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Topic: Halloween on Halloween
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Evans A Criswell
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Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 11-02-2006 10:25 AM
A friend of mine saw this and was disappointed and said he wouldn't be going to future showings of that kind because he felt he could get a better presentation from a DVD at home. The pre-show advertising projectors do not have sufficient resolution for movie presentation and the blurriness is obvious if you're too close to the screen.
My friend, who saw Halloween, said:
Halloween was basically the DVD projected onto the theater screen. Blurry and letterboxed to boot. The sound was good. It was nice seeing it with some people who evidently hadn't seen it before, given the moans and squeals behind us. But still. If you have a DVD, I think you'd get a better presentation at home.
Personally, I find this current trend in a movie theatre presenation to be appalling and it makes me not want to go to any kind of "special engagement" that isn't a new release because I might as well just watch the DVD on my system at home if theatres are going to pull off this kind of presentation on an advertising projector with a source that has poor resolution and picture quality. Plus, they letterboxed the scope-shaped image on the flat screen when all their theatres have adjustable masking. Their source may be better than DVD but many cheap data-type projectors make the images look terrible. In fact, I've seen some data projectors that can turn DVD into something that looks worse than VHS on a good TV (like last Saturday night at a play I attended where a video from DVD was played before the play started - it looked blurry and awful), so I would be surprised to see projectors that can turn 720p into something that looks worse than a good DVD on a good 16:9 TV.
When people realize that theatres are showing something that doesn't even look as good as DVD on a high-quality 16:9 set, why will they bother going back? They might get the impression that it's par for the course for "digital projection" to be that way and avoid it.
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