Just a moment... waiting for timecode reader reset

Then it won't do a thing...

I'm just experimenting a little bit, because I found a disc that got lost in our theater (btw a bad thing ofcourse... nothing hill)

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1. Install all of the DTS playback hardware cards.

2. Install a DTS timecode reader (or use a DTS timecode generator, which costs more than a reader, IIRC).

3. Install 2 or 3 SCSI CDROM drives and SCSI controller tha is compatible with the DTS hardware.

4. Have a DTS print handy that matches your discs (not necessary if you had a t/c gen)

By the time this is all done you'd be better off getting a real DTS unit, as that way would be cheaper.

Running DTS.exe on most PC's usually does nothing, sometimes it makes your system reboot. Without timecode its useless.

Aaron

Remember that old guy "George" who used to come to the Greenwood every now and then? You would give him DTS discs, as he claimed he could play them on his PC. He liked to listen to the music scores, etc...

Can you explain this? How was he able to do this? Or was he just insane like I have always thought? I think they eventually banned him from the theater if I remember correctly, after you left.

Because if you can read the files (.AUD) you should be able to decode them using special software. However I don't know if such a program exists... Maybe you can fake the timecode reader with some software trick.

It seems to me that the original DTS hardware consists primary of computer hardware products (on a DTS disc is a program DTS.exe which runs at a dos prompt... in the DTS directory is a .txt file)

I don't know how that hardware works because we don't use it... Is there a option display with 3 options like the dts.exe program produces?

I select 2 and Enter. Wait to have the track list.
I select the track and I press enter, the player goes in Digital and I can hear the soundtrack in the theater without print.
I enjoy myself listening all THX trailer, sometimes!
I have to do all these operations without see any screen of course. I think that with a VGA card onboard you should see also the screens. IMHO a VGA card could be useful because the screen "play with timecode" contains many many useful information: number of break, status of the player, etc etc.
So since on my PC dts disks are able to spin up my CD rom, I think that install all audio cards in a PC could be enought.
Joe,
DTS's codec is not propietary. It is APTX100 (www.aptx.com). Just buy few chips (in a DTS you can find 5 of them) and build your own sound card!!!

With Cool edit I was able to partially decode a .au track and I was able to hear 20thfox fanfare behind something similar to the "pink noise".

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For all I knew, he was just an old man who walked around and collected cans. I don't know if he could read the DVD on his CD-ROM drive or not.

But one thing he did tell me was that I was too smart to be wasting my life working for UA and that I should get off my butt and do something else. So I did.

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