In old Gaelic Etymology the god Albiorix ALBIO = WORLD RIX=REX King... The REGIONAL PROTECTIVE DEITY of the area now known as the French Riviera. Somewhat befitting for a client rumored have rented half of the rooms in the Hotel Du Cap for a b-day bash during Cannes. For those of you new to the forum, our company has been naming our signature rank engagements after moons of a planet whose iconic imagery conveys the spirit of Science Fiction, Saturn. Qualification for the Moon of Saturn badge is simple, it has to start with a clean technological slate,if it has been done before and it worked it has to improve upon it, if it has not been done before then it better be the best solution to the ever restraining field conditions of the project [room size, interiors designer's egos and ever pesky budgets], business-wise "rolling out Moons of Saturn" is not a profitable business to be in because the effort involved in development can never be charged for.
But that would be EUROPA so I am digressing.
This is going to be a quick 3 month Commando Pace build of a 4D system perched atop a 65 floor European Skyscraper. Il'l post pictures HERE
Meanwhile in the lab, remember that JP physically installed the new backpane for the Cinema Reference with the specially fitted Tascam Female 25 pin receptacle?
Well that was a physical connection but that does not electrocially permit it to do squat until you link up to the Trinnov processors, add and configure the inputs.
Using the one rj-45 whhich is dedicated to the Trinnov half of the Cinema Reference Curt called me and had me power up the unit , 90 seconds later he was logged into it.
Here's a summary from Curt:
Ok, good, we have the profiles working for the inputs on the Reference, with all inputs verified:
· ADA direct sources (internal)
· DB25 Digital in (AES/SPDIF)
· Analog Direct – XLR 7.1
System may be physically modified to take advantage of a total of 16 analog input channels available internally.
DB25 Digital Input:
To summarize the DB25, there are 3 formats, none compatable with the other on the cable: Tascam, Yamaha, Dolby.
The Reference/Trinnov uses the most common format, TASCAM AES, found on dubbing stages and pro audio.
Mike Babb (the highest in demand technician when it comes to DCI), landed with the replacement Light engine, and replacement blue formatter board. My projector problems at ALBIORIX are over. Hallelujah!!!!!!!
We are not entirely out of the woods, with 100 ft lamberts calibrated in rec709 2D we are dealing with ghosting issues. This is going to be a challenging one.
First when I spoke to the Stewart sales engineer to over-dramatize the point I said i really was more concerned how the image looked in 3D than 2D, I am probably the only maniac out there that specs that, due to the fact that we convert 2d to 3d "all the time" (well most of the time
). I had been insisting that maybe the screen skin should have been the silver 3D but the sales engineer said we would be fine.
So now we have a Master Image Polarizer system up and running but with Ghosting, we have the mother of all cargoes sitting at the airport over there awaiting customs clearance, that includes a second polarizer from Depth Q.
So we are going to shootout both polarizing systems, but there appears to be the potential for a screen issue as well. I am going to unroll the Severtson screen from Last Years realD Penthouse Lab in Miami and I am going to cut out a good 4 x 6 section of it, if the 5D screen in any way ghosts more than the severtson, I will request a 3d Silver screen replacement, because as you guys know me, when I say I don;t give a rats butt as to how the image looks in 2D compared to 3D I mean it. So a new skin will likely be in the works. Then there's the lamp. The projector HD20kj comes with a 3kw, quite frankly this is the most efficient projection design I have seen cause we tweaked the contrast quite a bit and still we are getting 100 ftlms. So there could be the possibility of a swap to a 2.4 or 2.0 kw lamp. As I said the fun is just beginning.
This is the manifest of fresh supplies waiting pickup:
Thanks for the agodlades but really this was a whopper of unsurmountable tasks one after another.
I am Back from this adventure, lots of pics to post. to summarize: Basically the operation went like the old three steps forward and two steps back, the last day before client inspection stuff that was working the day before stopped working, it literally came to kicking the damned thing and all of a sudden the warp core came on line and voila, the finest picture and sound came to be.
The client flew in and sat down for a demo , chase scene from Madagascar and beginning of Star Trek 3D, the client was smiling. when kirk and mccoy jump of the cliff I heard him say "wooow".
So when two of his lieutenants asked him, if it was better than Miami, he simply said IT IS CLEANER. And that ladies and gentlemen is how a little kick of the polarizer unit saved the day....
I promise to post pictures.
Needless to say there are many more larger moons coming our way.
One of our uzbequi assistants applied 240v power on the ADA without the switch being thrown is and thus the Trinnov took a crap.
We didi happen to have a suite 7.1 and balancing the quested gains by ear the sound PRIOR to TRINNOV turned out to be quite a little force to recon with. I'll cover the Trinovization stage of albiorix but it is amazing how good the quested system sounds with the 7.1.
Here are some pics...
Shipment was held in customs until I created this little document, then next day voila!
Peter, how much noise does that projector put out?
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