Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: DTS readers

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Posted by Jon Busch (Member # 4011) on 04-24-2013, 01:30 PM:

Does anyone have access to two 70mm DTS readers? I'm trying to play LAWRENCE OF ARABIA as the last film before film projectors go away and Sony is not sure the mag print is any good. Has anybody played it in mag recently?

Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 04-28-2013, 07:12 PM:

The are DTS 70 prints of LAWRENCE?

We used to show it in 70mm from one of the 1988 prints until Columbia sent it to South Korea where the hirers had it laser-subtitled. Except for that sort of circumstance, or the mag print being completely trashed, I'd still choose it over DTS purely on the sound quality. The DCP sounds pretty bad too, unfortunately.

(We do have two DTS 70 readers but it's probably a somewhat inconvenient distance thing for you to borrow them)

Posted by Daniel Schulz (Member # 1881) on 04-29-2013, 11:36 AM:

The Datasat (DTS) discs were made off a 48/24 digital transfer of the 6-track mag soundtrack, so other than the digital compression of the APTX encoding (which to my ear is not really noticeable) the digital track sounds good. We also made discs of the 5.1 remix, which I'm not such a fan of (but some theaters need, since many sites playing these 70mm movies only have 3 channels behind the screen).