Sony SDDS Print Master manual Michael Bay, Director, Pearl Harbor

6 SDDS - T he industry's best sounding format

6.6T estimonials

“Eight channel SDDS is awesome! I t makes a huge difference on Pearl Harbor. I ’ve never heard a movie sound so real. By all means, seek out a theatre featuring SDDS 8 to experience Pearl Harbor the way we intended it.”

Michael Bay, Director, Pearl Harbor

“T he sense of being totally enveloped in high-detail sound was particularly noticeable on this (SDDS 8) soundtrack”

François Groult, chief sound mixer, “T he Messenger: T he story of Joan of Arc”

“While the increased ‘screen resolution’ does indeed help with the definition of busy scenes, five channels have as much place on quiet films such as ‘Erin Brockovich’. I always find that just having three screen speakers on intimate films forces me to play too many elements in the centre horn; otherwise, it’s distracting to have sounds banging around the exit signs near the left and right speakers. With SDDS, I can use the left-centre and right-centre speakers for a natural-feeling, narrow stereo image throughout the whole movie, going wider as necessary for exterior scenes.”

Larry Blake, supervising sound editor & rerecording mixer,

Erin Brockovich

“Movie theatres equipped to present films in eight full channels can build and maintain a greater marketing edge over home theatres.”

“Listening to the three-channel music became an annoying and distracting disappointment, even with a 12 foot (wide) screen. Obviously my earlier notion had been mistaken. T he SDDS eight-channel advantage will work in any theatre.”

John F Allen, Boxoffice 1997

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