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Topic: Technical and commercial questions about DTS
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Miguel Angel Martorell
Film Handler
Posts: 81
From: Valencia, Spain
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 12-09-2002 07:39 PM
I work for a local company (not multinational) but it has 10 multitheatres and 40 screens more or less. The owners had almost the 80% of theatres in Valencia but now these days are gone with the arrival of Kinepolis, Warner, etc so the owners asked the employees about ideas to improve the service. I must say that the film presentation is brilliant thanks to "old projectionists" with more of 30 years of experience but to make people come to our screens this is not enough. All the projectionist agree with one of our strenghts is that if you wanna hear a DTS soundtrack you have to come to our 3 bigger screens (none of the other companies installed DTS in Valencia ??????) The problem is, how can I tell the people I have DTS?. Of course we have the two traylers (they are a little used) before every show but I mean, does DTS offer any kind of products like posters, booklets, standees, something like the WOW trayler of THX, etc that help to inform the people?. How can my company get this things. Directly from DTS Spain or from an authorized dealer like Proyecson?
In the technical aspect, we think that the first thing to do is install a DTS ES adapter in our 3 DTS 6 units but the first answer was: How much it cost?? so I transcribe the question.
Another idea is to make shows in V.O. ´cause I read here that although I have a castillian spanish dubbed version, if I play the english disks, the picture will sound in english ´cause the timecode is the same for all lenguages. Am I right?. Is it difficult to get disks of the original version in other countries?.
Well, sorry for my english and thanks in advance.
By the way, in one of our prints of HP2 both SR and SRD tracks failed in a few scenes. We change the bad print to the DTS screen and NO PROBLEM.
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Karen Hultgren
Master Film Handler
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Posts: 492
From: Agoura Hills, CA, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 12-10-2002 12:52 PM
Miguel,
You can get free marquee signs, DTS promo trailers, and posters for your theater. Please send me an email on what you'd like and I can have them send to you. I'll also need the shipping address for your theater.
In regards to the DTS-ES, it's list price is $1,875.00 USD. We only sell through dealers and they can give you a better price. All our dealers are listed on our web site at www.dtsonline.com/cinema.
In regards to the VO, we have a unit called he DTS-CSS that might be of interest. This unit can be programmed to send out alternate languages. Let me know if you are interested in learning more.
If you would rather play the film in another language, contact the film distribuator and order the film in that language. Sometimes all you need are new discs but if changes have been made from the original, then you'll need new print and discs. Your distribuator should know.
Karen at DTS khultgren@dtsonline.com
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