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Since we're talking DTS-stuff, I was helping to sort of inventory and decommission a film
& video screening room here in San Francisco, that will probably be permanently closing
their doors. I've already bought some of their stuff and made offers for some other items,
but here's something I found stuffed waaaay up on the top shelf of a booth-closet, behind
some boxes of spare parts and bottles of rancid intermittent oil:
It appears to be an unused "DTS Technician's Installation And Alignment Kit"
DTS_KitBox.jpg
WoW!
DTS_KitBox2.jpg
Inside are 4 Disks (encased in those old style "disk carriers" that make them look
like oversized versions of the those old 3¼in computer disks.) The disks are labeled:
DTS SETUP DISK - REV C
DTS 6 TRACK DEMONSTRATION D-1
DTS STEREO DEMONSTRATION 2
and the ever popular and elusive 6-track EMPIRICAL TEST DISK (with data sheet!)
There's also a 1,000ft roll of test film, still in the original shrink-wrap and lab tape,
along with a stern letter warning that "under no circumstances is this film to be
exhibited to a paying audience without prior written permission from Universal
Pictures."
Also in the box were several Odyssey-type adapter break-out boards, a couple of
short ribbon cables, and several pages of DTS installation instructions & diagrams.
A packing slip inside the box is dated 1993. The entire package seems to be unused.
At the time I found this, I'd already bought over $1200 worth of stuff that I really
have no use for and no place to put, so they threw the DTS box and some other
goodies in for free. (Like a complete, 'new in the box' "Zipper Changeover Repair
Kit"- with a couple of new coils, plunger arms, flexible dowser linkage, & more!) Wow!
--> So, has anybody seen one of these before, or perhaps one the 'old time installers'
here can tell more about it.
& video screening room here in San Francisco, that will probably be permanently closing
their doors. I've already bought some of their stuff and made offers for some other items,
but here's something I found stuffed waaaay up on the top shelf of a booth-closet, behind
some boxes of spare parts and bottles of rancid intermittent oil:
It appears to be an unused "DTS Technician's Installation And Alignment Kit"
DTS_KitBox.jpg
WoW!
DTS_KitBox2.jpg
Inside are 4 Disks (encased in those old style "disk carriers" that make them look
like oversized versions of the those old 3¼in computer disks.) The disks are labeled:
DTS SETUP DISK - REV C
DTS 6 TRACK DEMONSTRATION D-1
DTS STEREO DEMONSTRATION 2
and the ever popular and elusive 6-track EMPIRICAL TEST DISK (with data sheet!)
There's also a 1,000ft roll of test film, still in the original shrink-wrap and lab tape,
along with a stern letter warning that "under no circumstances is this film to be
exhibited to a paying audience without prior written permission from Universal
Pictures."
Also in the box were several Odyssey-type adapter break-out boards, a couple of
short ribbon cables, and several pages of DTS installation instructions & diagrams.
A packing slip inside the box is dated 1993. The entire package seems to be unused.
At the time I found this, I'd already bought over $1200 worth of stuff that I really
have no use for and no place to put, so they threw the DTS box and some other
goodies in for free. (Like a complete, 'new in the box' "Zipper Changeover Repair
Kit"- with a couple of new coils, plunger arms, flexible dowser linkage, & more!) Wow!
--> So, has anybody seen one of these before, or perhaps one the 'old time installers'
here can tell more about it.
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