A growing number of blockbuster, live-action films and animated movies are expected to be offered in 3-D in the next few years, as thousands of theatres around the country are outfitted with the special projectors and screens needed to show the films. About 700 theatres across the country are now outfitted with 3-D technology, with thousands of others moving to spend the $17,000 needed to install the equipment. So far, moviegoers have reacted positively to the few 3-D films that have been released in recent years, eager to shell out a few extra bucks for special 3D glasses.
For theatre owners and studios, the technology could be the answer they need to sophisticated home theatre systems, pirated movies, video games and other alternative entertainment. Some industry executives think theatres can add as much as 50% to the cost of a ticket for a 3-D feature. Moviemakers, meanwhile, estimate that making a movie in 3-D can add as much as $15 million to the cost.
Previous 3-D systems projected two images on the movie screen, one for each eye. That required the use of red and blue lenses or even glasses with mechanized shutters that opened and closed quickly to separate the images. With newer systems, moviegoers still need to don special glasses but this time special polarized lenses separate the stereo images projected on uniquely coated screens. The theatres also use digital projectors that show movies stored in bits on a computer hard disk rather than traditional film.
News source: CNN
For theatre owners and studios, the technology could be the answer they need to sophisticated home theatre systems, pirated movies, video games and other alternative entertainment. Some industry executives think theatres can add as much as 50% to the cost of a ticket for a 3-D feature. Moviemakers, meanwhile, estimate that making a movie in 3-D can add as much as $15 million to the cost.
Previous 3-D systems projected two images on the movie screen, one for each eye. That required the use of red and blue lenses or even glasses with mechanized shutters that opened and closed quickly to separate the images. With newer systems, moviegoers still need to don special glasses but this time special polarized lenses separate the stereo images projected on uniquely coated screens. The theatres also use digital projectors that show movies stored in bits on a computer hard disk rather than traditional film.
News source: CNN
Wouldn't there be a loss of quality?
Wouldn't there be a loss of quality?
why? rather on the contrary
Wouldn't there be a loss of quality?
why? rather on the contrary
Digital projection has a resolution that is less then film... unfortinuatly... but it does cost less to redistribute
Wouldn't there be a loss of quality?
why? rather on the contrary
Digital projection has a resolution that is less then film... unfortinuatly... but it does cost less to redistribute
one of my local theaters uses digital projection and tbh i didn't notice a difference.
Glassed Silver:mac
The benefits can be greater color fidelity, adaptability for polarized 3D projection, variety of source signals, purer white point and cheaper equipment, training and maintenance costs.
Drawbacks to digital can be shallow dark point and color contrast, less resolution compared to large format celluloid (IMAX) as well as the myriad of “technical possibilities.” Like playback system crashes, audio glitches, inept operators.
I recently saw Meet the Robinsons in Disney Digital 3D. The cinema they presented it in bought a Christie CP2000 3-Chip DLP digital cinema projector for the showing as well as future ones. That beast threw a gorgeous image. While there was a noticeable loss of resolution as opposed to film, the colors were bright and lustrous, and of course the 3D was the best I’ve ever seen. All I had to don was a cheapo pair of plastic polarized lenses and the image gained its “pop.”
Film always had a grain that bothered me. That gritty dithering would distract me sometimes. Then if the film was run for a while it would develop scratches and begin to waver in the frame.
I embrace out new digital projection technologies with open arms…er…eyes!
digital projection - im surprised they didnt switch over ages ago, I hate the spots that appear all over the screen, even with a new film. dvd's are digital, why weren't cinema projections?
Are you freaking kidding me? Going to a movie these days is a ripoff. And if you happen to have a couple of kids, ouch! And the idea of adding up to 50% more cost for a ticket? Puh-lease.
Plus I don't particularly like the idea of wearing glasses, but there may be no technical way to avoid that at present.
Oh if only Holodecks would actually come to existence.
as if the movies werent expensive enough lol
Glassed Silver:mac
as if the movies werent expensive enough lol
Glassed Silver:mac
qft
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