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Hey Guys,
This weekend, while doing some visiting, I took the opportunity to go to my first movie viewed in a digital theater. Interesting experience that I expect most people in the States have already taken in.
There are only three digital DLP theaters in Canada though, so here you might have to do some travelling to take in this experience. The States has quite a few now. Here's a web site that lists all the locations. http://www.dlp.com/dlp_cinema/dlp_ci...ter_search.asp
The movie I saw was the latest Star Wars. Given that most people have seen this film by now and that it was a Sunday afternoon matinee, we had the theater pretty much to ourselves and could take our choice of the perfect location to sit and get the experience that Mr. Lucas intended.....
I have seen quite a few home "single DMD chip with color wheel" DLP projectors and was extremely interested to see what a three chip projector on a 60 foot screen looked like.
My overall assessment would be that it is a very impressive technology on the "big screen" and I would have to give it the nod over film. The first thing that you notice is that there is absolutely no film noise on the screen. It's funny how you notice this so quickly. I guess the mind is so use to a lifetime of watching film in a cinema and you expect to see that film noise. When it isn't there, it takes a little getting used to.
I'm also expecting to see that "softness" of the film image that isn't there in a digital picture, although these projectors have been adapted to give as close to a film like experience as possible. The picture is crystal clear.
The color depth and blacks were excellent I thought. This is usually a weak point of digital projectors, but I saw little evidence of it here.
You really had to look hard to see any pixel evidence. Only when there was a sharp diagonal black on white or white on black image could you see any "jaggies". You had to be concentrating to see it. I was sitting about the middle of the theater, so I can't say what it was like up close. Certainly, the people I was with, who are not HT'ers, would never notice it.
The picture was very bright and I saw no evidence of screen dooring..
Anyway, I give it a thumbs up.
I wonder if anyone else here has been to see this technology and what their opinion is...
brucek
This weekend, while doing some visiting, I took the opportunity to go to my first movie viewed in a digital theater. Interesting experience that I expect most people in the States have already taken in.
There are only three digital DLP theaters in Canada though, so here you might have to do some travelling to take in this experience. The States has quite a few now. Here's a web site that lists all the locations. http://www.dlp.com/dlp_cinema/dlp_ci...ter_search.asp
The movie I saw was the latest Star Wars. Given that most people have seen this film by now and that it was a Sunday afternoon matinee, we had the theater pretty much to ourselves and could take our choice of the perfect location to sit and get the experience that Mr. Lucas intended.....
I have seen quite a few home "single DMD chip with color wheel" DLP projectors and was extremely interested to see what a three chip projector on a 60 foot screen looked like.
My overall assessment would be that it is a very impressive technology on the "big screen" and I would have to give it the nod over film. The first thing that you notice is that there is absolutely no film noise on the screen. It's funny how you notice this so quickly. I guess the mind is so use to a lifetime of watching film in a cinema and you expect to see that film noise. When it isn't there, it takes a little getting used to.
I'm also expecting to see that "softness" of the film image that isn't there in a digital picture, although these projectors have been adapted to give as close to a film like experience as possible. The picture is crystal clear.
The color depth and blacks were excellent I thought. This is usually a weak point of digital projectors, but I saw little evidence of it here.
You really had to look hard to see any pixel evidence. Only when there was a sharp diagonal black on white or white on black image could you see any "jaggies". You had to be concentrating to see it. I was sitting about the middle of the theater, so I can't say what it was like up close. Certainly, the people I was with, who are not HT'ers, would never notice it.
The picture was very bright and I saw no evidence of screen dooring..
Anyway, I give it a thumbs up.
I wonder if anyone else here has been to see this technology and what their opinion is...
brucek
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