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Topic: Is the DCI slipping?
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
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Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 09-09-2006 09:10 PM
quote: Mark Gulbrandsen 1.3K is dead as far as cinemas go. It is not part of the DC Standard at all and studios are not allowing any content to be run on them.
There is truth and fiction here. 1.3K is a dead format for sure. TI no longer manufactures the SXGA (1280 x 1024) chip set. For A/V, they have SXGA+ (1400 x 1050) and for others 1920 x 1080 and for DCinema and some upper end AV 2048 x 1080.
I did a studio screening 2-weeks ago on a 1.3K system. Is it their preferred? No, but the screening was done on a 1.3K system because that is what the facility had.
quote: Mark Gulbrandsen Theya re also not at all DCI Compliant nor were they really designed to be.
Again...half truth there. They are not DCI compliant in that they are neither 2K nor 4K but they do accept 2K resolutions. Whereas they predate DCI, it would be kinda hard to hold them to a non-existant spec. However, these machines WERE sold on the premise that they WOULD be DCinema machines and would be able to be used for the foreseeable future. They do have Link-Decryption that is required of all DCinema projectors and is not found in A/V projectors.
Personally, I think the abandonment of the 1.3K machines is absolutely stupid on everyone's part. These are the machines that the current machines stood upon to get where they are.
More importantly, the DCinema industry has now shown that they will render useless any investment anyone makes in the industry in as short as 12-months time.
By abandoning the 1.3K machines they kill a secondary resale market. Someone that invested in the state-of-the-art technology should be able to sell that technology as they replace their equipment to remain state-of-the-art. Alternately, if one wants, they should be able to move a 1.3K machine down from their larger theatres to their smaller ones where the lower resolution will have less of an effect.
To claim that 1.3K is not good enough as a reason for not supporting it is absurd. It was good enough when it came out...it has not gotten worse...there are no just much better alternatives. To put this in film terms...it would be like the studios saying that if you don't have Schneider or ISCO lenses made within the last 10-years, you can not play our films since the older lens designs did not resolve as well.
Steve
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