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Topic: SRD Readers
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RICK HAMILTON
Film Handler
Posts: 28
Registered: Aug 1999
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posted 08-21-1999 11:51 PM
Maybe someone has an explanation for this? I just went through a 16-plex consisting of CHRISTIE's with basement readers and cleaned up their digital. The theatre is only about 15 months old and most of the digital was reading about 4./F . Some of the units would just give up and stay in SR. I cleaned up all of the pulleys and the CCD's, putting on the gaskets to keep the dust and crap out of the readers. With the L.E.D.'s all maxed out, all I could get was about 3 volts of video voltage. This is o.k., because the error rate on all of them is down to anywhere from a 2. to a 4. , but they are running solid and not faulting out. My question is this.....after I got done, in house "A" the previews ran great, but as soon as the feature started, the film faulted to SR. The error rate was again about 4./F. After the show ended, I ran a trailer pack that ran a solid 3. occasionally a 4. When the film started up again, the same thing....previews ran about 3./4 then the feature would fault out with about 4./F. I was convinced that it was a print problem. The next day.....This feature ran in a different auditorium and ran almost perfect. A solid 3 almost the whole film. This led me to believe that "house A" was not aligned properly. I ran the film that they moved to "house A" and it also ran at a solid 3. This tells me that the alignment in house "A" is correct, but why wouldn't that first film read digital in there? please enlighten me!
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Brad Miller
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Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 08-22-1999 12:27 AM
The whole basement SRD reader thing in my opinion is a bad idea. You will always get better results with a penthouse reader. That being said...Just like SDDS, every SRD print is a little bit different. Also, every reader will be aligned slightly different. No two prints or readers are alike. Did you run Apt Pupil in SDDS? Everyone I talked to had problems with this title. However, it was possible to tweek the SDDS reader to track this title...but at the expense of the trailers. The same is also true of SRD. Some prints will be better than others and some readers will be just different than another to track the film. I'm curious of how that second print in auditorium "A" played in the other auditorium. Also, what were the titles? How long have they been out? Does this theater take care of their print? Any possible scratches or abrasions on the SRD track?
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