In August, removing the Bose speakers...
...and Philips FP20 projectors from the old booth. Just one to go...
...with the other one waiting for the lorry.
The last items out - the projector mounts.
Both projectors in the new booth (bit of a tight squeeze!). Working out how to wire them in.
Some weeks later (after the electrical works) Jim laced the test reel, struck the 1.6kW Xenon lamp arc, ran the motors, lifted the dowser and..
... we got our very FIRST picture in our NEW auditorium! There's still a bit of projector aligning still to do!
And still some work on getting the rest of the Dolby SX surround system going.
An instrumentation microphone 'listening' to the test signals to get the sound system adjusted just right.
Not even the projectors escape having their sound pickups calibrated.
After getting the changeover circuits working, some struggling to get the lenses and projector alignments spot on.
After 'La Vie en Rose' we were not happy with the image brightness, so we've now got 2kW lamps, the maximum the Kineton lamphouses will take!
The beam alignment problems with Projector No 2 lamphouse have now been fixed. There is still a faint, centre-screen 'corona' visible during dark scenes which we're still investigating.
We are STILL working to provide a feed to the auditorium AFILS system so that hearing-impaired patrons will have a 'T' listening option as well.
We now have Dolby 5.1 surround sound available when/if we need to show DVD presentations.
We're still not entirely happy with the auditorium sound quality and will be attending to this, with the AFILS system, during our Season break.
JAP
1 May 2008