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Bastiaan Fleerkate
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From: Linschoten, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 03-12-2007 07:10 AM
I really like to have experience with every kind of digital sound in cinema’s as long as it is possible with the upcoming D-cinema…
I already have DTS and Dolby Digital installed in my cinema, but I want SDDS to. I know the sound is great, but the physical part (on the print) isn’t. What do SDDS players cost nowadays (second hand) and is it easily integrated with a audio system build around a Dolby CP65…
O, if somebody want to depart from his/her SDDS unit, please mail me… for a good price I may be able to convince my boss to buy one… (including penthouse reader, SDDS unit, etc…)
Bastiaan Fleerkate (Annex Cinema, Woerden, The Netherlands)
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
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posted 03-12-2007 07:37 AM
quote: I really like to have experience with every kind of digital sound in cinema’s as long as it is possible with the upcoming D-cinema…
From my very limited experience with digital cinema the sound doesn't seem to use any of these systems; it's uncompressed pcm in up to eight channels; only six normally in use. I don't know the sampling frequency, or size (number of bits). This is carried from the server to the sound system as four AES pairs, all on a single cable with 25 pin 'd' connectors. We are also using a CP-65, with a Dolby DMA8 Plus to interface the AES streams to the six channel analogue inputs on the CP65.
I don't know how you would add SDDS to your system; I've only ever heard SDDS once, as I understand it, the unit is not an add-on adapter to an existing processor, like a DA-20 or DTS-6, but a complete processsor in its own right.
Just out of interest; what would be the going rate for a secondhand DA-10 or DA-20, and a pair of readers, preferably the original ones (Cat. 699 I think). It would be quite nice to set up a system using the original readers as when the system was introduced, in the home cinema where I put four-track mag in a couple of years ago. They still show one or two films a year in it.
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Bastiaan Fleerkate
Film Handler
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From: Linschoten, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 03-12-2007 07:58 AM
My question was not about d-cinema... I know d-cinema has 8 channels that will be used and 16 channels waiting to be used in the future. My bad, I'm Dutch... I must read the things I write before I post them.
As long as I can work with 35mm prints I want to have worked with SDDS, Dolby, DTS, etc... because it is going to be replaced soon by d-cinema... (yes uncompressed PCM sound). I really am a sucker for good digital sound in cinema's.
For a second hand DA-20 you really have to look hard. No cinema would depart from it easily. A second hand DA-20 isn't cheap... +/- 5000 Euro's (6,583.14 USD, 3407.5 GBP) for the lot (penthouse reader, unit, etc. ) isn't an exception (in the Netherlands).
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