Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: DTS

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Posted by Marin Zorica (Member # 1716) on 02-17-2004, 03:31 AM:

Hello!
I'm from croatia, in my local cinema we have a monophonic sound, before
about one or two yer we become to get a dts disc with the movies butunfortunelity we don't have dts (we even don't have stereo sound). In home [Smile]

i have a very old 35mm projector ernemann IV (made obout 1940!!! in
> germany) and it works great!. Cople yers ago i start to experimenting woth
> stereo soun and i put a two photodiodes like reder to read stereo from
> film, and made my own preamplifier for that system, the sound was stereo
> and it was better then the old mono system in some cinemas i have seen.
But
> the problem is i've trying to put sollar cell(i read the the solar cell is
> much better than the photodiode- canyou tell me why???) but in my contry
> the price of one cell is obout 180 dollars and that is to many expensive
> for me, also in my local theater i trying to get them better soun isthere
> some to find a used dolby cp 50, smart or same similar analogue processor?
> also are you have some schematic of cinem apreamp you my recomendet me to
> buil preamp, and what is cost of normal solar cell and what are
> alternatives for cell. Now lets back to start of this mail, my question
is
> can dts disc play on pc?? I know that they need timcode reder on projector
> to play the sound, but this mybe looks to enthusiastic is it possible to
> made own timecode reader conected it to pc and with some software play
> sound from disc, or play sound without timecode?
> And just one question in croatia (we are part of ex yugoslavia) we have a
> lots of yugoslavian Iskra & Polish Prexer projector are you familiary with
> them?? If you are interested i can email you some manuals, schematic, a
> simillar things:
>
> I hope You help me to clear my mind whit this things i've been thinking!!!

Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 02-17-2004, 06:07 AM:

> What's up with all those marks >> ?

Technically, DTS plays on a PC but it is a specially-made PC with boards that are quite unique and built specifically for that purpose.

So my answer to your question is no. You need to buy a DTS system. It will include a player, timecode reader and cables.