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Author Topic: question about dolby trailer Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-17-2003 07:57 AM                     Even though I have an analog system I thought it would be cool to have this trailer but was wondering if it had an analog soundtrack on it. DOLBY DIGITAL EGYPT 35MM SCOPE TRAILER If it doesn,t there is no use for me to get it. Thanks! P.S. If it is stated on the label as having analog then don't make too much fun about me.  |  IP: Logged Ron Lacheur Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 650 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-17-2003 08:41 AM                     It has an SR analog track. But why show it if your setup is analog? That's false advertising.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 06-17-2003 08:42 AM                     All of the digital trailers from Dolby, DTS and SDDS have a regular analog track on them. An idea would be NOT to put the digital track on, so if someone left them on and ran it, the sound would go out altogether. That way, people would know the theater was 'lying' about having digital equipment. But I'm sure the digital companies would get too many complaints about how they sent a 'broken' trailer, so ....  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-17-2003 09:00 AM                     Ron said: quote: It has an SR analog track. But why show it if your setup is analog? That's false advertising. It,s for my home cinema. I plan on upgrading someday in the future or if the right price comes along. My family and friends don't mind. They know I lie anyway  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 06-17-2003 01:25 PM                    quote: An idea would be NOT to put the digital track on, so ... I think you mean not put an analog track on, in which case, I completely agree 110%.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 06-17-2003 01:37 PM                        You can expect about every single piece of film that has Dolby Digital to have an analog SR track as well. The format is specified as a digital track with analog fallback. To indicate this, they called format 10 SR-D. The reason is that Cinema Digital Sound failed because of the lack of analog fallback, so Dolby made sure that their format would never suffer from the same problem.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-17-2003 03:04 PM                     If i remember right, Egypt and Temple dont say Digital under the dolby logo, so if hes playing in dolby sr, its not really false advertising.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 06-17-2003 03:10 PM                        Temple only says Dolby, but Egypt says Digital as well. Both are very nice trailers.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-17-2003 03:20 PM                     False advertising? What are you talking about? One local theater here in town used to advertise digital sound, and yet was not equipped with a digital system. When asked it was explained that the non-sync signal comes from a digital cd...thus "digital sound in the auditorium"! He took it too far when he started going to a local megaplex and buying dts and Dolby logo films from the teenage projection staff for $50 a pop to show at the front of his movies.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-17-2003 05:07 PM                        I don't care for the Egypt, Temple, and Canyon trailers. All are very boring and sound unimpressive. There is absolutely no animation whatsoever in any of the trailers except the camera movement. You start out behind a rock, then (very, very slowly) move up to the Dolby logo which for some odd reason is sitting on a pillar. Then, if you're lucky, a beam of light will shine on the logo or something. Very uninspired. All three of these trailers are pretty much the same, except in different settings, and Canyon's Dolby logo is embedded into a rock, Temple's logo is sitting on a pillar, and Egypt's logo is just sitting there on the floor.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-17-2003 05:18 PM                     Yes, and where is the Dolby City trailer? Why was this discontinued? Does anyone know?  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 06-17-2003 05:19 PM                     I never liked the CGI trailers at all, that video game stuff bores me on the screen. Do you remember the older Dolby Spectral Recording trailer "Surround Fanfare" (if that was the title) with Henry Mancini music? It had a nice helicopter shot and looked very impressive, except for the bad print quality. Even if it advertised a sound format, couldn`t Dolby have cared a little about picture quality?  |  IP: Logged Ron Lacheur Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 650 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-17-2003 05:52 PM                     Digital sound through non-sync? That's hilarious. He sounds like a few cans short of a six pack.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-17-2003 05:56 PM                        "Temple" is the SR trailer; there is no digital track, which is why it doesn't say "Dolby Stereo Digital" or "Dolby Digital" on it. Since it doesn't say "SR" either, presumably it can be used for Dolby A features, without constituting false advertising (I've done it).  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-17-2003 07:20 PM                     Anybody got a spare "TEMPLE" that they could let go of?  |  IP: Logged

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