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Author Topic: Digital cinema & closed captioning Fred Tucker Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Sugar Land, TX Registered: Sep 2007 posted 03-22-2008 01:13 AM                     With the rapid growth of digital cinema on the rise, is there a techology out that allows for MoPix type closed cationing or discriptive audio? All of the DLP's that I have worked with were hooked up to Dolby 650 processors and nothing else.  |  IP: Logged David Zylstra Master Film Handler Posts: 432 From: Novi, MI, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 03-22-2008 01:47 AM                     As far as I know closed captions are still being worked on. Open captions however are supposed to be possible out of the box without extra hardware. A theatre here in Mi recently ran a descriptive audio feature, but I'm not sure if they used the digital projector or a 35mm print.  |  IP: Logged Mike Renlund Film Handler Posts: 71 From: San Francisco Registered: Feb 2008 posted 03-22-2008 12:46 PM                     I had a long meeting with the folks from WGBH in Boston, that manage the Mopix system. It appears that DOREMI has a solution at this moment. But the other equipment manufacturers are waiting for a completed standard (SMPTE or otherwise), before they put people on it. I am actively after Dolby and WGBH to get some further work done on this. There are a couple of options in getting the system running on digital cinema. 1: A fully redesigned system that works on digital cinema. 2: Some kind of interface to get a timecode out of the digital cinema system that would drive the DTS CSS unit or XD10 with a CSS option. Not quite sure which method will come first. I will keep people posted here and at www.digitalcinematics.com  |  IP: Logged

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