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| Topic: | butt kickers This thread has 10 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Tuesday January 14, 2003 at 11:14 |
Thon Founding Member |
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Are any of you guys using actuaters (chair shakers) in your theaters? I'm beginning to see more of them out there such as the Githammer "butt kicker" and was wondering if they are worth while. I think my clients deserve to have their butts kicked.
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| Post 2 made on Tuesday January 14, 2003 at 23:28 |
Dave Blaker Founding Member |
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we sell and install a buttkicker with almost every HT install we do. our clients love them.
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| Post 3 made on Wednesday January 15, 2003 at 21:40 |
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I thought they were called TRANSDUCERS, not actuators! Anyway, have used Clark Sysnthesis extensivley in the past. They are VERY cool and very effective!
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| Post 4 made on Wednesday January 15, 2003 at 22:59 |
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If you want to experience something that will forever change your view of butt-kickers, check out D-Box Technologies Odyssee Motion Simulator. Once you have sat in on one of these, ther is no substitute. The D-box has actuators which sit at the four corners of a platform or couch and travel up to 5/8 of an inch (7/8 for the HL model). It feels like a lot more. The staff encodes a DVD ONE FRAME AT A TIME! They have done over 100 movies. Next CES or CEDIA show check it out or see it at www.d-box.com
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| Post 5 made on Thursday January 16, 2003 at 00:33 |
Dave Blaker Founding Member |
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ya but dbox is $20,000!!!
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| OP | Post 6 made on Thursday January 16, 2003 at 23:58 |
Thon Founding Member |
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Quite right avdude, my good uh... dude. It is a transducer. I think I picked up the actuater part from d-box, but it is intriguing. I'm in the process of putting together a kick-ass showroom (pun intended) and I want to have all the "bells and whistles".
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| Post 7 made on Monday January 20, 2003 at 03:10 |
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The D-Box would make a "kick-ass" addition to your showroom, but personally, I couldn't see using it on a day-to-day basis. It's just a littlle TOO much for my butt!
I'd rather be "stirred...not shaken!".
YMMV.
... Greg
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| Post 8 made on Wednesday May 21, 2003 at 13:13 |
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I'm installing a Dbox in a theater. It's cool.. Has intensity settings, so it can be brought down if there's too much movement for the user.
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| Post 9 made on Tuesday May 27, 2003 at 21:08 |
Matt Founding Member |
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Wow...Dbox is my dream unit!
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| OP | Post 10 made on Tuesday May 27, 2003 at 23:31 |
Thon Founding Member |
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The thread returns. Now that some of you guys are using D-box can you tell me if it will work with all DVD's? I seem to recall that it require a special program to work with a particular DVD. Am I tripping again?
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| Post 11 made on Tuesday May 27, 2003 at 23:47 |
Impaqt RC Moderator |
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The Dbox will "Simulate Motion" with non Encoded movies. The 100 or so movies that have the encoding are pretty cool.
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