Posted by Mr. Anderson on 12/28/39 11:30

"Mark Jones" <noemail@mindspring.com> wrote in news:7IK8f.1758$m81.1672
@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net:

>> Maybe the projectionist wasn't properly trained to use the equipment
>> and didn't know how to optimize the focus.

> we do not have
> anyone checking to make sure that the movie is being
> shown properly. You don't have to experience problems
> very many time before you just quit going.

The theatres seem to want to hire primarily high school kids for minimum
wage, which is no way to get qualified talent to operate advanced
electronic equipment.

Over the past couple of years I've seen several articles saying that
some really high-tech new projection equipment was on the way, to allow
downloading of films from servers at the production sites, via the
internet. I have no way to know whether they've ever been installed,
but I also have no reason to believe that they haven't, so I assume that
the technology is creeping along and will arrive sporadically at first
and five years late in the end.

A few years I tried to watch Callista Flockhardt in A Mid-Summer Night's
dream at a second run theatre, but there was some a really loud audio
problem that made it sound like a helicopter was landing. My guess was
that there was a loose contact somewhere between the signal output and
the input to the last amplifier stage. I got peeved, walked out and got
my money back, and I was amazed that the rest of the crowd seemed to be
sitting in the theatre and either hoping the problem would go away or
living with it. It completely destroyed the movie.

And this was a low tech system that they couldn't work. If they
couldn't get the low tech working, they'll surely have problems with
today's high tech systems.

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