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Topic: Stewart's "5D" screen
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Frank Angel
Film God
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 06-20-2013 11:26 AM
Well, I saw the Stewart "5D" screen; it was demoed yesterday at an arthouse new installation (Christie digital with RealD 3D)and, at least just looking at the surface close up, looks like any other ordinary silver screen (microperfed). And like any ordinary silver screen, the presentation had a distinct hot spot. Is it as bad as the hotspots I've seen elsewhere? No, but a hotspot nevertheless, and I changed seats a few times. It was quite noticeable with the trailer for LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. This venue plans to screen lots of classics, i.e., lots of 2D, and I imagine they were sold on Stewart's claim that this "5D" is a "special, dual purpose" silver screen that works well for 3D and for 2D as well. The claim, at least from me, is false. If I were to have to sit thru LOA for 3 hours with that kind of fall-off at the edges of that beautiful cinematography, I would be pulling more of what little hair I have on my head out by the handful. Not to mention it is 1.85 with no top and bottom masking, at least not with this demo, so I guess digital's hard edges precludes the need for masking, eh? In all fairness, it is a restoration of an old theatre with a limited width proscenium, and they do plan to run lots of classics including silents so they probably concluded that getting more height was the best compromise that would get a bigger image for the Academy stuff. Thing is, the minute you have to say the word "compromise," you then can't say "state-of-the-art" in the same breath, IMHO.
QSC speakers throughout, BTW, and that sound was NOT a compromise. Dialog was crystal clear and the bottom end was so intense that when the creature in the PACIFIC RIM trailer stomped it's foot down, you could feel the impact come at you like a tidal wave across your body, so robusts that you could feel it rattling your gonads. No compromise in the sound department.
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