Tyrone wrote: > What drivel! How many digitally projected movies have you seen? Thge > results that we've seen in the US have been excellent.
I went to this city's newest cinema complex yesterday. I remember them advertising digital projection, which I was definitely keen to check out. Unfortunately we only got digital projection for the ads. The larger theatres in the complex may use digital projectors for the main features but we had film. My only complaint about the digital projector? It had a hot pixel. A big bright green one. Teething problems aside, I'm looking forward to digital projection. No more excuses for Hollywood to stagger release dates (thus no valid reason for DVD region coding). Also we'd get consistent prints (err, files?) which never degrade, which is a huge plus to me. I've only seen really good prints twice: these were the first two LotR movies, which I saw at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington. Peter Jackson must have made sure they had the best prints available as they're the best I've ever seen. I'm going up there early next year for the final film. They didn't invite me to the premiere :( Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
