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Author Topic: Oscars Tonight In Dolby Surround® Terry Monohan Master Film Handler Posts: 379 From: San Francisco CA USA Registered: May 2014 posted 02-22-2015 11:27 AM                     Lets see how ABC does with the sound at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood tonight. The Dolby people have spent the money to put in the best surround sound in any theatre around. Hope It sounds good on our home Dolby surround units. Must be nice to hear It in person tonight in the Dolby Theatre Hollywood CA USA. Turn up the volume and lets hear all the live TV split surrounds!!!!!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-22-2015 12:13 PM                        Maybe we'll get the crystal clear sound of the rain beating down on Hollywood Boulevard outside! Ironically, given the drought, we're forecast for some. There were a few spots driving home last night and it's dark and cloudy (at home, 64 miles east from the Dolby Theatre) right now. They've built a massive canopy type thing straddling the entire street from the Chinese across to the MouseHouse, so they're obviously taking the boy scout approach and being prepared.  |  IP: Logged Terry Lynn-Stevens Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1081 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Dec 2012 posted 02-22-2015 12:32 PM                     quote: Terry Monohan Hope It sounds good on our home Dolby surround units. I'm sure the young hipsters will be listening to the Oscars on their Dolby Atmos enabled headphones while they Hear The Whole Picture on their 7 inch tablets  |  IP: Logged Martin Brooks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 900 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 02-22-2015 02:48 PM                        I hope it's a better mix than what CBS did on the Stevie Wonder special. That Stevie Wonder special audio, even though it triggered the 5.1 Dolby Digital on the receiver, had no center channel and no surround audio, at least not as broadcast by WCBS-TV.  |  IP: Logged Terry Monohan Master Film Handler Posts: 379 From: San Francisco CA USA Registered: May 2014 posted 02-22-2015 05:54 PM                     Looks like old cheap ABC is broadcasting the Live On The Red Carpet in MONO SOUND! The commercials are in surround stereo sound at least as of 3 45 PM PCT. How sad I called KGO Ch 7 ABC in SF and they tell me ABC is sending them a mono signal for the live red carpet. I hope It will change for the main show at 5:30 PM or the pre taped red carpet that starts 1 hour before curtain time. I was the only sound type person to complain? In this day and age in front of the Dolby Theatre I can't believe they are doing MONO with no surround for the live red carpet thing. ABC saves money by not hiring the union sound guys in Hollywood to make stereo surround happen. Wait as of 4 PM Ca time THE RED CARPET IS NOW IN STEREO SURROUND SOUND. Many people may have complained and ABC got the correct stereo feed from Hollywood. All is not lost.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-22-2015 06:30 PM                     Overdressed actors answering inane questions about their clothes... in Dolby® stereo. Hold me back.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-22-2015 07:07 PM                        To be completely fair, nobody on the actual oscars telecast really talks about the clothes.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 02-22-2015 08:06 PM                        I'll be interested in hearing the orchestra mix tonight. Apparently this year the band will play from down the street at the Capitol Records Building - the set design this year took up the space that was previously used for the orchestra pit at the Dolby Theater. Supposedly it is one of the biggest bands yet used at an Oscar show - 65 of Hollywood's best session players for this show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZBjtg_adeM  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 02-22-2015 09:48 PM                     I wouldn't sit through the Oscars unless I was getting paid to do so, which has been the case for the past I-don't-know-how-many years. Thankfully, this year I'm working at another big event and having a better time than I'd be having if I were sitting through that over-hyped drivel. And IMO, surround sound- - Dolby or otherwise, would only make it worse.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 02-22-2015 11:58 PM                     Didn't watch this but checked a few seconds, seems that this is one thing that ABC DOESN'T put their stupid logo bug on. Wonder if that's because this is the only thing the industry people actually watch over the air live, and they don't care about the shows being ruined because they get their own copies of those?  |  IP: Logged Terry Monohan Master Film Handler Posts: 379 From: San Francisco CA USA Registered: May 2014 posted 02-23-2015 10:15 AM                     About the stereo sound on the red carpet seems like the local ABC station in LA KABC TV sends out a live carpet feed to any ABC station that wants to play It's a pre show red carpet from 1PM to 4PM before the regular ABC live feed. This is what I saw in SF and was in Mono sound. The set in the back part of the stage was one big video wall most of the time. Some looked a little crowded and junkie to me. Strange no one from the stage mentioned the heavy rain going on outside. The only sound problem I heard was a few people hitting the elevator mike pole. To bad someone didn't give Lady G some long sleeves to put over her tatts on her great Sound Of Music song. The clips they showed from the Fox Todd-AO 70mm film SOM looked very crisp and good color. Some of the bleacher crowd outside must have gotten soaked in the rare LA rain storm.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-23-2015 12:12 PM                        With reference to the foreign film Oscar (Ida), I wonder when was the last year in which a live action feature shot and intended for projection in 1.37 and b/w won one? I'm guessing early 1950s. As for the evening itself, agreed that Lady Gaga's tattoo was gross (and it must have taken Julie Andrews all the self-control she could muster not to say something catty about it), but I did like, immediately after the best documentary award, "And now, as an antidote to all that truth and realism in the nominated documentaries, here are some commercials!" And Tarantino and Nolan must have been spitting bullets when Larry Hornbeck got his shout-out...  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-23-2015 12:20 PM                     Actually, it was just three years ago with The Artist.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-23-2015 01:53 PM                        quote: Leo Enticknap agreed that Lady Gaga's tattoo was gross (and it must have taken Julie Andrews all the self-control she could muster not to say something catty about it) There had to be some other equally-talented singer that could have done that tribute. It was just another ratings grab. Lady Gaga has a great voice but she's just so kooky, she is a huge turn-off for me. Guess it's my age showing.  |  IP: Logged Richard P. May Expert Film Handler Posts: 243 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jan 2006 posted 02-23-2015 06:39 PM                     My home system, which works quite well, did not have any noticeable stereo at all. The mixing for the nominated songs was just bad! The vocals were low level, and pretty well drowned out by the orchestra. To me, the clips from THE SOUND OF MUSIC were rather inferior picture quality, especially compared with the live transmission of the rest of the show. Other than these comments, the rest of the program looked and sounded fine.  |  IP: Logged

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