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Topic: XPanD 3D system
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Mark Lensenmayer
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Posts: 1605
From: Upper Arlington, OH
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 07-24-2008 04:15 PM
I saw the awful JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH today at a Marcus theatre. The 3D system was called XPand. The digital system was Dolby, but these glasses looked a lot different from the glasses I see on the Dolby website.
The glasses were gray with a large lens. The glasses are heavy and very uncomfortable. I finally just pulled off my regular glasses and lived with it.
I was not impressed. The room had a 28 foot screen, and the 3D image was very, very dim...almost as dim as the over-under 3D prints of the 80's. The glasses really seemed to eat up a lot of light. I've seen Real-D, and it was a brighter 3D image on a larger screen. The 3D stage seemed to be rather shallow, neither going back into the screen very much or coming out very far into the audience.
There was a special 3D trailer for the system, but it had no sound, so I couldn't hear what they were saying. Sound on all of the other trailers was just fine.
Marcus is usually does a very fine technical presentation, but this was not up to their standards.
Marcus is charging a $2.00 premium for the 3D. Two tickets are generated at the box office and one ticket is given to an usher at the door to exchange for the 3D glasses. Matinee admission was $10.00 for this film, about $9.50 more then it was worth.
Website for XPanD is here.
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