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Topic: Imax Laser Projection..anyone seen it yet?
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Alan Rik
Film God
Posts: 2211
From: New York City, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 08, 2016 09:09 AM
Here are the only theaters that currently have the 3D Laser Projectors: USA:
TCL Chinese Theatres IMAX – Hollywood, CA AMC Metreon 16 & IMAX – San Francisco, CA AMC Universal CityWalk Stadium 19 & IMAX – Universal City, CA Sunbrella IMAX 3D Theatre, Jordan’s Furniture Reading – Reading, MA Scotiabank Toronto & IMAX – Toronto, Canada Airbus IMAX, Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center – Chantilly, VA Boeing IMAX and the Pacific Science Center – Seattle, WA
International:
IMAX, Melbourne Museum – Australia Event Cinemas Queen Street IMAX – New Zealand VOX Cinemas & IMAX – UAE Cinestar Berlin & IMAX – Germany Filmpalast AM ZKM IMAX – Germany Empire Leicester Square IMAX – United Kingdom Cineworld Sheffield & IMAX – United Kingdom
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Bill Brandenstein
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1632
From: California
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted January 10, 2016 12:27 AM
I saw it. The future of film is very insecure because of this invention! AMC Universal Imax looks very, very good in this format. Comparing Interstellar 15/70 to this, the laser brightness is a bit more than film (not as much as I was expecting), the black levels are spectacularly low, and lower than film, but the 2K film format left a lot to be desired. Because of the huge contrast range and huge screen, "Force Awakens" looked fuzzy and noisy to me all the time, on row 6 of 13. There is no comparison to the resolution of 15/70 film, but I heard a Disney employee who is not authorized to make an official statment state this week that there was no way to run "Force Awakens" on better than a 2K Digital Intermediate on its production schedule.
Give laser projection better pixel resolution and bit depth, and you'll start to forget about film. I promise. At least a little.
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