LC Concept was a 35 mm film projection sound format, developed in France and released in 1991. It used 5.25" 300 megabyte capacity re-writable magneto-optical disks to hold 4 or 5.1 channels of MUSICAM compressed audio. Two disks were used to hold approximately three hours of sound. The system was adopted in France, Belgium, and Switzerland. A large litigation against Universal Studios, Steven Spielberg and DTS frightened the investors. DTS had to buy the LC patents to resolve the issue.[1]
The system was developed by Pascal Chedeville and Élisabeth Lochen. A standard SMPTE timecode printed next to analogue soundtrack on the film print was read by a reader connected to the playback unit kept the playback in sync. The system was tested with a re-release of the Cyrano de Bergerac, and the first commercial release was Until the End of the World.[2] Overall, around 30 features were released in this format in France, among which:
↑ Le lexique subjectif d'Emir Kusturica: Portrait d'un réalisateur - Page 28 Matthieu Dhennin - 2006 "LC Concept - Format de son numérique associé à une pellicule 35 millimètres mis au point à la fin des années 1980 par deux ... Le procédé LC Concept a eu une existence commerciale très courte. En effet, trois ans après son apparition, ..."
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