How do policy trailers play on DTS setups.

Will it just drop out to analog like all the non-dts trailers, or does the DTS trailer disk also contain the policy trailers for different theatres?

I have heared a DTS drop to analog using an Ultra-Stereo processor, and the audio quality is almost unlistenable. I imagine it will drop to analog when the policy trailer roles through, but I cant fathom that the theatres would allow their policy trailers to be playing in analog.

(edited 4-18-02 by Mike Olpin to remove location info.)

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For instance, the April 5th dts trailer disc claims to have (according to the artwork):

DTS Sonic Landsacpe
DTS Digital Experience
THX Cavalcade Trl
THX Broadway
THX Grand
THX Tex
THX Tex II
Kodak Men in White
Kodak Million Hours

The disc seems to have:

code:

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No FILENAME   SERIAL      TC's   MIN:SC:FR     Feet.Fr     FILE LEN
-- --------   ------      ----   ---------     -------     --------
01 dtssonic      735       810     0:27:00      40.08     2,976,750
02      dts     1045      1200     0:40:00      60.00     4,410,000
03 thxbrdwy       15      1140     0:38:00      57.00     4,189,500
04 thxgrand       56      1170     0:39:00      58.08     4,299,750
05  thxtex1       71      1440     0:48:00      72.00     5,292,000
06  tex2moo      257      1230     0:41:00      61.08     4,520,250
07 thxcavtl     1404      1068     0:35:18      53.06     3,924,900
55 menwhtrl      890      1860     1:02:00      93.00     6,835,500
56 kodktst1      914      1890     1:03:00      94.08     6,945,750
57  sil2sec        0        70     0:02:10       3.08     0,257,250

---

simpsons
tex2
cinemtrl
cineimax
timesliv
jbllogo
pepsiacd
pepsihot
pepafi.0
pepaf.0r
startrlb
wilrog99

I believe "cinemtrl" was a Cinemark policy, but I could certainly be wrong.

Incidently, the above formatted list came from "preview.txt" instead of "r14trlr.txt" on the DTS disc. I only recently noticed those on there. Does anyone know when they started being added?

I assume it's used by the display on the 6AD, though it seems
pretty weird, since all the fields in preview.txt:

code:

---

No FILENAME   SERIAL      TC's   MIN:SC:FR     Feet.Fr     FILE LEN

---

code:

---

;NAME           SERIAL  START   END     OFFSET

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p.s.: Hey Brad, is there some way to format text in <PRE> in UBB, so tables like the above don't look so bad (other than as an inlined image)?

Josh

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Your analog sound shouldn't be THAT bad, compared to digital. You have a problem there, somewhere.
Stupid question... apology in advance... When was the last time you cleaned the lens in the sound head? Crappy lenses can lead to REALLY crappy sound. It's an easy thing to forget.

Ultra*Stereo processors may not be the best processors (opinions vary) but they aren't THAT bad. Properly calibrated, and with a properly adjusted A-Chain in the projector, you ought to be able to get decent sound out of them.

DO call your theatre's technician and tell him the problem. Unless you have some major problem, he should be able to get your sound back to the way it should be in one or two evening's work.
It's easy to do if you have the equipment and know-how.

Josh

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