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Topic: Release Print Sound Track Printing
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 08-20-2008 05:10 PM
That was exactly what occurred to me, too: the edges of the letters in laser-burnt subtitles look a lot rougher than a printed DTS timecode. Presumably the DTS data blocks are large enough for the reader to be able to cope with laser-etched ones. If so, that shows just how resilient DTS is: if the readers can cope with that, I'm sure they can cope with a level of dirt and scratching on a typical release print that would cause Dolby to fail.
MWA are some seriously smart cookies. I had the privilege of visiting their factory in Charlottenburg (a suburb of Berlin) for the training session on a small gauge telecine which the archive I used to work for bought a couple of years ago. Amazingly, they build their line of mag followers, LCD/CCD based telecines and laser film recorders from the ground up in a tiny factory sandwiched between two blocks of flats in a residential side-street off the main road from Berlin city centre to Tegel Airport. Everything form machine tooling the chassis and mechanical film path components to assembling the circuit boards happens there. I've never used their film recording products, but their Flashscan and FlashTransfer telecines are very innovative technologies, delivering true broadcast quality for about 15% of the cost of a Cintel or a Spirit. If they have found a way of directly burning a digital audio track or DTS timecode onto a projection print, this strikes me as precisely the sort of niche market they would try to develop and make cost effective, which the bigger players would give up as being not worth the bother.
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