Our local mom & pop movie theater opened back up after being closed for nearly 4 years recently. The new owners used a home quality optoma projector to show movies until they had the $$ saved up to buy a new
certified digital projector. They had some electrical issues, and finally last week they started using the new digital projector and certified audio system to show movies. Evidently they had to go through
a pretty rigourous certification process.
While the video and audio are certainly much better than they were before, I noticed a couple of issues right away. Occasionally, the ads that show before the movies will have a speaking character, and there is no audio for what
they are saying. Later, we watched Batman Begins, and everything was fine - no issues.
However, later on we watched Trolls World Tour, and there were 3 instances where characters were talking/singing, and there was no audio at all for it. It reminds me of a time when we were only getting left audio on our stereo
at home, and the kids couldn't play a PC game that had a lot of audio instructions on the right channel. The missing audio issue only surfaces very rarely - probably a grand total of 45 seconds of time in the Trolls movie, for
example, and there were other sounds, so it wasn't completely silent.
I brought this to the attention of the theater owner, and he said that the missing audio in the pre-movie ads is an issue from the ad company. Then when I asked about the missing audio several times during the movie,
he said that it was done on purpose - part of the movie. My wife and I were very dubious, so when I went home I looked up the clip from the movie on youtube, and it had audio where the audio was missing at the
theater.
I'm guessing that some specific vocal track is set to output to a speaker that isn't hooked up properly, or to a speaker that doesn't exist. It doesn't seem to be a problem when they are showing older movies, but it seems to
crop up with newer ones.
I'm not sure how to proceed with this. On the one hand, I really appreciate the small business owner, who has been kind to us, and it is great to have the small mom & pop theater back open again.
(I never expected it to reopen after it closed) The theater owner liked my idea of an annual pass, and now they offer an annual pass to see as many movies as you want for $100.
On the other hand, I am a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to video/audio, and I want to be able to hear what is being said when characters talk up on the screen.
I don't want to cause problems for them, but I also want a complete movie viewing/listening experience. Since we went ahead and got the annual passes for the whole family, we will be watching a LOT
of movies there over the next year.
What would you do in such a situation? Thanks!
certified digital projector. They had some electrical issues, and finally last week they started using the new digital projector and certified audio system to show movies. Evidently they had to go through
a pretty rigourous certification process.
While the video and audio are certainly much better than they were before, I noticed a couple of issues right away. Occasionally, the ads that show before the movies will have a speaking character, and there is no audio for what
they are saying. Later, we watched Batman Begins, and everything was fine - no issues.
However, later on we watched Trolls World Tour, and there were 3 instances where characters were talking/singing, and there was no audio at all for it. It reminds me of a time when we were only getting left audio on our stereo
at home, and the kids couldn't play a PC game that had a lot of audio instructions on the right channel. The missing audio issue only surfaces very rarely - probably a grand total of 45 seconds of time in the Trolls movie, for
example, and there were other sounds, so it wasn't completely silent.
I brought this to the attention of the theater owner, and he said that the missing audio in the pre-movie ads is an issue from the ad company. Then when I asked about the missing audio several times during the movie,
he said that it was done on purpose - part of the movie. My wife and I were very dubious, so when I went home I looked up the clip from the movie on youtube, and it had audio where the audio was missing at the
theater.
I'm guessing that some specific vocal track is set to output to a speaker that isn't hooked up properly, or to a speaker that doesn't exist. It doesn't seem to be a problem when they are showing older movies, but it seems to
crop up with newer ones.
I'm not sure how to proceed with this. On the one hand, I really appreciate the small business owner, who has been kind to us, and it is great to have the small mom & pop theater back open again.
(I never expected it to reopen after it closed) The theater owner liked my idea of an annual pass, and now they offer an annual pass to see as many movies as you want for $100.
On the other hand, I am a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to video/audio, and I want to be able to hear what is being said when characters talk up on the screen.
I don't want to cause problems for them, but I also want a complete movie viewing/listening experience. Since we went ahead and got the annual passes for the whole family, we will be watching a LOT
of movies there over the next year.
What would you do in such a situation? Thanks!
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