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Re: Hi Def versions of Pixar films?

Posted by Dave Plowman (News) on 10/11/05 18:36

In article <hd0ok1djuajjtuukajtopu9tusvr20s3i0@4ax.com>,
Stewart Pinkerton <patent3@dircon.co.uk> wrote:
> >It would require an *incredibly* tatty 35mm film projector to give
> >results in a cinema as soft as PAL at its best. And I doubt such a
> >beast was ever used in UK mainstream cinemas. Of course if the lenses
> >etc were filthy and it wasn't focused correctly...

> Actually they were. I first saw 'The Elephant Man' in a video-based
> multi-screen cinema in Dunfermline, Fife (one video screen, two film
> screens). Yup, the picture was pretty shoddy, and the cinema itself
> somewhat smaller than many of the 'Home Theatres' we now see in the AV
> magazines. That would have been way back in the mid-eighties.

'Back street' cinemas used 16mm before video projection arrived. As I
said, 35mm prints cost. And 16mm is pretty close to PAL type resolution at
worst.

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*Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one? *

Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
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