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Author Topic: DTS Reader Position Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-18-2007 05:51 PM                  Sorta a weird question... Does the DTS reader work equally well on the left side of the film path as well as the "normal" right side?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-18-2007 06:17 PM                     Yes it does. I've set them up like that in many installations. It helps to shorten the delay time when you are stacking it with other readers because DTS isn't happy if the offset is higher than 70 (although I've had to do it on some occasions).  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-19-2007 02:59 AM                  Thanks for the reply your holiness. It is sincerely appreciated.  |  IP: Logged Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 06-19-2007 05:57 PM                     Does the posted picture depict two Dolby digital sound readers. If so...what is the benefit?  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-19-2007 06:00 PM                     Top one is a Dolby unit the bottom one is a Sony SDDS unit. (I bet that if a short person's planning on lacing all of that, there had better be a stepstool for him to reach that upper guidance roller..lol) - Monte  |  IP: Logged Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 06-19-2007 06:09 PM                      |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 06-20-2007 07:22 AM                     For a PPT (Projected Picture Trust) display at an exhibition in London some years ago Dion Hanson took an old '20s Gaumont projector with both a Vitaphone style turntable and an optical soundhead, and to this he added a RCA mag penthouse, CDS, Sony SDDS, Dolby Digital and DTS readers, and then bolted the spoolbox back on top. I think from memory the thing was getting on for eight feet high. I seem to remember that he also had to bold on some additional metalwork, hidden round the back, to support it all.  |  IP: Logged

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