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Topic: Orphaned DTS disks
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Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.
Posts: 3686
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 06-02-2001 01:36 AM
Tell those twits that if they don't start returning the discs with the prints that you'll take their DTS players to a theater that does!Or make up a fake invoice from DTS charging the theater for the missing discs. Specifically list some of the titles you found. Or, just tell them to return the discs or find a new job. Really, though, you could probably send them back to DTS (as Technicolor will claim that the studio didn't want to pay for that service). I've called DTS a couple of times for discs on special events where the depot didn't have a set. Hey, Karen! Do you want 'em back?
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-02-2001 07:34 AM
It was exageration. I have seen disks for just about all the movies played in the last year, though.Personally, I have a rule. There are three and ONLY three places you are allowed to put a DTS disk: 1) In the player.
2) In the can.
3) In your hand, en-route between 1 and2. No setting them on top of the racks, not setting them on the shelf. No, "Oh, I'll put them back later." NO! NO! NO! The only exception is when you have two movies playing in the same theatre. We had a way to handle that, too. Do you remember when Coke/Universal Studios had that "Get Caught Red Handed" promotion? Well, if you got 100% on your trailer checks you won T-shirts and junk. We got a whole box of CD holders. We took a bunch of those and hung them up on the side of the sound racks. IF, and ONLY if you had two or more movies playing in one house you were allowed to put them in one of those cases. Honestly, this kind of laziness just pisses me off. 
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-03-2001 02:08 AM
Ooh! I just got my Christie booths all running with two brains again. A lot of them were busted and I spent a lot of time fixing them up again.The main reason I wanted them to use two brains is because when they pull the one from the middle or bottom decks they would sometimes bash them against the bottom of the deck above. First, this was smashing up the rollers, etc. Second, there have been a couple of occasions where the threading lamp above the brain got smashed and shorted out. This would cause all sorts of electrical problems. I like the idea of putting the disks on top of the "waiting" print so they don't forget to put it in the player. There was one time when the print was badly scratched. They weren't putting the disks in the player and it was running in analogue. I had to point out to them that since this print was so trashed, the ONLY thing we have left to offer the people was digital sound. That's the LEAST we could offer customers for their $7.00 and they weren't even doing that! Boy! Was I pissed off! 
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