Oh and have you seen the size of that extended play DTS disk

And look it runs changeovers!

Other points...

Look at the wasted frames in between the SRD and SDDS readers. That cheezy door should have been removed and the film should have been threaded straight down from one reader to the next never returning to the 70mm rollers, for there was no reason to go back over to the left.

I don't think that the SDDS2000 model can perform quite that much delay, but it might. Regardless, from the changeover masters I have spoken to on this, using this model reader in a changeover setup commands that it have the lowest offset possible due to it's buffer...and that's definitely way too much delay.

Also, clearly these readers were mounted in order of weight. The CDS reader pictured does not have the bypass rollers installed, so this prevents bypassing the film through (or technically "around") that penthouse. Since the CDS reader has such an incredible amount of drag to it and is very rough on film, you would most certainly NOT want to thread anything through it except for an actual CDS print. However, since it is SOOOOOO heavy, mounting it on the top is not very ideal due to the high center of gravity that would accompany it. (In other words, it would cause the entire machine to shake if the film was not platter-fed to the projector, which would be visible on screen.)

Also, none of this even takes into account the fact that a couple of these readers are improperly threaded resulting in digital failures and scratched film. But of course that doesn't matter either because no one bothered to hook up the cabling to the readers!

Finally, where's the 70mm dts reader?

Good thing this is obviously a joke, for that tech who set this up would be looking for a new job. Below is a more realistic approach I set up last year, but again the problem here is the top heavy weight of the CDS reader. This layout could handle a 6000 foot reel of film, does not require such a ridiculous amount of height in the booth to pull off and it did work, which Joe and Dwayne can attest to. (Note the 70mm dts reader above the changeover that utilized the cat 701 70mm bypass rollers to feed the film into the mag penthouse.)

This simultaneously satisfies the demands of the proponents of and film stock manufacturers !!

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