35mm HOME CINEMA: Full lace up and projection

Noel Pratt prepared this Kinoton FP20 with full Dolby Digital sound facilities for us and I've been spending the past few days learning how to use it. The Dolby CP500 Dolby Digital decoder is going to have to wait for another time but I'm getting to grips with everything else. In this video I lace up a short trailer reel and talk you through the process. Optical sound has always been a bit of an issue on our portable 35mm projector and this one was no different but good progress has been made and the sound is being put through the phono inputs of a 30+ year old Marantz PM30 stereo amplifier with great results. Still some work to do to find the exact lens required to maximize the 1.85:1 image ratio but 'Scope 2.40:1 films fill the full width of the screen successfully.