From: Freya (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 11:10:18 PST
I think cost and simplicity are the 2 big factors in
implimenting a decent sound system. If you really
could run it right off the optical sound head without
conversion and all you needed was software for a
laptop it could really work.
You could make a cd or dvd that had both the
soundtrack, the software and the operating system on
it so the venue wouldn't have to install software,
like those liinux things that run off a cd.
Then it would just be a matter of connecting the
laptop to the projector and amplifier.
There is still the cost of making optical prints sadly
tho.
...and basically I think DTS would have to give it
away, or maybe charge $20 for it at most. :( That or
they would have to at least do something to seed the
market.
I do think it would be great to have a simple sync
system tho.
How about a system where a computer plays a sync sound
whenever the film has been marked with a felt tip?
Could that be done? :)
love
Freya
--- Sam Wells <email suppressed> wrote:
> Ya know, I was thinking that you could do a kind of
> mini-DTS system for
> 16mm. Build it as software in a laptop say, run
> DVD-ROM or right off a
> HD...
>
> little firewire & USB box.... the USB easily fast
> enough for the
> timecode in, outputs for going into a dolby CP
> non-sync input and/or PA
>
> (The older generation DTS processor I have is
> essentially a Pentium PC
> with a CD-ROM drive - running on MSDOS; for all I
> know they're still
> using DOS, it's fast, stable)
>
> You could eliminate the a few DTS tricks like the
> 'revert' signal that
> it feeds a dolby Cinema Processor. Or keep it.
>
> Retain the freewheeling when encountering dropouts
> (and in fact set
> the parameters on your laptop screen) feature as
> well as auto crossfade
> over errors. (One of DTS' best ideas).
>
> Maybe do it so you could burn your own DVD-R. They
> could sell the
> software.
>
> I don't know if they'd be willing to license
> something like this; I
> mean they license for home audio of course. I think
> their first concern
> would be efficiency and quality in presentation with
> something that has
> their name on it. I don't think that 16mm is any
> kind of market for
> them, although Special Venue certainly is.
>
> You could "roll your own" too, but one should bear
> in mind their system
> eliminates the major problems of simply trying to
> jam sync & chase.
> IOW they did the homework already.
>
> -Sam
>
>
>
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