my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Operations   » Digital Cinema Forum   » Watermarked Trailers?

Author Topic: Watermarked Trailers? Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 12-16-2010 04:16 PM                     So I saw a film today at a Cinema that isn't one of ours, and the trailer for 'The Next Three Days' looked like one of the ones you see at trade screenings, with poor resolution and a visible 'property of Lionsgate UK' watermark at the bottom. When did this start happening? I could only think they've added it ad hoc at the request of a distributor to gauge reactions from audiences (this Cinema is one of the top three grossing sites in the UK and draws a wide crowd). Regardless, it's not exactly great to see something that rough when as an industry we're pushing the image quality of digital to the customers. Any other views on this?  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 12-16-2010 06:19 PM                     I have to admit that sometimes we show trailers downloaded from the internet. Some of them e.g. official Disney trailers for press purposes, are very good at FullHD resolution. Sometimes we just don't get decent quality ones... I always feel sorry when I see something like that on our screen, but sometimes we have no choice and then DVD quality is the maximum we get. We never had trailers with watermarks, though. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.