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Author Topic: Why did I receive two sets of KDMs? Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-06-2014 12:24 PM                        So we're playing Mr. Peabody this weekend. On Tuesday I got 18 KDMs....(we've been down that stupid road before). Anyway I narrowed it down to the 2 we need, ingested them last night and this morning I got ANOTHER set of 18 KDMs. WTF? Why do they do this? It's not the first time it's happened and I can't see any problems with the original ones.  |  IP: Logged John Roddy Expert Film Handler Posts: 114 From: Spring, TX, United States Registered: Dec 2012 posted 03-06-2014 02:32 PM                        Looks to be everything from Fox that got sent again, not just Peabody. I see new Son of God keys in my email as well. This seems to happen a lot with a handful of Deluxe-distributed studios, but I don't know why. I occasionally see it with Technicolor too though. Very strange. Doesn't it cost a semi-significant chunk of change to generate and distribute keys?  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 03-06-2014 02:50 PM                        I got a second set for Peabody as well, but not Son of God. I wonder if Deluxe received too many phone calls from theatres saying they didn't receive the keys, so they just retransmitted to everyone. On the flip side, I nearly missed the keys for 300 since they sent all 6 versions in one email with a single zip file.  |  IP: Logged John Roddy Expert Film Handler Posts: 114 From: Spring, TX, United States Registered: Dec 2012 posted 03-06-2014 02:59 PM                        The Son of God keys I received are for the Spanish version, and they're only good for one week at a time. I guess the more accurate claim would be that any Fox key generated for a run beginning on Friday was sent out again today.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-06-2014 03:11 PM                        quote: Justin Hamaker I nearly missed the keys for 300 since they sent all 6 versions in one email with a single zip file That's happpened here too. I sure wish they would pick one system and stick to it. Of course then a lot of "help line" people might lose their jobs, so....  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 03-06-2014 03:12 PM                     It must be the phase of the moon or something. I got 4 identical sets of keys on 2 different days for my press screenings of "Jorodowski's Dune" and "Grand Budapest Hotel" this week.  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 03-06-2014 06:32 PM                     Yeah I just got keys that had attached files I was urged to rename from .zzz to .zip and then un zip them before ingestion? Why? I have 500 other things to do!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-06-2014 07:55 PM                        Another half-baked "security measure" maybe?  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 03-06-2014 08:49 PM                        Some of the webmail services (gmail?) don't allow .zip file attachments as a half-baked measure to avoid passing along Microsoft Windows viruses.  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 03-06-2014 09:12 PM                     Thanks Frank,that makes sense.  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-07-2014 10:07 AM                        I got the same set of duplicate keys for Mr. Peabody & Sherman. When in doubt, just download your keys from foxkeys.com. The paperwork enclosed with the drives includes the username and password to access your keys.  |  IP: Logged Andrew Thomas Master Film Handler Posts: 273 From: Pearland, TX, USA Registered: Jun 2012 posted 03-08-2014 02:38 PM                     Yeah, my wife saw my cell phone explode with Peabody and Son of God e-mail alerts. I got to explain to her the ridiculous "key for every possible variant" approach.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-10-2014 08:30 AM                        If they're going to send out all the keys anyway, why bother with a jillion different keys? Why not just have one key that unlocks every version?  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 03-10-2014 08:46 AM                     I think that's not possible with a single KDM. One KDM file per CPL. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 03-11-2014 11:37 AM                     Mike, a KDM unlocks a specific file to a specific projector, so the name of the file needs to include info like whether or not the file is in 2D or 3D, in 5.1 or 7.1 or 11.1 or 8,589,934,592.1 and such. If that information was missing from the title of the movie an otherwise "less aware" "projectionist-type" "person" would likely program the wrong file to the wrong projector.  |  IP: Logged

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