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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 10/30/05 01:55
In article <MPG.1dc6b7b5a02ebc68989ab9@news.individual.net>,
Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>Mon, 24 Oct 2005 05:29:07 GMT from Manco <manco_dollars@net.com>:
>> Jordan wrote:
>> > I sat down this week-end and watched Batman Begins and was struck,
>> > immediately, at how much clearer it looks on DVD at home than it did
>> > in the theater. I don't have a AAA home theater set-up, but I have a
>> > nice 51" rear projection 16:9 set and Dolby Digital/DTS 6.1 surround.
>> >
>> > I remember thinking when I saw it in the theater that it was a little
>> > blurry, a little grainy, kind of hard to follow the action. I said to
>> > myself back then "I wonder what it's going to look like on DVD?"
>> >
>> > Turns out it kicks ass on DVD. Has anyone else had this experence? I
>> > first noticed it back when the Brendan Frasier version of the Mummy
>> > came out. I used to blame it on the projectionist (or lack of a
>> > trained one), but now I'm not so sure.
>> >
>> > - Jordan
>> and this why multiplexes are dying and DVD sales/rentals are BOOMING. People
>> do care about quality.
>Exactly. I went to the local theatre (Fall Creek Cinema, Ithaca) to
>see /The Aristocrats/. I was not pleased to be in the screening room
>where the screen is too high up, the seats are too close to it, and
>half of them are broken, but I decided to put up with it.
Wow. I feel lucky to be in area that is growing and decent
multiplexes are being built. One recently had plenty of room
between the seat and what struck me was the height of the back of
the seat. It went above the head of the average person so all you
saw were seat tops - as if there was no one else in the theatre.
Sound and picture were good. Even the blow-up of March of The
Penguins looked very good - which surprised me - as I understood
it had been shot in Super-16 [IMDB has no spec on shooting stock].
>What I could not put up with was distorted sound, on a dialog-driven
>movie to boot. I complained to the projectionist, but he shrugged his
>shoulders and said they knew about it but couldn't fix it. I demanded
>my money back; in three or four months I'll see the show in comfort
>for half the price.
And the only problem I've found with the sound in the local
googleplexes is that it is often far too loud. But I guess it's
designed for those who drive cars with super-loud sound systems you
can hear coming for blocks away.
--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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