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Author Topic: Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, DTS t/c in R4 Alexander Smith Expert Film Handler Posts: 128 From: Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Registered: Jun 2003 posted 11-28-2005 11:30 AM                     Have any other FT'ers noticed, in particular but not limited to UK FT'ers, if your print of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire has corrupt DTS t/c on R4? While R4 plays, the DTS t/c reader's LED flashes randomly on and off, while the XD10's subtitle and narr. LEDs also blink randomly. The narration audio is garbled, as it is little chunks of mixed-up audio. I think the XD10 is doing exactly what it is being told to do. I swapped the t/c reader with another (we only have two), and there was the same problem. I've also swapped print, as we have two of those, and we get the same problem in R4. Both t/c readers are the same age (~9 months), and I think it unlikely that they will give the same fault, at the same time during 2 different prints of the same film. Naturally, we've ordered a replacement R4, but I have this idea that the replacement reel may have the same problem, if it has been made from the same master copy. Does that sound plausible? I'm open to suggestions if there's anything else I might do, to make the DTS work properly during R4. We only use DTS for accessibility requirements, that's why we've not noticed this problem before now. Alex.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-28-2005 12:32 PM                        No problems here.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 11-28-2005 12:59 PM                        IIRC, we had problems in some locations too during the second half of the movie, could be reel 4. I checked readers and readjusted the LED level and the problem went away. The reason that it was only during certain reels is probably that the reader LEDs were a little low, but not dramatically so, so with good timecode there was no problem. Apparently the TC was printed less than good on some reels, and then several small problems add up...  |  IP: Logged Dan Harris Film Handler Posts: 86 From: Bristol, UK Registered: Jun 2003 posted 11-28-2005 02:52 PM                     Alex, this is apparently a widespread problem with the Harry Potter prints. I believe our technical manager is discussing it with Warner and today requested that everyone with problems let him know, so I assume it's quite widespread. 5.1/Audio Description/Subtitling drops out completely for the second half of R4 on all four of my prints, and is garbled and disjointed during the first half. So I'm playing in SRD. Typically next week one print drops to a DTS/SR only screen!  |  IP: Logged Thomas Jonsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Bromolla, Sweden Registered: Sep 2003 posted 11-28-2005 03:59 PM                       My print wouldn´t play SDDS. Tried SRD and it played everything except reel 7. On 6 or 7 places it had 6 inches long blue lines right in the middle of the SRD track, parrallel with a 2 inches long series of small blue squares in the middle of the analog track. I have never seen anything like this before. Plays perfect in DTS. Thomas  |  IP: Logged Andy Muirhead Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Galashiels, Scotland Registered: Dec 2000 posted 11-28-2005 06:15 PM                     Reel 6 for us, DTS timecode was dropping in and out. Replacement reel from Warners is ok.  |  IP: Logged Nick Scott Expert Film Handler Posts: 133 From: nsw austrailia Registered: Nov 2004 posted 11-29-2005 03:09 AM                        All 3 of my prints play fine in D.T.S. and S.R.D. No timecode blinking at all and error rates of 1-3 in S.R.D.  |  IP: Logged Frank Dubrois Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 896 From: Cleveland, OH Registered: Mar 2005 posted 11-29-2005 04:19 AM                    Same here, two DTS prints, no issues  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 11-29-2005 05:03 AM                     My one print had dropouts in the SR-D in reels 4 and 5. We have no DTS in this one house. It let me know that I needed to "change the oil" in my CP-500 (give it a CAT-69 dolby tone tuneup...lol) when the dropout occured. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Adam Fraser Master Film Handler Posts: 499 From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 11-29-2005 12:16 PM                        We had about 4-5 dropouts near the middle of the film. Tracks at 3-4 most of the movie and the reversions are not long enough for SR to kick in.  |  IP: Logged

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