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Posted by Laurie Higgins (Member # 4843) on 07-30-2011, 07:16 PM:

I am having a problem with Cowboys and Aliens, the Dolby drops out for the attached trailer, which is Battleship and stays out for the first 20 seconds of the feature.

I checked and the Dobly soundtrack is on the film and looks normal.

Any ideas what is going on?

Thanks!

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 07-30-2011, 07:25 PM:

...could be a print issue if your system is functioning normally .. it's not uncommon for this to happen.

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 08-06-2011, 07:25 PM:

It's just one of those things...

Friday night I was running through a print of Rise Of The Apes, The first two trailers in are brand new, running through the projector for the very first time they both drop to sr and give a fairly steady F reading throughout. The next two trailers are fairly old and have been run through many times - both run in SRD with no problems, as does the feature.

Just one of those things.

Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 08-11-2011, 06:09 PM:

I have a feeling that quality control is just non existant on 35mm now. I've opened 3 prints, 3 weeks in a row that have issues with the dolby digital sound. Replaced reels in all 3, and 2 of them still drop out no matter what house they are in.