New HT in Sun City, Ca (2 Viewers)

[DFurr]

Tonight going back to 1978 with GREASE!! Beautiful print, 2:35:1, Dolby A stereo. This is David's fav movie of all time.

 

[DFurr]

Tonight going back to 1978 with GREASE!! Beautiful print, 2:35:1, Dolby A stereo. This is David's fav movie of all time.


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Never get tired of watching Grease.
Screen shots....

 

[DFurr]

Is anyone using a OPPO BD 103 still able to use their Iphone to control the unit? Mine stopped working several years ago.

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

You need to file out that scope plate a little bit

Haven't tried the Oppo remote app for a while - will try tonight and get back to you.

 

[DFurr]

You need to file out that scope plate a little bit

Yep I thought so too but I found the scope lens had twisted just a bit. Looks perfect now!!

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

That's certainly an easier solution than filing the plate (I *hated* doing that).

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

double post

 

[DFurr]

I'd rather eat a brick than file plates especially Kinoton plates. They are thick and take for ever to file. I broke two files when I set up for the current screening room.

 

[DFurr]

Found a plaque I've been looking for. Another decoration for the screening room. Screening The Perfect Storm over the weekend the EX (6.1) makes a huge difference. I just wish more titles had the EX tract before film went to digital.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

Found a plaque I've been looking for. Another decoration for the screening room. Screening The Perfect Storm over the weekend the EX (6.1) makes a huge difference. I just wish more titles had the EX tract before film went to digital.
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This brings back memories. The theatre I worked at during law school had 4 screens equipped with Surround EX.

 

[DFurr]

I was curious so I went to IMBD to see all the movies that had to do with the Amityville Horror. There are 39 titles with Amityville in the main title. I've seen only the first 3 plus the remake. How many have you seen and which is your favorite?

 

[DFurr]

No more space left in my equipment rack. It takes a lot of "stuff" to be able to run all the digital/analog tracks.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

It’s too bad there’s no combo processor for both Dolby Digital and EX.

 

[DFurr]

It’s too bad there’s no combo processor for both Dolby Digital and EX.

There is an add on printed circuit board for the CP650 that allows that unit to pass EX, but for me the CP500 required a Dolby SA10 (second from the bottom in the rack) to make the EX work. A pain to wire up but works great. Instead of a single center rear speaker I installed two JBL 8330's, one on each side.

 

[DFurr]

After changing the bulb in my Epson 5010, I've noticed the cool down fan doesn't run as long as it did on the old bulb.
Anyone care to share the possibilities?

 

[DFurr]

Big day today. I'm upgrading my Dolby Digital processor from a CP500 to a CP650. I was not happy with the 500 processing the EX 6.1 surround so the 650 does a much better job with EX. This will be an all day and evening job with the equipment not coming in until after lunch. One wrong wire and the system won't work properly. I've got to get my mind in gear!!

 

[Stephen_J_H]

Big day today. I'm upgrading my Dolby Digital processor from a CP500 to a CP650. I was not happy with the 500 processing the EX 6.1 surround so the 650 does a much better job with EX. This will be an all day and evening job with the equipment not coming in until after lunch. One wrong wire and the system won't work properly. I've got to get my mind in gear!!

We had 650s in our EX screens when I was working PJ in Edmonton during law school. Nice upgrade. Fingers crossed that it works.

 

[DFurr]

We had 650s in our EX screens when I was working PJ in Edmonton during law school. Nice upgrade. Fingers crossed that it works.

IT sounds great and not even tuned yet, but I'm having an issue with matching the 5 programs in the automation with the 650. I've got new cables being made to make sure I didn't miss a wire somewhere. In the mean time we're still able to stream movies and project most anything on the big screen. Can't run mono, SR or Dolby A. I hope this week it will be fixed!! The EX will blow you away on SDDS much more so than the old CP500. That alone was worth the swap.

 

[DFurr]

Finally!!! That little chore took a week but it's all done now. My tech (former QSC audio specialist) spend three hours EQ'ing the room (surprisingly very close to the old Dolby 500 settings) replacing several db25 cables for the new configuration and finally running a 25 foot db9 cable between the automation and the coax input jack of the OPPO. That allows me to get rid of the phono jacks from the channel outputs of the OPPO and also allowed me to set the volumes for each program from the automation. It's all done now and I'm very happy with the finished product!

 

[DFurr]

Tonight a western to start the holiday weekend. All the way back to 1955 in glorious Technicolor and 35mm mono. The Americano with Glenn Ford and Frank Lovejoy (from House of Wax fame) Yeah I know it's on BD but you can't beat Technicolor on film. For a print that's 68 years old a few scratches, lines and a missing frame or two...doesn't matter. Nothings perfect after 68 years, including me!