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Posted by Tom Kroening (Member # 201) on 01-27-2000, 10:26 AM:
Hey, lately we've been having DTS problems with one of our projectors. Sometimes the show runs fine, other times halfway through the show (or sometimes even during the trailors) the sound just goes to a loud static noise or wooshing. It seems like maybe the dts is failing and the analog doesn't pick up. To fix the problem we stop the movie, turn the dts unit of and run the film in stereo analog. Anyone have ideas? The auditorium that has the dts also has the second best speaker setup at my theatre so i'd like to get it sounding good.
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-27-2000, 11:56 AM:
It's your main audio board. I'd tell you the part number, but I never committed them to memory as DTS units virtually never fail! Give DTS a call and they can tell you. I think their repair/exchange was around $300-350.Anyway, this happened to me about a month ago and was only happening in one channel. After I swapped that board and rebalanced, everything was fine. So let's see here. I've now had exactly one SRD failure, one DTS failure and one hundred flabillion failures on SDDS over the last several years. Still not a bad track record for DTS, as they constitute the majority of digital players in my area.
(Actually I'm kidding about the flabillion number on SDDS, as I lost count on those a long time ago.)
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-27-2000, 11:56 AM:
If you're losing all digital sound when the noise comes on, call DTS, a board's on the blink. There could also be a loose connection somewhere inside.
Posted by Tom Kroening (Member # 201) on 01-27-2000, 05:06 PM:
Brad, I think i remember one of the other projectionists mentioning that it was only the center channel doing it now that you mention it. I never actually went into the auditorium while it was happening because there was a full house both times for me and i was more concerned with keeping the show running. Thanks alot ill see what i can do.