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Leaky Pipeline: The fight that revolutionized cinema sound

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Sound of a Projector

The audio files were stored separately on what was basically a high-capacity CD. The problem with this method was the time it took to read those timecodes and trigger the proper audio files. This would sometimes cause a delay between the picture and the sound. How to stay in sync with no silence and no limitation of missing sound? Eventually they found a way by using something called a buffer memory.

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