The Possibilities For Digital Theaters
from the going-beyond-film dept
I finally made it out to see Attack of the Clones on a digital screen last night, and as expected, it looks quite amazing. As more and more theaters go digital, not only will they get to show such clean movies, but they're more likely to start offering alternative programming as well. Apparently, theaters with digital projectors are trying out things such as broadcasting sporting events and music concerts. In Canada, apparently, movie theaters showing wrestling events on their screens have been selling out seats. Of course, if you look at the sports bar experience, I would imagine that movie theaters that sell beer to go along with their sporting events would be an even bigger draw...
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Smoothness
Phillip.
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Showing alternative content is probably just something to make the transition to digital more palatable to the theaters. Relatively few movies today are distributed in digital form, so a theater has a large potential to sit idle if one of the few digital releases is a dud. Once most movies are released in both film and digital, this won't be an issue.
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What's so great about it?
- Alan
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Re: What's so great about it?
What I liked about the digital screen was how clean and crisp the picture was. Compared to a regular film-based movie, there was a huge, noticeable difference.
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