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Topic: Input needed about those Long Play Towers (Kintone)
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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 05-30-2007 06:45 AM
We are outfitting a booth that is so small it is really a closet. We used to have two Eastman 25Bs in there but they are long gone and there was no film at all. Now they want to refurbish and want both film (35mm) and video, so I am stuck with only one 35mm projector -- so it's gotta be compact -- I am leaning toward the Kinotone FP10. Thing is, I am not to crazy about the spindly legs as opposed to the more robust sturdiness of the FP20A. I assume these are identical mechanisms just attached to different supports. And since I will be using the Long Play Tower (SPT5000), there really is no need for the extra bulk of the feed and supply section of the console model, other than the additional support it gives. If they are identical machines (except for the pretty substantial cost savings on the FP10), do you think I should just ignore my concerns about the stability issue of the FP10 -- people knocking into it and such? Maybe just sit the feet in cement anchors or something.
And secondly, being that it is an integrated soundhead, the natural thing would be to just get their basement digital reader, but I was wondering if I should forego that and still get the Cat 702 to sit on top -- would the dolby give me any advantage?
Thanks in advance.
Oh, yah, and did someone say Dolby discontinued the DA20? And replaced it with what?
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Frank Angel
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posted 05-31-2007 06:35 AM
Funny, this thing all came about because some VP was hobknobing with a potential donor and I surmise in the course of cocktails and brie, it was mentioned that a donation was in the offing for some worthy project....this led to that and it wound up, how bout money be donated for running movies -- what a concept --that's always a good, hi-profile hook to hang a donation on. The VP then rushes to us and says, put together a package to run film in the Gershwin Theatre (our 475 seat house). Me thinks the VP is so removed from us that he doesn't know we have been running film in the Whitman Theatre for 30 years -- it's our big, 2500 seat, recently refurbished to the tune of 5 million dollars house. I think he proposed the smaller theatre off the top of his head because that was the name that popped into it.
Well, anyway, now just got a price for the FP20A. Hahhahaa...wait....let me gather myself. You see, all I have ever done was work with USED equipment. The FP20A tag was an eye-opener; I haven't seen new prices for a long time.
OK, so now I'll use my eraser and put down a Christie P35. But while I put together this package, I am working with my boss to gently inform the administration that, hello, we DO run film and perhaps it would be a tad wiser to just upgrade the the 2500 seat house which just got a new screen, not start from scratch with the run down, small theater. Perhaps they will see the wisdom of what I speak....and oh yes, be apraised that WE ALREADY DO FILM at the performing arts center.
So immediately, if they see the error of their ways and give me lots of money for the Whitman booth, I want to get top of the line ISCO lenses for my XLs, a supply of carbons to last till I either retire or die, whichever comes first (let the next guy put in xenon), a Panastereo processor with a DA20 before every last one of them is sold off the shelves of every supply house in the country (what an incredible nasty blow for every manufacturer who makes cinema processors not to have a digital adaptor to mate to it -- anyone buying a new system will have no choice but to buy a CP650, right?).
Anyway, that's my plight. Working with higher up officials who are, how shall we say....oops, better not; we are not alone.
Coffee's run out....see you guys later.
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Michael Schaffer
"Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?"
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posted 05-31-2007 05:40 PM
Well, the stuff also actually costs money in Europe, too, and the profit margins aren't any bigger either. But it just makes more sense to spend a little more money and then enjoy many, many years of high quality performane with potentially very few and little problems. They could probably also put together an FP25A, but apparently, we aren't talking about $2k more or less, it looks like all of that is totally out of reach for that budget. But yes, I can see how the current (or rather ongoing) low value of the $ really makes that too expensive at this time. Funny though how many people here want to buy those German cars - which aren't exactly cheap either - because they think it makes *them* look good, but when it comes to springing for a little more to make an image on the screen look really great, every single buck is too much...and then some are very ready to sink megatons of dough into the digital fantasy...but that is a completely different subject. Maybe a TK35 is really what Frank needs. It looked good enough for the comrades, so why not?
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