Ken Rudolph
Dec 2006
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quote: Originally posted by spiketoo
Cinea is DOA.
Interesting thing about that. My original Cinea DVD player that was sent out never quite worked right. The remote was "sticky" (i.e. the buttons needed extra pressure to do anything) and it didn't play DVD-Rs consistently. Finally this season it just stopped playing any of the new screeners at all (it still played some old screeners, so it was a strange bug.) I contacted Cinea (which is a division of Panavision, I think, but has a separate 888 phone number) and within 4 days they shipped me out a free replacement which now works perfectly. Not that I need it particularly, as none of this year's screeners seem to be encoded with their system - and actually I don't watch any of these screeners to begin with since I'm lucky enough to be able to catch all the films on the big screen.
Whether or not their system is DOA, they still are supporting their free players; and I'm rooting for them to succeed despite the odds against them (I fear that most Academy members are technophobes and probably haven't even set up their machines.)
Yes, yes, I know, everybody here is probably dead set against any sort of proprietary encription of DVDs. And truly I loathe the concept of regional coding (true to the spirit of the MPAA, the Cinea players don't play any non-region 1 DVDs which is reason enough to despise them.)
By the way, my screener list is at:
http://kenru.net/movies/2006-7_academy_screeners.html
--Ken Rudolph
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