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Cyan Tracks are near than onethinks 17 Jul 2003 15:45 #21554

Gordon McLeod OFFLINE Gold Boarder Posts: 266 Karma: 0	posted on Film Tech "Looks like it's finally happening for real... According to a fax I just received, the September 19 release of "Anything Else" will be the first to carry a cyan dye analog soundtrack." I guess the bottom line is if it doesn't effect the rental income of the major market players it will now finally get implimented
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Re: Cyan Tracks are near than onethinks 17 Jul 2003 16:20 #21555

Large OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 1074 Thank you received: 1 Karma: 0	Yea, I got the fax. I guess it is no great loss if you can't hear the soundtrack on a Jason Biggs' film. 4 out of 5 of my rooms are so equiped. I left on conventional to show variable density tracks.
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Re: Cyan Tracks are near than onethinks 17 Jul 2003 17:52 #21556

outaframe OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 672 Karma: 0	Yep... Gonna be interesting to hear what this thing really sounds like... Some have praised it, and others have said yuck... Real world conditions are the proof of the pudding...
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Re: Cyan Tracks are near than onethinks 17 Jul 2003 17:52 #21557

Gordon McLeod OFFLINE Gold Boarder Posts: 266 Karma: 0	All but the few cinecolor vd tracks will play just fine on a red LED All the rest of the B&W VD tracks are fine rememebr that cinecolor and Techincolor had cyan tracks back in the 40's that required red dot excitors and Selinium PE cells
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Re: Cyan Tracks are near than onethinks 18 Jul 2003 08:03 #21558

John Pytlak
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Lots of discussion generated on the Film Handlers Forum of Film-Tech:
http://www.film-tech.com

Here's the first-hand information:
http://www.dyetracks.org

Cyan dye analog tracks will have a pure cyan (sky blue) color with NO dark gray silver stripe over them. They MUST be played with a red light reader, or you will have unacceptable signal-to-noise. Best option if a retrofit is available is a reverse scan red LED reader, since you then also get the advantages of reverse scan. Noise reduction (Dolby SR or equivalent) is also recommended, since the baseline S/N is a few dB lower.

T-minus two months and counting!

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Customer Technical Services
Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Telephone: +1 585-477-5325 Fax: +1 585-722-7243
E-Mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Website: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion

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