Star Wars AOTC only showing at 19 theaters digitally

[Aves]

Here is the list of every theater in the world that present films digitally using TI's DLP Technology.


link


There may be others that don't use the TI DLP technology that aren't on the list. The article only seems to focus on the U.S. Theaters and it doesn't even include all of those. Centrury Orleans 18 in Las Vegas, Nevada is missing from the list.

 

[Supermercado]

That's a shame that most of us won't be able to see it digitally. I guess it will make for a really nice video transfer on the DVD when that comes out since it's already digital.

 

[MisterM]

Thanks for the link, aves2k.

AUSTRIA
UCI KINOWELT Millennium City
1200 Wien


Yes! About 10 minutes from where my parents live. I know where I'm going to see it now.

 

[neomits]

<< Showcase Cinemas Springdale Springdale, Ohio >>




WOOOOO Hell yeah baby

 

[SSP]

<<

<< Whats up with all these I dont care posts? If you dont care, then dont thread crap!

Anyway, I'm one of unlucky people not having a digital theatre near me. I hope it looks as good as the Digital once!
>>


What are you talking about? Your profile says Toronto, right?

Famous Players Paramount
259 Richmond St. West.
Toronto, Ontario M5V3M6
Canada
Tel: 416-368-5600

More complete list of DLP cinemas, straight from the horses mouth

one I'll be going to is:

Galaxy Theatres at Conestoga Mall
550 King St., North, Waterloo
Ontario, N2L 5W6
Canada
Tel: 519 883 8843 >>



w00t!!!!!! Thnaks kami! I thought that list included Canada as well. So thats why I assumed there were none in TO.

 

[InverseOfNeo]

Sweet, I live like 10 minutes away from the Irvine Spectrum Megaplex in Irvine, CA. But I will probably hold off for about a month or so to see it. I remember wtih Ep 1 I went to see it at midnight on the opening day, it was pretty cool.

 

[Ameesh]

<< am i the only geek who couldn't care less about Starwars stuff? >>




you are not a geek.

 

[Ameesh]

<< What? No Oregon stations? Ack...

nik >>



no washington either

 

[Krugger]

for everyone that says that the digital version will suck... how would you know? my brother saw Ep 1 in the limited digital run they had at only 4 theaters, and said it was superb quality and much better than the regular version. i think some of it will be personal preference but i can't imagine it's going to suck digitally, since that's how Lucas is doing things now.
-----Krugger

 

[joohang]

Nice!

I didn't know that Richmond Famous Players was the only one with digital. I expected the new Langley Colossus one to have it, but I guess not.

Closer to me, so I don't complain.

 

[EvilYoda]

doh, all the nice multiplexes around here in the suburbs of Detroit, and no digital Star Wars?

Oh well, I'll still be catching the midnight showing with my friends, along with about......3 or 4 other times throughout the day.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

<<

<< What? No Oregon stations? Ack...

nik >>



>>

Hey Ross... ROAD TRIP!!!!

nik

 

[Aquaman]

<< Nice!

I didn't know that Richmond Famous Players was the only one with digital. I expected the new Langley Colossus one to have it, but I guess not.

Closer to me, so I don't complain. >>



WOO HOO......... I am so there

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Thegonagle]

Seeing how film is an analog medium, the resolution of film is theoretically infinite. Film still looks great to me, so I don't give a flying flip.

How do these digital film projectors work anyway? It sounds interesting, anyone got a good link?

I'd think the resolution of a digital movie theater image would need to be incredibly high (5-10 X higher than HDTV) to look better than film when blown up to movie theater screen proportions.

 

[LethalWolfe]

<< Seeing how film is an analog medium, the resolution of film is theoretically infinite. Film still looks great to me, so I don't give a flying flip.

How do these digital film projectors work anyway? It sounds interesting, anyone got a good link?

I'd think the resolution of a digital movie theater image would need to be incredibly high (5-10 X higher than HDTV) to look better than film when blown up to movie theater screen proportions. >>



Making a high enough res digital image isn't an issue (look at Toy Story, Monsters Inc, or Final Fantasy). Getting the theaters to buy the new tech is the issue. And, as Pulse8 pointed out, getting people to drop the "film is good, video is cheap" perception is important. But when film when from silent to talkie, and black and white to color some diehard filmmakers kept saying that sound and color (respectively) would "cheapen" the film experience.


Lethal

 

[isildur]

<shrug>

I saw EP1 digital - looked pretty sweet.

its just a matter of time - there are just too many logistical and longterm financial advantages for it not to happen.

 

[Nefrodite]

<< We are so used to the "film look" that even things that "better" (in regards to picture quality) look worse (we find less pleaseing to look at). >>

money.

well films very versatile, there are many film looks if you look at cheap indi films filmed using cheap dv, its also a different look. a rather cr@ppy one really.



