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Topic: King Arthur in DLP -- but not really!
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Thomas Procyk
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From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-09-2004 11:16 AM
Central (GMT -6:00) (5:16 PM Local)
Went to see King Arthur this past Wednesday at the AMC Pleasure Island 24, advertized in the newspaper, on the internet, at the box office, and on the sign above the theater as being in DLP.
The AMC Preshow concluded, and we all sat there for about 5 minutes after the scheduled start time. Finally the film started. Wait... Film? YEP!
I looked up to see a Century whirring away, playing the trailers, while the DLP projector sat dark. Okay, I thought, maybe they didn't get all the right trailers on the DLP version, so we'll watch the trailers on film and the feature on DLP. Interesting.
But wait! Here comes the AMC Feature tag and... the feature!! ON FILM!! I went out to find a manager, and there they were, right outside the auditroium doors discussing how they had to run the backup print. How convenient! I asked why it wasn't in DLP, and one of them got this smile on his face like, "Uh oh, they noticed." I said I knew it was film because the picture was brighter and there were no pixels. The manager explained that for some reason Disney decided at the last minute that there was to be no DLP presentation of King Arthur due to "digital watermarking problems." I shrugged and went back into the movie.
Now I must say that the feature film presentation was TOP NOTCH! One of the trailers was a bit dusty, but once the feature started, we were treated to a BRIGHT, SHARP, and ROCK STEADY image. If it wasn't for the cue marks, I would have never noticed the reel changes. Splices were invisible. I thought it may even be ultrasonic splices, but I've seen tape on every show I've watched at this theater. Maybe they save the "best of the best" for the 35mm Digital Backup?
The ONLY flaw that probably tipped off the audience was a lab splice in one of the latter reels.
As I was leaving, the box office was changed and no longer showed "DLP" as part of the title.
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