Dark Knight, which I saw in IMAX, framed everything as if it was 100% IMAX... i.e. something like a 4:3 AR. However, another movie I saw in IMAX had the entire movie letterboxed so the AR was academy standard leaving a lot of black screen real estate.
I have read there are no IMAX shot sequences, so I assume it's going to be letterboxed, right?
Gotta say, watching letterboxed on an IMAX screen doesn't really cut it all that well...
Star Trek on IMAX is letterbox, but that letterbox is bigger than the letterbox in a "regular" theater by a large margin, not to mention the better sound system you are much more likely to find in an IMAX theater vs a regular.
And Dark Knight only had a few screens in full IMAX format where it would go from letterbox to full screen. The whole thing was not 100% IMAX. It flipped back and forth between normal widescreen and full screen IMAX format.
The Star Trek in Imax that I just watched was NOT letterboxed. This was in a recently outfitted AMC using the dual DLP projectors and it was fucking fantastic. I don't see how anyone can have any complaints with it. Film or digital projection has NEVER delivered the kind of experience I just had. No, it wasn't 70ft Imax, but god damned if it wasn't better than anything else out there. If that's the trade-off I have to accept in order to get this level of quality locally, without them having to build a special theater just for it, FINE BY ME. There was not one aspect of the presentation that I felt was lacking. Brightness, image quality, fidelity, color, SOUND were all top notch.
While there may be issues with a specific theaters settings or calibration or whatever, I simply can't understand anyone having any complaints with a properly outfitted "Imax Digital" theater.
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riverside_guy @ May 10th 2009 1:16PM
Dark Knight, which I saw in IMAX, framed everything as if it was 100% IMAX... i.e. something like a 4:3 AR. However, another movie I saw in IMAX had the entire movie letterboxed so the AR was academy standard leaving a lot of black screen real estate.
I have read there are no IMAX shot sequences, so I assume it's going to be letterboxed, right?
Gotta say, watching letterboxed on an IMAX screen doesn't really cut it all that well...
AndyS @ May 10th 2009 3:02PM
Star Trek on IMAX is letterbox, but that letterbox is bigger than the letterbox in a "regular" theater by a large margin, not to mention the better sound system you are much more likely to find in an IMAX theater vs a regular.
And Dark Knight only had a few screens in full IMAX format where it would go from letterbox to full screen. The whole thing was not 100% IMAX. It flipped back and forth between normal widescreen and full screen IMAX format.
oolz @ May 12th 2009 10:49PM
The Star Trek in Imax that I just watched was NOT letterboxed. This was in a recently outfitted AMC using the dual DLP projectors and it was fucking fantastic. I don't see how anyone can have any complaints with it. Film or digital projection has NEVER delivered the kind of experience I just had. No, it wasn't 70ft Imax, but god damned if it wasn't better than anything else out there. If that's the trade-off I have to accept in order to get this level of quality locally, without them having to build a special theater just for it, FINE BY ME. There was not one aspect of the presentation that I felt was lacking. Brightness, image quality, fidelity, color, SOUND were all top notch.
While there may be issues with a specific theaters settings or calibration or whatever, I simply can't understand anyone having any complaints with a properly outfitted "Imax Digital" theater.