleanup crew as well....especially the cleanup crew who will be spared all that messy cleanup when MovieTunes causes those inevitable upchucks. MovieTunes = crass, inane, trashy, obnoxiosity squared. What makes them think ANYONE comes to the theatre to hear an annoying "radio station" that everyone knows is NOT a radio station, especially since the thing that everyone would like in an ideal radio station is one that has NO yammering disc jocky? So here is the preshow time where mood music could easily be played -- just music, but instead, they purposely insert just what we hate about radio stations -- asshole disc jockies babbling like someone with a lobotomy and on crack! It's idiotic and maddening and shows about as much class as a toilet seat.  |  IP: Logged Blaine Young Master Film Handler Posts: 477 From: Kirkland, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 07-31-2007 03:33 PM                     The current issue of "Movie Tunes" has a track from the Broadway play "Legally Blonde - The Musical". I've never wanted to gouge my ears out so badly in my entire life. When this edition expires, I'm going to microwave the disc.  |  IP: Logged Michael Tripp Film Handler Posts: 7 From: Amherst, MA, USA Registered: Jul 2007 posted 07-31-2007 08:27 PM                        Satellite radio stations (Sirius or XM) are good for background music as well. They don't have ads like regular radio stations and there are a couple rather innocuous stations that would work well in a theater. At the very least, they have a couple classical stations. Programming your own music is alright too. I think it's fine to ignore ASCAP/BMI licensing as well. The chance you'll get caught is slim and the penalties aren't much. If you want to go legit, licensing fees aren't all that much either -- maybe more than you want to pay, but not that much. Really, anything that stops you from playing Movie Tunes is good though.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-01-2007 01:19 AM                        XM has a channel that plays movie soundtracks and also dialogue snips from famous films. We played that channel before the first show of "Star Wars Episode III" because they were playing tracks from all the previous SW movies. The fans loved it.  |  IP: Logged Michael Tripp Film Handler Posts: 7 From: Amherst, MA, USA Registered: Jul 2007 posted 08-01-2007 01:35 AM                        The big theater around here had a band dressed up like stormtroopers playing music from the movie for the midnight opening show of Episode III. ...or so I heard. I gave up on the Star Wars prequels before Episode III came out, having fallen asleep in the theater during Episode I and turned Episode II off midway through while watching it at home, despite telling myself that I would watch it all the way through no matter what. It still sounded pretty cool though.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 08-01-2007 03:08 AM                     What about playing the soundtracks stream, or any of the channels on sky.fm? However... the chances are they are licensed for private playback. On Foxtel (cable) here in Australia they have dedicated music channels which rarely ever suck, but probably under the same licensing class.  |  IP: Logged

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