Sony SDDS Print Master manual Sdds The industrys best sounding format, Hear the Difference

6 SDDS - T he industry©s best sounding format

6 SDDS - The industry's best sounding format

Sony Dynamic Digital Soundâ (SDDSâ) is the motion picture industry's most advanced digital sound format, designed exclusively for cinema presentation. In developing SDDS, Sony applied decades of innovative experience in professional and home audio to deliver the highest quality sound presentation. SDDS has been engineered

to give filmmakers increased creative freedom and ultimately to preserve the integrity of the master soundtrack. With SDDS, today’s moviegoers can now experience a film's sound exactly as heard by the director and sound engineers on the mixing stage.

6.1Hear the Difference

Digital sound has changed the way people see movies. The clarity and vibrance of SDDS truly heightens the movie going experience. While other digital formats are limited to the same

5.1channels as home systems, SDDS provides movie audiences with up to eight channels of crystal clear discrete

audio. The additional two channels increases sonic detail and headroom adding impact to the presentation.

6.2System Basics

SDDS is a sound-on-film format comprised of the SDDS soundtrack, optically printed on both edges of 35mm film and the SDDS playback hardware – a reader and processor. As the film is projected, the SDDS soundtrack is scanned, its data is processed, and ultimately converted into analogue audio signals for the cinema's loudspeakers and amplifiers.

6.3SDDS Products

Sony manufactures a range of products that fit the exhibitor's needs. For new cinemas, there is the DFP-D3000 system that includes analogue and control functions and can serve as the central processor in any cinema, also available as an analogue only processor.

For retrofit applications there is the add-on DFP D2500 that simply adds SDDS to any existing system.

Both systems use the DFP-R3000 Reader to scan the soundtrack.

The reader mounts to the top of any 35MM projector.

6.4Big Sound for the Big Screen

The days of narrow ‘shoe box’ small screens are over. Today, the emphasis is on making cinema going an event. There is a trend towards building, larger, wider screens to maximise the experience. SDDS enables filmmakers and theatre owners to fill big auditoriums with six or eight channels of discrete digital sound through five screen loudspeakers, two surround channels and a full-frequency sub-woofer channel. The glory

days of 70mm big sound have returned with SDDS. None of the latest home theatre environments can compete.

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