On Wednesday 01 November 2006 12:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
And, returning a bit to "topic". I wonder if sometime in the future we will see digital cinema, kind of super-high-definition-dvd. The definition in film is tremendous, more so with the 70mm film; coupled with the brightness and size of the screen is something the digital world can not reach yet, AFAIK.
It's already here - I have seen a film projected digitally at the Leicester Square Odeon in London, and the quality was excellent. I didn't have the opportunity to do a head-to-head comparison with 70mm (!), but the visual quality of the digitally projected main feature was a great deal higher than the adverts and trailers which preceded it: in particular, contrast was higher, and flicker was non-existent. Definitely worth a look if you get the chance, but not many films are distributed digitally yet. -- Bill Gallafent.