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Ken Layton
unregistered

posted 05-30-1999 03:21 AM

How about these gems:

SOUND DROPPED out DURING SHOW

SOUND DROPPED to DEAD SILENCE

SONY DEFINATELY DOES SUCK

Anybody got more???

Mark Ogden
unregistered

posted 05-30-1999 03:22 AM

The favorite around here:

STILL DON'T DO SHIT !!!!

Brad Miller
unregistered

posted 05-30-1999 03:22 AM

The original is perhaps still the best:

Shitty Dynamic Digital Sound

...but I think I will start using some of the newer ones here, for a change.

People ask me why it is that I have every possible sound format in my
screening room except for SDDS. (mono, Dolby A, Dolby SR, 35mm mag,
70mm mag, DTS, SRD...and even CDS digital) Hmmm, do I really need to
answer that?

Scott Norwood
unregistered

posted 05-30-1999 03:23 AM

Heh...I think that Brad's screening room would benefit more from the
installation of a Vitaphone system than an SDDS processor. *grin*

Joe Redifer
unregistered

posted 05-30-1999 03:23 AM

Can you imagine if Warner Bros released "The Jazz Singer" in SDDS instead
of Vitaphone on October 6, 1927? The sound would keep dropping out,
clicking from the "high quality" main track to the low quality back up track,
etc etc etc... Imagine if that was everybody's first impression with movie
sound...We would still be showing silent films today!!

Brad Miller
unregistered

posted 05-30-1999 03:24 AM

Hmmm, good idea! Think I'll run out and set that up. I'll bet there would be
less pops and ticks in the phonograph record than the amount of times the
SDDS would drop in and out of the secondary fallback (lower quality) digital
track or to analog. haha

Joe Redifer
unregistered

posted 05-30-1999 03:24 AM

This is stretching it, but how about this:

SHOULD'VE got DOLBY DIGITAL, STUPID!

Scott Ribbens
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 118
From: Los Angeles
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 11-30-1999 09:43 PM

Thought that I would bring up an old topic too.

Some Dumb Digital System
Stacato Digital Dropout System
Someone's Decision Definitely Sucks
Stupid Defective Digital System
Sony's Definitely Done SOMETHING

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Chris Erwin
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 195
From: Olive Hill,KY
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 11-30-1999 10:41 PM

Here's a few more...

Suffer Does Da Sound
Simply Don't Do Soundtracks
Sony Did Do Sorry

--Chris

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 12-01-1999 03:18 PM

My GM loves SDDS. She tries to make us play all the prints that go into the big houses in SDDS. We just play them in DTS anyway.

I told her that 007-19 wasn't supposed to play in SDDS but she scheduled it into an SDDS house anyway. When the soundtrack started dropping out there were about 9,000,000 calls for bad sound. I just shut the processor off so even if they threaded the reader it wouldn't play in digital. SOMEBODY kept turning it back on.

She keeps putting Sleepy Hollow and Double Jeopardy in SDDS houses too. They aren't even SDDS prints! I think she does it becasue she knows they're DTS prints and doesn't want them to play in DTS. (Jazz Singerphobia, I think!)

She just frustrates me when she does that!

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Jim Ziegler
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 753
From: West Hollywood, CA
Registered: Jul 99

posted 12-01-1999 09:14 PM

My GM loves SDDS too... Luckly we don't have any...

Oh well, I emailed him this thread just for fun...

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 12-02-1999 03:55 AM

Ran a trade screening yesterday and the DTS discs weren't ready so I ran it in SDDS. The pre-screening went fine, no dropouts. I even ran a QC on the print and it was an "excellent" track throughout. During the actual screening for the studio people and bookers, the damn thing started it's random spazzing fit! Of all the times!!! I went to SR and hooked the laptop up to QC the track again. When I ran the QC again, it reported the same perfect track as there was before...but alas, it was srill dropping out! That's just great...SDDS made us look bad.

What a piece of junk!

So I power down and decide to leave it off for about 5 minutes...waiting for a quiet dialogue scene. One comes about 10 minutes later so I repower up and viola...no dropouts for the remainder of the film.

If I was to run that exact same print for a regular engagement, I'd be willing to bet it would run flawlessly for a good month, spazz out during a random show (as it always does), and run fine for another month.

What a piece of junk! I mean really...what a piece of JUNK!!! Somebody please take these damn things to the dumpster!!! DTS and SRD has never and I do mean NEVER given me problems...plus they're cheaper, they sound better and there are more prints with those tracks. It's no wonder Lucasfilm, Fox and the TAP representative demanded Phantom Menace NOT be run in SDDS for the trade screening. At least someone there knows what's going on.

Who's making these purchasing decisions???

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Jim Ziegler
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 753
From: West Hollywood, CA
Registered: Jul 99

posted 12-02-1999 10:23 AM

It is obvious to me that whoever does make these decisions have excatally no clue what they are buying. They look at the nice fancy little pamplets and then go with which one looks prettier..

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Ky Boyd
Hey I'm #23

Posts: 314
From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 12-02-1999 05:07 PM

Actually, there's a little more to it from that. I learned from someone in the industry that part of the attraction to SDDS for the chains is economic. Here's how it works:
For theatres equipped with SDDS, Sony allows a higher house allowance, which works out to better film rental terms. Don't know if Sony is still doing it this way, but as of about a year ago, that's what I was told. FWIW

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 12-03-1999 10:09 AM

I think the love affair is over as even SOny theatres are starting to pull out SDDS units
Brad Ithought you said you had all the formats I didn't see
perspecta sound (there is a card for it for a CP200
Quintaphonic
Sensurround
Colorteck
Vitaphone (sorry you have the modern one DTS

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