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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
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posted 04-06-2007 07:41 PM
Six screens in five cinemas in the North East area; Fifty eight (I think at a quick count) screens in Greater London, plus two more in Croydon, which may, or may not, be part of London. It's been a London Borough since 1964, most of it has London telephone numbers, but doesn't have a London post code, for example.
I think there are two hundred and something screens in total, so London gets about 25% of them. How exactly does this over-representation of cinemas in the London area help to increase accessibility to 'specialist' film outside London?
We've only run one film on it so far, three shows, with a gap of about six or seven weeks before the next one which opens on the 20th of this month so it's still very early days for us. I've seen a few other things on it, mainly trailers, and I would say that it looks considerably better than the old 1.3k machines. Does it look better than film? I can't really say, Some film looks much better than other, and the same goes for digital. I remember thinking that one of the trailers I saw didn't look as good as the film versio that I'd seen, but 'Wizard of Oz' looked very good. I ran a couple of clips of hi-def video through it from my laptop, and I was surprised at how good that looked. Also tried a couple of DVDs; they didn't look so good, but still much better than they looked on the old video projector. A rather expensive way to project DVDs though.
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Stephen Furley
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posted 04-10-2007 03:13 PM
The projectors do not have an analogue input; the Christie interface box (I can never remember the name) does, in composite, Y/C, Y,Pr,Pb or RGB form, with various sync options, but HD players will normally only output at SD resolution on the analogue outputs when playing protected content.
The Christie box has a DVI input, which could be connected to DVD or HDMI HD outputs, but the unit does not support HDCP, and therefore will not display protected HD content; at least that's what the manual says. I don't actually have any suitable content to try it with.
The two unprotected clips that I tried playing from my laptop looked pretty good, not equal to propper digital cinema content, but considerably better than normal video.
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