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Author Topic: Digital projectors Alex Grasic Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Toronto, ON, Canada Registered: Jul 2002 posted 06-27-2003 03:38 AM                     Is anyone else's theatres in the process of testing digital projectors? They just recently installed one to run the corporate trailers in one of our houses. Any opinion on it? Do you think it will catch on? Where does the industry stand with respect to using digital projectors to run the full picture and not just trailers?  |  IP: Logged Ron Lacheur Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 650 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-27-2003 04:02 AM                     digital projectors as in DLP? or just regular video projectors. One theater chain was thinking about installing video projectors to run pre-show slides and that trivia crap.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 06-27-2003 04:42 AM                        A local bargain house is using a cheap laptop with Powerpoint and a Boxlight video projector to emulate a slide presentation. I was surprised that, considering the house lights were all the way up and the lens was so small the whole darn screen was full, it looked a lot better than I'd have imagined it would. They got the projector for about 3k$, used.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-27-2003 08:11 AM                        Here is information about the Kodak Digital Cinema Operating System for pre-show ads: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/digital/ And the Kodak Digital Cinema System: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/digital/system.shtml Here is a link to the latest product announcements made this week at Cine-Expo: http://www.boxoffice.com/scripts/newsviewstory.asp?ID=4893  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-27-2003 02:49 PM                       http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/digital/system.shtml Hey, John, that logo looks strangely similar to the Altec conductor!  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-27-2003 03:29 PM                        First time I've heard that comment. The Logo's been in use for over a year. Assume it was done by a graphic design company.  |  IP: Logged Alex Grasic Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Toronto, ON, Canada Registered: Jul 2002 posted 07-01-2003 12:40 AM                     Well, right now, they're starting to use a digital projector for the preshow and corporate trailers on one of our screens, just curious on how far along they are on running a full feature off a digital device.  |  IP: Logged Phillip Seib Film Handler Posts: 7 From: Durham, NC, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-01-2003 01:54 AM                     We used a DLP projector (Barco r-6) for the Full Frame FF in April. We held a tribute for the late Charles E. Guggenheim in which we were to show the combined works of Charles and his daughter Grace titled BERGA: SOLDIERS OF ANOTHER WAR. Grace Guggenheim (the director) was on hand to recieve a lifetime acheivement award for her father. We had a copy on both 35mm and digibeta that ran on the Barco. We ran a reel of the film on 35mm and a few minutes on digibeta and allowed her to decide how she wanted her work to be shown. She chosed digibeta. Now keep in mind that the majority of the film was old 16mm stock or on digital cam.(also it was transfered to 1.66 ratio) So I guess it matters the original film media it was shot on. I have seen DLP look great and I've seen it look really bad but digital films look better on DLP than with 35mm transfer.  |  IP: Logged David Rigby Expert Film Handler Posts: 134 From: Chorlton, Manchester, UK Registered: May 2002 posted 07-02-2003 05:23 AM                     "I have seen DLP look great and I've seen it look really bad but digital films look better on DLP than with 35mm transfer. " Maybe it depends on whether the digital 'film' is live action or animated. When I saw Monsters Inc digital (working on the assumption that digital origination would be best on digital projection) it looked flat & lifeless compared to when I saw Shrek on film. David  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-02-2003 11:05 AM                        It's hard to beat the contrast ratio of animation printed on Kodak VISION Premier Color Print film, which can have a density range of over 4.0 (10,000:1 contrast ratio) on the film. My favorite way of quieting digital projection fans is to play shadow puppets in the "black" areas of the digital image.  |  IP: Logged

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