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Manny Knowles
"What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???"
Posts: 4247
From: Bloomington, IN, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-05-2002 06:53 AM
According to Scoreboard April 5, 2002Releases with SDDS-8 Channel Audio (2002) Rollerball (MGM)
The Time Machine (DreamWorks)
The Sweetest Thing (Sony)
Spiderman (Sony)
Scooby-Doo (Warner Bros.)
Windtalkers (MGM)
Men In Black II (Sony)*
Stuart Little 2 (Sony) *Note: MIIB is the only SDDS-8 release also featuring a Dolby Digital-EX track. (That ought to make it SDDS-9, right?)
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~Manny.
"The brown acid that is circulating around is not specifically too good." -- An announcement in the film, "Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music."
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Michael Brown
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1522
From: Bradford, England
Registered: May 2001
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posted 06-05-2002 07:40 AM
SDDS has surround information. 8 channel SDDS is
left, left-center,center,right-center,right,bass,L-surround,R-surround As far as i am you run the whole system just with one sound system. SDDS for the front and say DTS for the surrounds would not be possible and why would you want to do that anyway??? Its debatale weather there is SDDDS EX. Although SRD/dts/sdds are all made from the same digital master so the surround tracks on the SDDS should still conmtain the EX matrix (If its an EX film) An example film: SR/SRDEX/DTSES/SDDS8 An cinema that has an SDDS8 decoder and an EX decoder should be able to run the film in 8 channel SDDS EX (ie 9 channel SDDS, or 8.1 SDDS to use the .l as bass naming system)
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 06-05-2002 06:19 PM
A digital sound mix tailored for Surround EX will play properly regardless of digital sound format. You can feed the analog surround outputs from any digital sound processor into a DTS-ES unit or Dolby SA-10. So basically, yes, you can have a "SDDS-EX" release.However, SDDS-EX is NOT "8.1" or "9-channel". An SDDS-8 mix is still 7.1 channel regardless if Surround EX is used or not. You can only call it 9-channel or 8.1 if the Center Surround channel is discrete. And none of the theatrical extended surround processors offer that. Only home DTS-ES 6.1 has a truly discrete center surround channel. Many people are very wrongly describing the matrix-derived center surround channel of Dolby Digital Surround EX as "6.1". Dolby Labs' own marketing rules state DD-EX should be listed as EX-5.1. The same rule applies to DTS-ES and their matrix system (DTS-ES 5.1 Matrix). The 6.1 term can only be used with their discrete ES system.
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