LSC to Accept MIT Card

The MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC) is pleased to announce that it will accept the MIT card for ticket and refreshments sales beginning at the 25th Annual Science Fiction Marathon on January 25th. The 2003 Science Fiction Marathon features the movies Contact, Dr. Strangelove, Innerspace, and Alien, as well as numerous short subjects and science-fiction trailers.

LSC began to investigate the MIT Card, recently renamed TechCASH, several years ago to provide greater convenience to MIT students purchasing tickets to film and lecture events in 26-100. With recent upgrades to the card system and funding support by the Undergraduate Association, LSC was able to purchase and install the necessary hardware. LSC joins a number of other campus vendors who have recently accepted TechCASH and is the first student group to do so.

Now, LSC moviegoers will be able to use their MIT card to purchase tickets, cards with a fixed cash-value for refreshments (these cards may be redeemed in parts and at different events), and Multipasses which provide 6 movie admissions for $15 (the normal price of 5 admissions).

LSC is working with the Student Activities Office to accept the card as pilot project which may eventually allow other student groups to accept TechCASH at their events.

Founded in 1944, the MIT Lecture Series Committee is a student organization that shows feature films and brings famous lecturers to the MIT community. LSC shows a balance of current Hollywood blockbusters, classics, and foreign films, with profits used to fund lecture events. Recent past speakers include Buzz Aldrin, Harlan Ellison, John Deutch, Scott Adams, and J. Michael Straczynski. LSC can be reached at http://lsc.mit.edu/ or lsc@mit.edu.

Digital Sound has arrived at LSC!

LSC AND DTS BRING
'THE DIGITAL EXPERIENCE'
TO MIT

DTS Donation Brings Digital Sound to 26-100

CAMBRIDGE, MA (August 26, 1998) -- The MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC) announced today that, thanks to sound system improvements and a generous donation from Digital Theater Systems Inc., most films presented in 26-100 will feature top-quality digital sound. LSC's Registration Day movie, "Deep Impact", will be the premiere presentation of the new sound capabilities.

"We're thrilled to be able to provide a better theater experience, thanks to the enhanced sound quality made possible by the DTS system," said Jered Floyd, LSC Publicity Director. "This is the latest in a long series of improvements we have made to keep up with film technologies, to provide the best in entertainment to the MIT community."

Twenty-two of the twenty-five feature films on the LSC Fall schedule feature a DTS digital soundtrack.

DTS' flexible technology provides multi-channel digital audio on CD-ROM. A special reader attached to the film projector reads a timecode track printed on the film. The DTS decoder interprets this timecode and plays back the appropriate digital audio from CD-ROM. This virtually eliminates the noise and scratchiness associated with older analog optical sound.

DTS also offers much greater dynamic range and higher peak sound levels than conventional analog sound. LSC has improved the speakers and amplifiers in 26-100 to accomodate the increased demands of DTS; the stage channels have each been upgraded from 275 watts to 1200 watts, bringing the potential power output of the system to over 7000 watts.

DTS is the world's leading digital sound format for 35mm and 70mm motion pictures and is a product of Digital Theater Systems, Inc. of Westlake Village, California. The DTS digital sound system was launched with the release of Universal Pictures' and Amblin Entertainment's "Jurassic Park", and since then the company has maintained its position as the industry leader. More information on the company and the DTS system is available at http://www.dtstech.com/.

Founded in 1944, the MIT Lecture Series Committee is a student organization that shows feature films and brings famous lecturers to the MIT community. LSC shows a balance of current Hollywood blockbusters, classics, and foreign films, with profits used to fund lecture events. Recent past speakers include John Deutch, former Director of Central Intelligence; Scott Adams, creator of "Dilbert"; and J. Michael Straczynski, creator of "Babylon 5." LSC can be reached at http://lsc.mit.edu/.

(c) 1999 MIT Lecture Series Committee