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Author Topic: Miramax Goes Cyan Ted Costas Expert Film Handler Posts: 119 From: Hollywood, CA, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-18-2004 06:23 PM                     Miramax has announced that it will release all it's 35mm prints with cyan analog soundtracks starting January 1, 2005. MGM - Currently releasing with a majority percentage of its prints with Cyan analog soundtracks. Disney - "MR. 3000" comes out on September 17th, with 100% cyan analog soundtracks. All films by Disney will be rleased this way as of January 1, 2005. Miramax. They were the first studio to do a successful test release of the film, "Get Over It", with a handful of prints using cyan analog soundtracks. Now, they are making their support for this environmentally friendly, technology change by announcing the move. That's three out of ten. If this was baseball, we'd be a top ten hitter batting .300... Ted Williams was the last hitter to end a season with a batting average over .400. If one more Studio jumps in, we'll be batting .400 by the end of 2005. That is the plan. "Take me out to the theatre, Take me out to the crowd, Buy me some peanuts and red light readers..." Sorry, I got carried away. But I will say this, way to go Miramax! Steppin' up to the plate big time with a home run. Yours, Ted  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-18-2004 06:46 PM                    Buy me some...red light readers. Ah...commerce. Ka-ching.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-18-2004 07:08 PM                     Miramax=Disney It's the same company.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-18-2004 08:42 PM                     He hit a foul I say! Mark  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 08-18-2004 08:50 PM                       After Michael Moore's 911, I'm not sure Miramax and Disney will stay married. If it was up to Disney we would not have gotten to see W looking like a Possum caught in the garage. (Sorry, had to slip that in). Disney is going Cyan in Mexico and all of South America as well and the labs have ben gearing up for this. Guttag, where are you?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-18-2004 09:51 PM                        quote: Steve Kraus Ah...commerce. Ah...no Hydroquinone. Ah...no sodium hydroxide (lye/caustic soda). Ah...a single fixer, not two. Ah...much less fresh water used to process print film. Ah...less silver in landfills. Ah...no soundtrack degradation from application problems. Ah...no silver blotches or bleeding in the picture area. Ah...much less print waste. Ah...better print quality. With over 10 Billion feet of prints made worldwide annually, the environmental advantages are very real.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-19-2004 01:00 AM                     With all these alledged savings, why aren't the companies saving all the money sharing the cost of the conversion with the theatres??? As usual in this business it's the exhibitors who get screwed while somebody else stashes the cash. Without this consumption of silver, will the supply go up and price of silver go down?  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 08-19-2004 03:40 AM                        Yay! More spare exciter lamps to run films from the other 70% of the studios. Still batting .700, not too shabby! Just kidding. What happened to "Dolby Dolby Dolby" ?!  |  IP: Logged Peter Kerchinsky Master Film Handler Posts: 326 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-19-2004 04:45 AM                     Exciter lamps, what are those?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-19-2004 05:36 AM                        quote: Bill Enos As usual in this business it's the exhibitors who get screwed while somebody else stashes the cash. Without this consumption of silver, will the supply go up and price of silver go down? Without silver redevelopment, more silver will be recovered in the process fixer solution and recycled. But IMHO, it will have little effect on the market price of silver, since between film, electronics, jewelry, and other silver users, it is a huge market. As noted before, the film raw stock remains the same, with no decrease in manufacturing cost because of cyan dye tracks. So with cyan dye tracks eliminating waste (scrapped reels) from soundtrack application quality problems, the film manufacturers will sell LESS film. Modern reverse scan readers offer advantages beyond compatibility with cyan dye tracks, so there is benefit to theatres in upgrading.  |  IP: Logged Barbara Toriel Film Handler Posts: 7 From: Miami,Fl/United States, United States Registered: Aug 2004 posted 08-19-2004 10:39 AM                     quote: Peter Kerchinsky Exciter lamps, what are those? I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic, it's hard to tell written sarcasm but exciter bulbs are located near the analog sounddrum (at least on Christie's and Victoria 8s) in fact it is the light (?) for that reader. However I am not sure if they are still commonly used. I remember about a year ago AMC had all it's theatre's get little digital readers to replace the exciter bulbs.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 08-19-2004 10:47 AM                     Daryl, I know some laptops get pretty hot, but does your one really need that large extrattion duct attached to it?  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 08-19-2004 11:40 AM                        Absolutely! Those slim line notebooks (Dell X200) get quite hot without them.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 08-19-2004 12:51 PM                     I thought maybe you had the carbon arc backlight option for the display!  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-19-2004 12:55 PM                     No he has an Imax 15K water cooled xenon on it that is why it needs the large duct because the water lines run in it as well  |  IP: Logged

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