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Author Topic: HALLO-Film-Tech-WEEN (and Andy's THX cinema is not THX) Andy Summers Master Film Handler Posts: 397 From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-29-2005 06:18 PM                 Over the next few nights there I’m running some spooky films, yes Happy Halloween all, boo…LOL Halloween Dolby 5.1 THX Ghostbusters six-track Dolby Stereo THX House on Hunted Hill Dolby Digital THX Beetlejuice six-track Dolby Stereo THX The Thing six-track Dolby Stereo THX The Mummy Dolby Digital THX Alien six-track Dolby Stereo THX The Hunting Dolby Digital THX The Fly six-track Dolby Stereo THX Cat People six-track Dolby Stereo THX Underworld Dolby Digital THX Blade Dolby Digital THX Ghost Ship Dolby Digital THX The Withes of Eastwick six-track Dolby Stereo THX Gremlins six-track Dolby Stereo THX Gremlins 2 six-tarck Dolby Stereo THX Casper dts THX Hunted Castle dts THX Hallow Man Dolby Digital THX All films are presented via the Lucasfilm THX sound system for that creepy hallowing deep low end shivering sound… Presently running Ghostbusters, wow is this a cool comedy spooky classic from the 1984… All right this chick is toast! -Grab your stick -Holding! -Heat them up! -Smoking! -Make them hard! -Ready! -Let’s show this prehistoric bitch how we do things down town. -Throw it!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-29-2005 06:45 PM                     Goddammit Andy.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-29-2005 06:51 PM                        But it's a REAL THX system, licensed and all! It even has SPL WOW JBL in it!  |  IP: Logged Andy Summers Master Film Handler Posts: 397 From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-29-2005 07:10 PM                 More than you can possible imagine…..this magician has a few techniques up his sleeve, hehehehe…. So what you’re doing this Halloween then?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-29-2005 07:26 PM                  Ya know Andy, **IF** you would show all those films "...Over the next few nights...", it would take you 'til Christmas...THX or not. On this Monday, the 31st, to a select few of my closest friends, I'm showing a 35mm print of "Halloween" with a 2nd feature of "Friday the 13th III" in 3D. I usually show "Rocky Horror Picture Show" for Halloween, but for some reason my print seems to be missing... OBTW: I do not have a THX certified system... mine is PHX certified...which supersedes and is much better than that lame Tom Holman crap.  |  IP: Logged Andy Summers Master Film Handler Posts: 397 From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-29-2005 07:41 PM                 That’s great Phil’ is the print a personal copy? Or is it rented? THX or not, Hm, it is Lucasfilm THX take a closer look at the AVR in the picture section. Christmas hay, well so far I’ve got though 4 tonight, with Halloween Beetlejuice Ghostbusters and halfway into Cat People yes the 1982 remake from universal pictures. Wow “Cat People” in six-track Dolby Stereo THX is made even scarier with the Lucasfilm THX only 15 more to go…that’s around 34 hours in total viewing for argument sake.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-29-2005 07:47 PM                        Jesus Christ Andy, you don't believe that THX is a sound format, do you?  |  IP: Logged Andy Summers Master Film Handler Posts: 397 From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-29-2005 07:53 PM                 No it’s a guarantee and special electronic techniques that present the films soundtrack with a wider dynamic range bla, bla, bla is if I all ready didn’t know that. You’re a professional you’ve worked for Mann theatres, happen to have worked at the Chinese?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-29-2005 08:08 PM                  quote: Andy Summers ...that’s around 34 hours in total viewing... So Andy', Don't you have a life? Or even a GF or BF? I cannot imagine someone spending ALL their time watching films. Even Joe has other interests.  |  IP: Logged Andy Summers Master Film Handler Posts: 397 From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-29-2005 08:16 PM                 Phil’ Look at my profile it says right there…. As for Joe’s it says taking over the world, yours and mine is interesting though I have to say I do like film and eating well not so much this week, haven’t cooked in little over a week now, just having sandwiches instead. P.S i like THX LOL Now this opening in “Ghost Ship” is bit over the top, no, no arr now I can’t look at that, hang on now I can, I like “Gabriel Byrne” fine actor and I like the sound of his voice recorded in Dolby sounds cool. And THX JBL… only 14 films to go now, spooky evening so far, I like the line in the film “Would you turn of that fucking music?” LOL That was some jolt?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-29-2005 09:46 PM                        Wider dynamic range my ass! Andy you are unemployed. How do you afford all the JBL SLP THX WOW LOL SPL OMG SPL speakers and all the wonder movies you buy with fantastic THX dialog like Casablanca?  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 10-29-2005 11:04 PM                        Had you considered putting as much effort into seeking employment as you do making posts here?  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 10-30-2005 12:05 AM                     I don't care what anyone else does... I'll be in Salem on Halloween this year!  |  IP: Logged Cory Isemann Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: White Plains, MD, USA Registered: Jun 2004 posted 10-30-2005 01:10 AM                        Somehow I knew they would all be THX... somehow. quote: Phil Hill Even Joe has other interests. Heh, that's saying something! (Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to bash Andy here, or anybody for that matter. Just trying to illicit a chuckle from anyone that reads this)  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-30-2005 01:27 AM                     Ok Andy, enough lying now. Just face it, you do not have a THX cinema...even if you go by "home THX" standards, which for the record are not as strict as real cinema THX sound systems. Please check this link direct from the THX website. http://www.thx.com/mod/services/CHTTechnicalOverview.pdf I thought the joke picture page of Joe's THX Cinema would've been enough to get the point across, but clearly I guessed wrong. Time to face the facts. Even just skimming the requirements, it is quickly obvious that your home cinema fails on every aspect of the picture and it also fails under every aspect of measurement in the pdf file linked to above. Whether you can actually meet the sound requirements is unknown, but again without "design review and approval by the THX Design office", you are still NOT a THX cinema. Just having a receiver that says "THX" on it in no way means you are actually listening to these soundtracks under actual THX specifications. So as of right now, you are hereby forbidden to continue using the term "THX" in your posts as it translates to you watching videos at home. The THX program deserves a little more respect.  |  IP: Logged

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