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Topic: DTS disc reading question.
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John Hawkinson
Film God

Posts: 2273
From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 02-20-2009 10:25 PM
Ron, at least in the United States, the problem is not that there aren't enough discs to go around. It is that sloppy theatres lose the discs, and the exchanges don't have procedures in place to put new discs back in the old cans.
You would have to figure out a way for the exchanges to move the discs around independently of prints. Though they basically already have that -- it's called theatres calling up and saying that that their discs are broken/missing/whatever.
I doubt many people have gotten rid of XD10 units. They are fairly new, and by most accounts pretty reliable. The unreliability of the 6D and related units mostly stemmed from either drives or aging timecode readers, and because they tended to crash when faults happened, rather than producing diagnostic messages, they could be annoying to diagnose. The XD10 runs a more modern operating system and doesn't have that problem.
The XD10 can read from USB sticks, actually, though movies are not distributed that way. There have been limited 8 or 10 channel DTS releases, to go with the XD10 and the XD10P. I don't know what the story is on them, and why they have not been better-promoted. At least one person here on F-T has run one (I can't remember who! Search!).
--jhawk
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