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Author Topic: UK student cinema - help! Matthew Sheppard Film Handler Posts: 4 From: Bournemouth, UK Registered: Jun 2003 posted 06-27-2003 06:34 AM                     Howdy all, We're in the final stages of launching our student cinema at Surrey - we have been allocated finance for the install and have a quote from Future Projections that suits our needs. However, we just had a bomb dropped on us - the finance committee is refusing to release the funds for the install until they've seen three seperate quotes from three different companies. I can only think of one other UK cinema installed - Sound Associates. Can anyone recommend another installer that I can get a quote off?  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-27-2003 06:45 AM                        Omnex Bell Theatre Services  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-27-2003 06:46 AM                         |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 06-27-2003 08:16 AM                     Thanks Dick! I've pm'ed you contact details Matthew, but in case that doesn't work, give Ged Atherton a call on 0161 477 7633.  |  IP: Logged William Phillips Expert Film Handler Posts: 117 From: Cardigan, Wales, UK Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-27-2003 10:57 AM                        Jack Roe (CS)Ltd Sound Associates  |  IP: Logged Michael Harlow Expert Film Handler Posts: 170 From: Faversham, Kent, UK Registered: Jul 2002 posted 06-27-2003 03:27 PM                     Cinex Sales Wynmondham Norfolk or Peter Hall / Future Projections  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 06-27-2003 04:06 PM                     What equipment are you planning on buying?  |  IP: Logged Ben Wales Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 602 From: Southampton. England Registered: Jul 99 posted 06-27-2003 04:48 PM                     Also Ron Cross at Western Cinema Services. sorry do not have contact number to hand.  |  IP: Logged Mike Rendall Film Handler Posts: 78 From: Southampton, Hampshire, UK Registered: Nov 2002 posted 06-28-2003 04:18 AM                     If you are after cinemeccanica gear, give Nigel Shore a call at NSS imagineering - Tel 01202 524021 or Fax 01202 536351. email : nigelshore@btopenworld.com. He lives on the South coast and is ex-sound associates. He installed all the 70mm kit at our University (Southampton). Photos are on Union Films  |  IP: Logged David Graham Rose Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: Cambridge, UK Registered: Sep 2002 posted 06-28-2003 09:37 AM                     The most professional installations that my research team and I have viewed in recent years are those from Bell Theatre Services Ltd. There is highly specialised knowlage base there with regard to sound systemsin particular (to which a number of my research papers refer) and appear to be leading the field in digital cinema technology at the moment. They can also supply projectors from various high quality manufacturers, and offer an unrivalled technical support service - extending should you wish - throughout the weekend. From Cambridge, good afternoon. David  |  IP: Logged David Graham Rose Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: Cambridge, UK Registered: Sep 2002 posted 06-28-2003 09:41 AM                     In my eagerness to post a reply, I omitted the contact details for Bell Theatre Services. They can be reached at 9b Chester Road Borehamwood Herts WD6 1LT Tel: 020 8238 6000 www.bell-theatre.com Just ask to speak to Sean, he has been most helpful in dealing with my enquiries in the past. (Mention my name and he may give you a discount!!)  |  IP: Logged Hugh McCullough Expert Film Handler Posts: 147 From: Old Coulsdon, Surrey, UK Registered: Jan 2003 posted 06-28-2003 05:40 PM                        Try Future Projections Ltd of London. www.fproj.com They supply everything from excitor lamps to complete installations.  |  IP: Logged Ken McFall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 615 From: Haringey, London. Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-28-2003 06:02 PM                     OK so what do you want..... Peter Hall will give you a working system at whatever level you need. Don't like the guy but he will give you what you want at a price level that no one else can match. The quality of the work will be dependant on the end price.... he's a business man after all!!! Sound associates and Bell Theatre will gie a you a quality install based on just that!... quality. The point of this is that YOU decide what you want, cheap and cheerful and working... then stick with Peter. Or Very high quality and very expensive. Quality that you may not need then go with any of the others.... Peter will give you a working system at a price you can afford. He offers a service that the 'bigger' guys cannot. He also offers a higher quality service.... you pay's your money and make your choice. You make no mention of what equipment you have been quoted... that has a direct relation to comments here? Can you be more precise!"  |  IP: Logged Matthew Sheppard Film Handler Posts: 4 From: Bournemouth, UK Registered: Jun 2003 posted 06-29-2003 10:13 AM                     Cheers for the suggestions, guys. We already have a Vic 5 projector (ex of Union Films down at Southampton University) which was in good mechanical order but hasn't been used for a year. We need to get the Vic 5 serviced and installed and also we need get a sound system for theatre installed. We are looking at a DTS6AD as the core of the sound installation.  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 06-29-2003 10:41 AM                     Matthew I really wouldn't recomend a DTS6AD as your primary source. Whilst there is nothing wrong with these units, or the format as such, from my experience, as you are not a first run cinema, and not part of a major cinema chain, the bottom line is that you will not receive discs, and the 6AD will spend most of it's life running SR analogue, which there is nothing inherently wrong with, but if you want digital sound, for a venue and operation such as yours, the 6AD is not for you.  |  IP: Logged

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