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Topic: Issues, questions, comments, tips, and tricks for Cinedigm LMS (aka TCC)
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
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From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-20-2011 11:58 AM
Mark,
I'm not sure what in the NDA would preclude a discussion about the TCC operation from a user standpoint. I really don't recall an NDA regarding the TCC itself. It fact, it was made pretty clear...we, the certified techs WERE to provide all such support unless it was a genuine bug.
As for 5.1/7.1 This is the same thing as 2D/3D or any other feature that may be auditorium specific. The LMS (anybody's, from what I can tell) does not know the specific capabilities of the individual auditorium within a complex. The only way it can get this information, at the moment, is if you tell it via Title Mapping.
Now with 2D/3D a solution has been to keep the 3D titles only programed into 3D houses and since there is a 3D presentation obligation...it has not been a big problem. However, when one only has a very small percentage of a special format, 7.1, or XBRIGHT...etc and those are KDMed to specific auditoria then yes you HAVE to set up separate titles in your POS and map them separately.
We have theatres doing just that and the studios seem to have dealt with it just fine. In fact, it will let them know just how many of their shows are taking advantage of 7.1 or XBRIGHT or whatever comes down the pipe.
Note, the current version of the TCC will automatically switch between 7.1 and 5.1 on a clip-by-clip basis. The previous version did not and one had to create a cue to do it. This does not solve the problem of 7.1 content going into a 5.1 only capable theatre.
Now what would solve sound related format issues is if the player could down mix a more sophisticated sound format into a 5.1 output. While it could also be done at the sound processor level, this is more unreasonable since it would require a processor to know about a format that did not exist when the processor was purchased and then have suitable inputs to mix it down...etc. Whereas in the player, via meta data, a player could be told how to mixdown the content to 5.1. Or, it should be required that the 5.1 version ALWAYS accompany the movie (kinda like how BluRay always has the AC3 version available)...and via the player's software, allow it to use 7.1 (or any other new format) or force the 5.1 mix.
Having to have multiple versions of the same title should be a thing of the past in this day and age.
-Steve
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