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Posted by Michael Elam (Member # 788) on 05-28-2002, 01:47 PM:
Does Sony/SDDS have a website, how about a question/answer section?
Posted by Patrik Becker (Member # 924) on 05-28-2002, 02:44 PM:
www.sdds.com
Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 05-28-2002, 02:44 PM:
Michael, Michael, MICHAEL! www.sdds.com
You didn't think it could be that easy, did you?
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Posted by Michael Elam (Member # 788) on 05-28-2002, 03:48 PM:
Thanks, I did try www.Sony.com and www.sonycinema.com
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 05-28-2002, 06:59 PM:
The SDDS site may be easy to find. But it doesn't seem like the webmasters have an easy time updating it. I think it has been something like 2 years since the last update.
Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 05-30-2002, 03:08 PM:
quote:
The SDDS site may be easy to find. But it doesn't seem like the webmasters have an easy time updating it. I think it has been something like 2 years since the last update.
"More than 500 films have been and are scheduled for release in SDDS by summer 1999"
Yeah 
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 05-30-2002, 04:23 PM:
Yeah, they need an update. It hasn't been touched since November 2000:code:
$ telnet www.sdds.com 80
Trying 64.37.137.66...
Connected to sdds.com (64.37.137.66).
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/2.01
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 19:37:31 GMT
Accept-ranges: bytes
Last-modified: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 03:22:59 GMT
Content-length: 8560
Content-type: text/html
Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 05-30-2002, 05:02 PM:
The person who maintained the site left the company to become an independent consultant about the time the site stop being updated. Their information site may be out of date but the site regarding equipment sales handled by Sony dealers is updated ( with a prompt to the user to do so ) as needed with price / specs / availability.
Richard Fowler
TVP-Theatre & Video Products Inc. www.tvpmiami.com
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 05-31-2002, 06:12 PM:
I hate maintaining websites, but I wonder if SDDS would be interested in paying for some freelance graphics work?
Posted by Mike Williams (Member # 1140) on 06-01-2002, 04:53 PM:
Isn't SDDS being discontinued by Sony anyway?
Posted by Les Brock (Member # 1041) on 06-13-2002, 12:40 PM:
No, SDDS isnt being discontinued. There will also be a new look Website online soon and it will be updated at regular intervals
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 06-13-2002, 01:10 PM:
Les --- will you or someone from the UK office of Sony be coordinating the site? Or will it still be handled out of Culver City?------------------
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Posted by Les Brock (Member # 1041) on 06-14-2002, 03:48 PM:
John,The site will be maintained from the US.
However it will be easier for Sony engineers and other staff at SDDS to have input and get it uploaded to the site.
The new site will contain much more comprehensive details on all aspects of SDDS from the studio, printmastering, negative recording through to laboratory printing as well as support for the player systems in theatres.
Posted by John Moriarty (Member # 1153) on 06-15-2002, 04:43 PM:
Sorry, wrong topic, please ignore/delete.
Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 06-15-2002, 04:46 PM:
The SDDS trailers to download?? 
Posted by Les Brock (Member # 1041) on 06-15-2002, 05:37 PM:
Michael,As I understand it the SDDS trailers will be downloadable from the site including the original "Pyramid" trailer
Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 06-16-2002, 07:50 AM:
Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 06-16-2002, 01:09 PM:
But SDDS boxen still have to get sent out for repair by the same people who fix VCR's and VAIO's? Is that correct? If so then someone's priorities are screwed up. Or did I read that wrong?
Posted by Les Brock (Member # 1041) on 06-20-2002, 02:28 PM:
Steve,Here in Europe the engineer who repairs SDDS equipment is trained specifically for that brand.
At the repair centre at Sony UK there is an engineer who fixes all SDDS readers, boards etc.
He does not fix Vaios or VCR's.
But even if he did whats the problem with that ?