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- From: quale@spock.cs.wisc.edu (Doug Quale)
- Subject: Re: Digital Dolby (was Re: TOYS)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.072327.24351@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News)
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin -- Madison
- References: <1992Dec19.220841.28070@microsoft.com> <MERLYN.92Dec25103335@agora.rain.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:23:27 GMT
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- In article <MERLYN.92Dec25103335@agora.rain.com> you write:
- >(yuck), ALADDIN (thumbs and swords up), and then TOYS. And today I
- >will see THX *70mm* Digital Dolby for HOFFA (another first in
- >Portland). Way cool.
- >
-
- Sorry, Dolby Digital is strictly a 35mm format. If you see it in 70mm,
- it will be in the Dolby A type noise reduction magnetic 6-track analog
- recording, which has greater headroom (louder louds without clipping)
- than Dolby Digital. Dolby Laboratories has no immediate plans to release
- a 70mm digital format. The 35mm Dolby SR *D format (Dolby Digital) was
- created to give 35mm prints the same discrete 6-track sound quality as
- expensive 70mm prints. Both formats are excellent and in properly tuned
- rooms both are an experience worth listening to.
-
- >Just another video producer, looking for the best in theatre sight and sound,
-
- Just the brother of a Tom Hollman trained film sound geek --
- (Tom Hollman is the T & H in THX.)
- --
- Doug Quale
- quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu
-