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Author Topic: Drafthouse Theatres VerticalVision® Terry Monohan Master Film Handler Posts: 379 From: San Francisco CA USA Registered: May 2014 posted 05-02-2019 12:41 AM                     Coming soon to a theatre near you another screen format system. Time to dig out the cinema attic/ceiling and go tall. Was this a April fools day joke? Seems like Alamo Draft House is putting in this 50' tall screen in their new cinema in LA. Will be available to other circuits and companies also. They turn the Barco projector sideways and go high. I still like CinemaScope® wide films on a curved screen. This may work if they use the height only in parts of a film when you need to use It and shoot tall. Pan & Scan may come back! How many people will have neck pain looking up after 2 hours? Go to their web site and look It up.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-02-2019 01:03 AM                     Alamo Drafthouse Vertical Vision  |  IP: Logged Peter Foyster Expert Film Handler Posts: 102 From: ROLEYSTONE WESTERN AUSTRALIA Registered: Aug 2016 posted 05-02-2019 02:21 AM                     Perhaps the TV manufacturers can get in on the act also so viewers can fill the screen with their photos and videos taken on mobile phones in portrait mode. Or maybe the whole idea is play to those phone users who observe the world vertically.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 05-02-2019 04:34 AM                     I've got a far better idea: Instead of rotating the screen by 90 degrees, let's rotate the seats by 90 degrees.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 05-02-2019 06:13 AM                     Another dbox business case. Vomit-Ohhh-Vision... - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-02-2019 08:49 AM                        Oh dear ... they appear to be suffering from Vertical Video Syndrome! It is a problem when someone takes a cellphone video that later needs to be shown on a TV or theater screen. Much of the footage in the Cat Video Fest DCP showreel was pillarboxed vertical cellphone videos. Of course Sod's Law dictates that these were also the best videos, in terms of their actual content.  |  IP: Logged Geoff Jones Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 579 From: Broomfield, CO, USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 05-02-2019 09:05 AM                        quote: Terry Monohan Was this a [sic] April fools day joke? Yes  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-02-2019 12:26 PM                     Just Say No To Vertical Videos!  |  IP: Logged Gary Wachter Film Handler Posts: 21 From: Coppell, TX, USA Registered: Jul 2010 posted 05-02-2019 04:33 PM                     Unfortunately not a joke. Samsung just announced a new TV for the horizontally challenged! Vertical TV  |  IP: Logged James Biggins Film Handler Posts: 31 From: Leicester U.K. Registered: Oct 2014 posted 05-02-2019 04:41 PM                     God help us. The end is nigh!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-02-2019 10:11 PM                     quote: Samsung says the Sero is designed to encourage young people to project more of their smartphone stuff onto the TV by allowing it to go vertical. Or perhaps these Millennials could turn their brains on and simply rotate their damn phones.  |  IP: Logged Emiel De Jong Film Handler Posts: 48 From: Geldrop The Netherlands Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-03-2019 03:40 AM                     In 1961 there was a comic strip in Dutch newspapers "Mr. Van Kwikschoten en de speelfilm" which described what would happen if Dutch manufacturer Flipse and American Mr. Podd would get their way:  |  IP: Logged

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