DLP (Digital Light Processing) is here to Stay

[.Kompressor]

thought this was interesting read for movie buffs. :)

Celluloid film has been used to shoot, distribute and screen movies for more than 100 years. Now, the movie industry is at the threshold of the biggest change in its history: the transition from film to digital.

Finding Nemo, Master and Commander and Pirates of the Caribbean are just a few of the over 100 movies that have been digitally released to date. And with the May 2002 release of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones?the first all-digital live action feature, shot without a single roll of film? the digital revolution arrived to stay.

WHAT EXACTLY IS DIGITAL CINEMA?

Digital cinema encompasses every aspect of the movie making process, from production and post-production to distribution and projection.

While digital cameras are nothing new, and post-production houses have been using digital equipment to edit and master movies and animation for some time, the all-digital distribution and projection of movies has only recently arrived to complete the chain.

A digitally produced or digitally converted movie can be distributed to theaters via satellite, physical media, or fiber optic networks. The digitized movie is stored by a computer/server which "serves" it to a digital projector for each screening of the movie. Projectors based on DLP Cinema? technology are currently installed in over 200 theaters worldwide-and remain the first and only commercially available digital cinema projectors.

All the information you want on DLP:

http://www.dlp.com/dlp_cinema/dlp_cinema_d..._cinema_101.asp[/ucurrent Full Digital Films in theatres.s.

Alexander

National Treasure

The Polar Express

The Incredibles

Shark Tale

I really liked Master and Commander. The sound effects alone from the Canon's was fantastic. The key to a full digital experience is finding the right theatre with the proper equipment (DLP)

[QuantumTrickery]

I think the true experience is bringing the digital experience back into your own home. Even the best of theaters have their problems, most especially with sound quality and picture quality. As far as my home theater system goes, no theater can compare to that experience.

[Veedems Veteran]

One guy I used to work with, a real home theater buff, got two tickets to a DLP movie in the city. He said the quality of the image was amazing.

For the home experience, DLP is great as it gives a higher contrast than LCD Projo's (for them ost part), but the DLP really falls short on SD broadcasts.

[Liquid]

Considering that DLP projectors get into the trillions of colors I would say it has to be an amazing picture.

[TruckWEB]

My guess is that every HDTV fall short on SD broadcast. I own a Panasonic Tau HDTV 4:3 36inch TV and it's very good watching DVD or HD broadcast but in SD, I can see the pixels and sometime it can be very ugly.

It's not DLP, it's standard CRT and still, falling back to SD is not pretty.

[kombolcha]

yep.. we're supposed to get our new 65" DLP TV delivered sometime this week.. now to put in the order for our Tivo HD receiver :happy:

i'll be doin a review on it too.

[.Kompressor]

^ Don't forget to pickup the Dolby Digital Surround Sound System while your at it cause your only half way there with the Digital TV alone.

Dolby Digital Surround Sound Theatres are the Shiznit....Amazing sound

[kombolcha]

i already got that covered.

got 4 speakers mounted on the corners of the cielings.. then i got 4 more on the floor, the subwoofer will sit right above the TV.

the only thing is, they're RCA :/ they're good enough i guess, i'd wish we can get one of those standing speakers, but they're like $200 each.

what i have is good enough.

edit: forgot about the progressive scan DVD player.. gotta get one of those to.

[Veedems Veteran]

My guess is that every HDTV fall short on SD broadcast.  I own a Panasonic Tau HDTV 4:3 36inch TV and it's very good watching DVD or HD broadcast but in SD, I can see the pixels and sometime it can be very ugly.

It's not DLP, it's standard CRT and still, falling back to SD is not pretty.

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Trust me, on DLP it's even worse. Many HDTV's handle SD pretty well. At work, our tube HD sets are only hooked up to the HD signal because there are no component hookups on that side of the store, and they all look pretty good with the exception of the Samsung.

[Rob2687]

Benq pe8700 :drool:

Whats SD? Standard definition, is that like cable tv broadcasts or somehting? We only use our DLP projector for dvd movies. and some 720p movies

Edited November 24, 2004 by Rob2687

[neoufo51]

edit: forgot about the progressive scan DVD player.. gotta get one of those to.

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Be nice if you had one of the new HDMI output players. That Panasonic S97 with the Faroudja Genesis chip... :happy:

[JnCoKiLLa]

Be nice if you had one of the new HDMI output players. That Panasonic S97 with the Faroudja Genesis chip... :happy:

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it would also be nice if cablevision and such would but them on the HD Cable boxs

[Veedems Veteran]

it would also be nice  if cablevision and such would but them  on the HD Cable boxs

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You want to know something funny about HD cable boxes? In my area, the parts that are covered by Time Warner (I'm in cablevisions area) have access to HD boxes if they want that have DVI on them. The problem? The software for the DVI output is not on the box so you can't use DVI at all lol.