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Author Topic: Anyone install D-BOX motion seats? Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 07-13-2009 01:30 AM                        Just curious. The Galaxy Cannery theatres here have installed these motion seats in several of their auditoriums. They charge an extra $7.00 for them. From what I saw on a local TV news story, it looked like seven or eight seats total in two rows about half way up the stadium section. I assume these seats were installed for Harry Potter opening this week.  |  IP: Logged Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 07-13-2009 10:06 AM                  They sell these for home use as well. I was thinking it might be cool to get it if enough blu-rays continue to come out the the required encoding.  |  IP: Logged Timothy Eiler Expert Film Handler Posts: 126 From: Litchfield , Minnesota, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-26-2009 12:38 PM                        The Theatres at MOA (Mall of America) installed, a few rows for the opening of Terminator.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 07-26-2009 04:55 PM                     Do these seats run all the time or just when someone is occupying them? (in the theatre environment?)  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-27-2009 01:36 AM                        An extra $7? Geesh, that gimmick isn't even as good as the 3D gimmick yet they charge MORE than 3D? How would they possibly entice anyone to pay that? A chair that moves. Wow.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-27-2009 04:38 AM                     Are they the same like the XpanD seats, or same company? Gee, what circuits do for x-tra revenue...  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-27-2009 06:06 AM                     Wouldn't it be a bit distracting having the seat in front of you moving about?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 07-27-2009 12:58 PM                        That's what I would think. The video I saw shows the entire six-seat section (four in the lower row, two in the row above) moving as one unit. Would annoy the shit out of me if I were sitting anywhere near it. Fortunately these seats were installed next to an aisle, not on the center-line. I tend to see films during mid-week matinees when there are fewer people and more seating choices, so sitting far away from moving seats shouldn't be a problem. I imagine the operator can disable them if there are no customers for them. Otherwise anyone could sit in them once the show starts and not have to pay the extra fee. I've not been to Galaxy Theaters at The Cannery yet (opposite end of the world from where I live at the moment). Still, would like to check them out sometime.  |  IP: Logged Sam King Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 07-28-2009 01:53 AM                     Do they work off of the DTS timecode or just by reading the analog channel?  |  IP: Logged Scott Ribbens Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Los Angeles Registered: Oct 1999 posted 07-28-2009 02:09 AM                     The D-Box seats have a sensor in them and will not move unless someone is sitting in them. The Controller is tied into the POS and automatically activates seats as they are sold. The operator can activate / deactivate seats as well. The D-Box code is only available (As far as I am aware) with D- Cinema.  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 07-28-2009 07:36 PM                     I tried out the D-BOX seats at the Mann Chinese in Hollywood (the multi just next to/behind the main Chinese). In the foyer they had a demo stand with 2 D-BOX seats running the Harry Potter tralier in D-BOX. The seat vibrates and moves in all directions on some kind of gimbal. I'll say that while some people might enjoy it, it's just not for me. Do I sound like a killjoy if I say that better scripts will make the movie more involving, not 3D and D-BOX? Certainly, that's my true opinion. D-BOX will not turn a mediocre movie into BACK TO THE FUTURE or THE KARATE KID. If the intended goal is to get people out of the house and into the theatre, the best way to do that (again, in my opinion) is to make the theatre environment clean and inviting and make the picture and sound quality as good as it can possibly be. By that I mean correct lighting levels, focussed xenon, quality lenses, clean screens, and correctly EQ'd sound systems. Do this and combine it with a movie with a quality script and I think people will line up around the corner. Even these days.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 07-28-2009 07:54 PM                     Combine moving seats and 3D and you'd better have a good stock of vomit bags. "Puke O Rama"  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 07-28-2009 08:42 PM                        Don't forget the Sensurround and Smell-o-Vision cues. Oh, and the Tingler-style electro-shock add-ons...  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-30-2009 12:14 AM                     quote: Paul Mayer Oh, and the Tingler-style electro-shock add-ons... They should just install a taser on each seat!!  |  IP: Logged Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 07-30-2009 01:29 PM                     quote: They should just install a taser on each seat!! Good stuff!!  |  IP: Logged

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