I was told that no matter what disc you have in the DTS player,
the movie will play that disc.

The weird part is, that I dont think the movie even has a timecode on it.

What could the reader be seeing? - The green light was not on when I remembered
to checked this out during the credits - and I could not see any timecode.
(Ive only ran that one session since being told of the problem)

The only extra info I can give is that an usher told me that the sound track of
Devine Secrets of Ya Ya Sisters was playing when the movie on screen was WillFull.

BTW: With the amount of print moving we have to do, often the wrong discs are left
in the player, but are they not coded to not play if its the wrong disc?

Bill Langfield

 

I believe that if you have big problems in timecode reding the player CAN play the wrong title.
But a well working player WILL NOT play the incorrect disk. On the timecode there is also the code of the movie.

Bye
Antonio
 

If a wrong disk is placed inside the unit, the unit obviously does not respond at all and the ULTRA-JSX which I have reverts immediately to the ANALOG. In fact, of all the stuff in my projector, the sturdiest and perfect of all, I would say, is the DTS 6D unit I have.

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And the Fox Fanfare over the Columbia logo....awesome!

Frank

How's this. Once I ran MY FAIR LADY and there, on reel, the one that contained the "Take Me To The Church On Time" number, that reel was subtitled in Spanish. So the audience is watching maybe a hour of the movie, and boom, without warning or explanation, all of a sudden there are Spanish subtitles on the bottom of the picture. 12 minutes later, reel change, and boom, back to normal....talk about hearing a murmor of bewilderment running through the theatre! Some thought it was a Spanish sing-along.
 

In this case I'd guess (i) - the film was distributed by Fox in the US, so their fanfare went on the DTS discs. But in Italy the film was distributed by Columbia, who imported a batch of US discs which still had the Fox fanfare on the start.

But (ii) does happen though - for example, at the start of the Robert Harris restoration of Vertigo you see a Universal logo immediately followed by a Paramount one.
 

I was not clear! I was projecting a Columbia movie with timecode but with no disks available. I put the DTS logo but only few hours later I was told that there are no DTS disks for that film in Italy. So I planned to remove the DTS logo and replace it with a DD one but in the meantime I put an "anna and the king" (Fox) disk in the player just to have the logo played in DTS sound. However, after the DTS logo the player started with the fox fanfare (but was continuously drop in DD since the reader were very old). I suppose that having bad reader (and bad timecode) caused the player to see the wrong title.

I repeat: was an old player (with bad drives) with bad readers. In effect, I wonder why I used to use it at that time!

Now we have the player and the readers repaired and all is perfect.

Bye
Antonio
 

Could it have been the player "reading ahead"? On the discs, the sound data for the film (anna and the king) could have been immediately after the sound data for the DTS logo. Thus, the player went right on ahead and contiuned playing until a few seconds later when the other timecode kicked in.

We had something similar happen with a couple Universal titles. We usually spliced the attatched trailer just before the policy trailer. I remember there being a few frames between the attatched trailer and the feature where there was no soundtrack, so I cut just before that. Lo and behold, the attatched trailer plays through in DTS, and when our policy trailer came on, (analog) we had the Universal theme playing for a few seconds into the policy. When the feature came on, the Universal theme began again in DTS.

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Do you mean if DTS logo sound is part of reel 1? It could be but I remember that at that time I had to run immediately in the booth to turn off the player because the player was continuing kick in DTS and drop in DD with Anna and the king! (due to the bad timecode readers)

If the player play the Fox fanfare for few moments and then drop definitively in DD I could agree with you!

Bye
Antonio
 

All DTS movie discs have a serial number in the software that must match the serial number on the film. If the two don't match, then the disc will not play.

If discs are playing without film running, then they have left their setup disc in the player. They need to take out the setup disc.

If the discs is playing with any film then what could be happening is some of the leader for the first film was accidently spliced onto the second film. Maybe this happened when they were building the print... ??? If they are using black leader, please tell them to carefully inspect it to be sure it has no timecode on it. Other than that, if all discs are playing with any film, have them replace their D422 timecode board (inside the player).

Karen at DTS
khultgren@dtsonline.com