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Maurice Leakey
 Post subject: Odeon Goes For Japanese
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:30 am 
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Odeon in the UK with 113 cinemas (890 screens) has now gone fully digital by installing Japanese projectors made by NEC.
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My picture shows NEC model NC1200C in screen 3 of the Odeon cinema in Bristol.

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Mike O'Regan
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:02 pm 
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What a boring, lifeless looking machine. Push a few buttons and you have an artificial film show.

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Yuck. Unless platters are turning and a little skill goes into showing a picture then it's nothing more than a home cinema. Audiences would be better off staying home and watching HBO.
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Maurice Leakey
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You don't even have to push the buttons, projectors are controlled by the computer. The show doesn't need an operator once it's all programmed.

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It's a lot of trouble and expense just to project a DVD.
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No, they are not DVDs.
I will put up photos in a few days of how films now arrive at cinemas.

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I know they're not DVDs, Maurice. I'm being facetious just to express my dislike of the whole digital thing.

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I was not aware that the comment was facetious, because there are so many people who think that digital cinemas use DVDs.

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Mike O'Regan wrote:
I know they're not DVDs, Maurice. I'm being facetious just to express my dislike of the whole digital thing.

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In my experience, when Real 3D hit theaters they used machines only showing very low resolution pics at 24 fps. Also the projectors were extremely expensive. Going total digital takes installing servers and huge hard drives. That was a few years ago, if this is going to be the common trend aren't most theaters going to have to to great expense to replace what they already have?
Our local theater runs 35mm on Super Simplex machines and do 3-D with the over-under method from the 80's with no problems. Why throw money to a digital system with low resolution?
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