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Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 11-13-2004, 11:42 AM:

Here's a question...
How come in our DTS house the Polar Express has a voice-over of Tom Hanks asking for tickets (just like a little later on) before the studio logos but in the SR track there's silence?
Has anyone noticed it in the other 2 digital formats or is my dts unit on the frits?

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 11-13-2004, 12:46 PM:

Is the voice-over during a black screen? Maybe someone cut it off before the studio logo on your other print. (You said it was the one in the DTS house, so I'm assuming it's another print) Check the other print to see if Tom Hanks asks for the tickets after Racing Stripes but before your Policy trailer. [Wink]

Also, is the voice-over coming from the front or from the surrounds? Maybe one of your channels isn't working in SR for some reason.

=TMP=

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 11-13-2004, 04:18 PM:

Also are you sure it sounds like it's supposed to be there? I've seen DTS units play a random snippet of sound from later in the movie right at the beginning of the feature or a trailer, then jump to where they're supposed to be.

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 11-13-2004, 05:47 PM:

Any bet you have some spurious time code on the section of film preceeding the feature

Posted by Antonio Marcheselli (Member # 373) on 11-15-2004, 12:06 PM:

I had ONCE a problem like this. Between a DTS logo and a THX the player (6D) played one moment of the "Bounty" THX trailer (seemed to me)... Never happened again and no extraneous timecode between the logos, just spliced toghether...

Bye
A

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 11-15-2004, 04:50 PM:

Sorry for being so vauge.

Both prints are uncut from the head (after the racing stripes trailer which was removed previously).
Each contain the same amount of black film.
The voice-over is in the correct, center, chanell and the background noise is wherever.

Posted by Steve Scott (Member # 630) on 11-15-2004, 05:14 PM:

Swap the prints and see if the problem repeats itself in different auditoriums.

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 11-16-2004, 02:23 PM:

I intend to do that tomorrow before the first show.
No one else has noticed this in their DTS houses?
Strange indeed it is.

Posted by Ryan Gardner Smith (Member # 2818) on 11-17-2004, 04:43 AM:

I know that that voice over did NOT appear when I ran it in an SRD house. I believe we have a print running in an SDDS house and a DTS house, I'm so curious I'm going to check both of them tomorrow.

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 11-22-2004, 12:03 PM:

Well, we swapped the prints last week with the same result.
Strange indeed.

Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 11-22-2004, 08:17 PM:

I doubt that it is just a coincidence that a freaked out timecode happened to pull up the "tickets please" dialog. It sounds pretty intentional and appropriate before the feature starts.

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 11-23-2004, 06:03 PM:

That was my original reaction.
The question is, why is it only on the DTS track?
Has anyone else noticed it in their DTS houses?