Digital Projection - YUK!!!

[Cail Young]

ATLAB's digital screens aren't great. It's unfortunate.

The contrast for me was seeing Blade Runner - scanned and DI'd at 4K - projected with the Sony 4K at the Astor here in Melbourne. Incredibly gorgeous. I think you need to track down a better screen in NZ!

[M Most]

ATLAB's digital screens aren't great. It's unfortunate.

The contrast for me was seeing Blade Runner - scanned and DI'd at 4K - projected with the Sony 4K at the Astor here in Melbourne. Incredibly gorgeous. I think you need to track down a better screen in NZ!

The DCPs for Blade Runner are 2K.

[Scott Webster]

Hey Ben,

Happy New Year.

Have you been out to Sylvia Park? That AFAIK is the only true public digital cinema in NZ. Sylvia Park Hoyts DC

They're running dual Christie CP2000 PJ's

Having seen Beowulf though, if Digital 3D is the answer to the future of cinema I'd love to know what the hell the question was? :)

The Rialto 'Digital Experience' is well documented:

Rialto Digital 1
Rialto Digital 2
Rialto Digital 3

[Chris Kenny]

Having seen Beowulf though, if Digital 3D is the answer to the future of cinema I'd love to know what the hell the question was? :)

The movie industry starts getting all excited about 3D every time some new home entertainment technology comes along that people say will threaten theater-going. Then, a few years later, when it turns out no such thing is happening (because watching a movie at home doesn't provide the same social experience as watching it in a theater, and people don't generally have 720" televisions), everyone decides 3D is just a gimmick and it goes away... until next time.

This time it might stick around for occasional special releases of "visual experience" type movies, just because digital makes it a bit easier to do. But I seriously doubt it'll ever become the mainstream format for cinema.

[thornben]

Hey Ben,

Happy New Year.

Have you been out to Sylvia Park? That AFAIK is the only true public digital cinema in NZ. Sylvia Park Hoyts DC

They're running dual Christie CP2000 PJ's

Having seen Beowulf though, if Digital 3D is the answer to the future of cinema I'd love to know what the hell the question was? :)

The Rialto 'Digital Experience' is well documented:

Rialto Digital 1
Rialto Digital 2
Rialto Digital 3

Wow. Hi Guys. This is so encouraging to see that we are on the same page about this bs. How shocking and pathetic the Commerce Commission's statement was in that last Herald Article, Scott.

Ben, I feel your pain. Did you have to resort to the classic thing of saying "I work in the film industry!!!" or some equivalent statement to get them to listen? I find it's the only way to get them to shut up and stop spouting the bs answers they are told to give disgruntled customers. Just shut the f**K up, do your job, yes, I am 100% right, you are blind, lazy, dumb, and pissing me off. And they never rewind the print, either. Bastards. Occasionally if you can be bothered complaining some more afterwards you can get them to give you a free ticket - it's the least they can do, they can't return the time they stole from you - but why the hell do they even think it is acceptable to have bad pictures???? These people should be flogged, flayed, and burnt alive. Go, go! Back to the commerce degree you were too lazy to finish, back to your celebrity divorces, back to your hot oil wrestling, back to your E! Entertainment Television! You curs.

And don't get me started on the f**&&^&*%ing plebs who sit through the crap quality, condoning the cheating behaviour of these crooks. There must be some special place in hell reserved for their boring, mediocre asses.

It's all gone downhill since they fired all of the projectionists and put the films on platters and nobody checks the sodding focus anymore! Most screenings I go to nowadays are soft!

Yarrrrrrrgghh! Hisss!!!

p.s. Scott, have you read all the inane crap on CML about 3D film-making like they are the second coming or something? These people are hacks! And they auto-signed me up for their bollocks new forums without asking me!!!



/rant (for now)

Benjamin Rood
Prod/Dir
Cinematic Alliance

[Wes Printz]

And don't get me started on the f**&&^&*%ing plebs who sit through the crap quality, condoning the cheating behaviour of these crooks. There must be some special place in hell reserved for their boring, mediocre asses.

So, and how do you Really feel about this? :ranting2:

[C.J.Harvaraj]

Hi, i'm from singapore. I watched Spiderman 3 in 4k at one of the theaters here. The image was very sharp and clear. no artifacts or what so ever. since than i only watch movies which labeled (in 2k digital) in the newspaper ad. i read that they have the most 2k digital projector (barco) installed in a cinema in da world.

[Cail Young]

The DCPs for Blade Runner are 2K.

Are you sure? Because if what I saw at the Astor here in Australia was a 2K DCP on a 4K projector, I'll eat my hat. It just looked way, way, way too sharp for a screen that big to be 2K.

Either way, the Cars trailer in 4K... unbelievable.

[Jaime Vallés]

I have to say, watching digital projection at the Zigfield theater in NYC is my favorite. When I saw Mission: Impossible III projected digitally (2K, I think), I was completely blown away by the amazing quality. Crystal clear, sharp, great colors, perfect focus, no scratches or other signs of degradation (granted, I usually sit towards the rear of the theater, but it still looks spectacular.) I haven't even seen a 4K projection yet, but if 2K looks as good as it does on a 50 foot screen, I can't imagine needing to deliver in anything higher-res than that.

[nzben]

since than i only watch movies which labeled (in 2k digital) in the newspaper ad.

I'd probably be a lot happier if they advertised the movies clearly as being a digital projection:

(something like: Warning, this cinema contains substandard projection equipment which may be detrimental to your viewing experience even though you are paying full rates. Please enjoy the movie)

....but they don't. Not in the newspaper, not in the listings at the theater, not in the foyer of the theater, not as you enter, or in the theather itself. Infact a number of staff that I talked to didn't even know that that theater had a digital projector.

I guess the bottom line is most people don't know (because the cinema owners seem to be going out of their way not to inform anyone), they pay, they sit, they watch, they go home = cash for the theater owners.

This BTW has all happened since Rialto got brought out by one of the major cinema chains.