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Posted by moviePig on 10/25/05 17:05
Fred C. Dobbs wrote:
> I noticed as I read down most of this thread that there were no
> complaints about theaters that do not project Film but project digital
> images from what I presume is some sort of DLP. Back in the mid
> 1990's I had a had heard that the some of the multiplex chains were
> installing some type of Digital Satellite receiver and recorder
> (optical Disc was the term I think) . That the movies in the future
> were to be downloaded from Satellite and that if a movie had to be
> changed for any reason it could be re-edited and over night the new
> version could be distributed to all the theaters.
>
> When I was younger I used to see trucks delver the film to the
> theaters in cans that the reels of the movies were transported in.
> I do not see that now. I do live in a Major metropolitan area with
> Many Many theaters.
>
> The last few movies I have seen at an actual theater were in some of
> the brand new multiplex theaters that been built in the last 5 years.
> The Movies have were not properly masked so we were treated to what
> is called "Dot Crawl" at the bottom of the screen as well as some
> Macroblocking mysterious green lines and a Washed out look, all of
> which I have seen before on improperly set up TV's and Monitors.
>
> The last movie I saw at a Theater was War of the Worlds and that again
> was not a projected Film but some sort of DLP. The picture quality at
> that theater was pretty good so I will be interested in the DVD
> version to see how it compares.
>
> Just my 2 cents worth FWIW
I, too, noticed the conspicuous absence of any mention of DLP, which,
e.g., seems particularly relevant to earlier-discussed issues of
old/scratched/rare film... and maybe relevant even to incompetent
projectionists. Re DLP's quality, the argument has heretofore been
"DLP's not as good as film"... but that's increasingly turning into the
more mystical "DLP's *not* film". I know that, today, a 35mm frame does
carry more bandwidth... but a finger in the wind suggests the
approaching demise of that advantage. E.g., I think that Texas
Instruments recently released a 1080-line DLP chip vs. their previous
780(?)-line champ. It seems plain to me that soon we'll be paying a
theater to see an exactly-like-DVD movie, but merely early, and
*possibly* at higher-res than we can afford to show at home. And,
though heretical, my belief is that (eventually anyway) nothing but
nostalgia will be lost...
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