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Author Topic: Phone Booth DTS problems Michael Rourke Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: San Luis Obispo, Central Coast of CA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-05-2003 12:59 AM                     Constantly dropping out coming back and dropping out again, anyone else having problems with their print or cd's? I know The Core had bad disks is there a known problem with Phone Booth?  |  IP: Logged Don Bruechert Mmmmmmmmm, bird! Posts: 340 From: Manitowoc, WI, USA Registered: Jan 2003 posted 04-05-2003 02:20 AM                        Just listened to it, didn't hear any problems except I had to turn it up and it seemed the right and left channels were awfully quiet in the mix. BTW, the core didn't have bad disks - they changed a song during the end credits. I ran the original disks for almost a week before I got the new ones.  |  IP: Logged Karen Hultgren Master Film Handler Posts: 492 From: Agoura Hills, CA, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-07-2003 07:16 PM                        The discs for THE CORE were not "bad", a song was changed. If your DTS player is having playback problems, try moving the discs to see if the problem follows the disc or the drive. Also, be sure that the TIMECODE light on the reader/player stays on steadily and does not blink. If it blinks, that's a sign of a bad print or your reader needs calibration. Karen at DTS khultgren@dtsonline.com  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 04-07-2003 11:20 PM                     The only problem we had with 'Phone Booth' is it actually uses the left and right channels for dialog, and we had a left HF driver was that scratchy at those voice frequencies. No problems with any DTS stuff.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-08-2003 12:24 AM                     Yes, I noticed when walking theaters that Phone Booth makes VERY cool use of the surrounds! We haven't had any DTS problems to speak of. This looks like an interesting movie after all. I should see it before it gets moved to one of the mono houses. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Mike Rendall Film Handler Posts: 78 From: Southampton, Hampshire, UK Registered: Nov 2002 posted 04-08-2003 02:58 AM                     I am posting following up the comment about changing a song on the Core. Anyone know why they did that, what if the digital dropped out to analogue - wouldn't that be a complete foul up? Does this mean that dts theatres would have one version of the credits and SR-D theatres another? Just curious, never heard of this before. Mike  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-08-2003 10:17 PM                        The issue with the trailer music for "The Core" was probably a licensing issue or maybe a last-minute change in artistic choice. If anyone knows the details, I would be curious as well. Yeah, it probably would sound very odd to have the digital track fault and revert to the optical track with a different song, but fortunately DTS usually doesn't fault randomly in the middle of a reel (though SDDS probably would). As long as the timecode track is good, the disks aren't damaged, and the player has the newer drives, it's very unlikely that DTS will fault at all. I haven't seen any problems with Phone Booth in DTS. The advance screening that I saw was in SRD and it played fine, too. I enjoyed the film and the sound mix was indeed good. Try to see this in a good-sounding house.  |  IP: Logged

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