Making a high enough res digital image isn't an issue (look at Toy Story, Monsters Inc, or Final Fantasy). Getting the theaters to buy the new tech is the issue. And, as Pulse8 pointed out, getting people to drop the "film is good, video is cheap" perception is important. But when film when from silent to talkie, and black and white to color some diehard filmmakers kept saying that sound and color (respectively) would "cheapen" the film experience.



well the difference there is rendering images in super high resolution(i think they use something like 8000xXXXX atleast. no digital projector gets even close. and asking theaters to invest in technology that is both expensive and immature is a tad silly. just look at digital cameras. new sensors(foveon) are just around the corner that will dramatically increase quality. perhaps that tech will also help digital filming. and breakthroughs for projection are probably still coming.

as for film resolution, it is very high. i'm not sureabout an exact number, but i've read that 35mm film for cameras can be equivalent as high as 15mega pixels. thats for still cameras though. optimally we would upgrade theaters once digital projection clearly becomes vastly superior in resolution and every other aspect. you need that ability to fake out film grain and everything anyways plus, i don't want my ticket price hiked to save the corporations a little money. as i said b4 there are other film technologies out there too, with even higher resolution..

 

[MaxDSP]

AMC South Barrington 30 South Barrington, Illinois ....only 40 minutes away from me



I really dont care much about EP1 but the quality of the picture is pretty damn sweet. I saw "Mission to Mars" when it came out at the above mentioned theater. I had no idea that the theater number I was in used a digital projection system, but I did notice that the movie looked extremely clear and crisp, but didnt know why. I was like inspecting the picture quality and losing track of the movie (which wasnt that great BTW) So now I know why...

BTW, for those in Illinois, I think it's theater 17 that has the DP, in the main section

 

[LethalWolfe]

<< << We are so used to the "film look" that even things that "better" (in regards to picture quality) look worse (we find less pleaseing to look at). >>

money.

well films very versatile, there are many film looks if you look at cheap indi films filmed using cheap dv, its also a different look. a rather cr@ppy one really. >>




By "film look" I literally meant how film, as a medium, looks. I didn't mean film as in "movie." Film and video just look different. Film handles blacks better, and gives things a softer look. Video gives things a much crisper/shaper edge (some would say harsh) and things usually seem flatter on video (less depth of field). As for indie filmmakers shooting w/ "cheap dv" (which BTW is about 4-5 times the resolution of DVD) it's not about the equipment, it's how it's used. You can produce crappy work on film as easily as you can on video. And the "standard" differences between film and video (like the ones I just mentioned) are rapidly disappearing as digital video is enabling that medium to achieve things no one would have thought possible 10yrs ago.


Lethal

 

[Rob9874]

I didn't take the time to read the rest of this whole thread to see if this was posted yet, but this is interesting news:

theforce.net

"Make sure you see the movie digitally. Why? Rumor here is that there is at least one different additional scene in the digital version, one that will be absent from the traditional print. We have no idea what that scene or potentially others may be, yet."

"As of three days ago, George was still tinkering with Episode II. That's right, at an ILM soundstage just last week they were shooting a new scene for the movie. No word on what scene it may be, though we would expect this to be the new scene for the digital prints, but again we have no idea what it is just yet. He also mentioned in his welcoming video that the film was done except for some tinkering, which Rick confirmed had to be done by this Wednesday."

 

[arod]

<< << We are so used to the "film look" that even things that "better" (in regards to picture quality) look worse (we find less pleaseing to look at). >>

money.

well films very versatile, there are many film looks if you look at cheap indi films filmed using cheap dv, its also a different look. a rather cr@ppy one really.



Making a high enough res digital image isn't an issue (look at Toy Story, Monsters Inc, or Final Fantasy). Getting the theaters to buy the new tech is the issue. And, as Pulse8 pointed out, getting people to drop the "film is good, video is cheap" perception is important. But when film when from silent to talkie, and black and white to color some diehard filmmakers kept saying that sound and color (respectively) would "cheapen" the film experience.



well the difference there is rendering images in super high resolution(i think they use something like 8000xXXXX atleast. no digital projector gets even close. and asking theaters to invest in technology that is both expensive and immature is a tad silly. just look at digital cameras. new sensors(foveon) are just around the corner that will dramatically increase quality. perhaps that tech will also help digital filming. and breakthroughs for projection are probably still coming.

as for film resolution, it is very high. i'm not sureabout an exact number, but i've read that 35mm film for cameras can be equivalent as high as 15mega pixels. thats for still cameras though. optimally we would upgrade theaters once digital projection clearly becomes vastly superior in resolution and every other aspect. you need that ability to fake out film grain and everything anyways plus, i don't want my ticket price hiked to save the corporations a little money. as i said b4 there are other film technologies out there too, with even higher resolution.. >>



Theres ALWAYS something better coming..... And DLP is the wave of the future and so id HDTV. I would thienk "thecnically" advanced people such as ourselves would welcome new and better technology but it seems that people are content living in the analog spectrum. Well Im not, I have a HDTV and watch all the movies in DLP that I can. The only reason things arent progressing faster is the dumbasses that think what we have now is good enough. Id like to see you make that same argument in the CPU wars. Would you be satisified with the computing power we have now??? Hell no I want faster and better and eventually cheaper.... The technology will come around and eventually become cheaper but if we keep at the current atitude toward the digital spectrum we never will see new technology. That said I saw spiderman this afternoon in the theaters, and let me say this the quality sucked balls... It was blurry and the colors wern't there, and dont tell me it was my theater, its the analog crap. Ive been watching HDTV for about 6 months so everything looks blurry and has washed out colors. Its a shame that most of you are missing out.

 

[MadRat]

<<The only reason things arent progressing faster is the dumbasses that think what we have now is good enough>>

The only dumbass is the one who went out and bought obsolete HDTV technology.

 

[d1abolic]

Nice, the Famous Players Paramount in Toronto is just a 15-minute drive from my house.

 

[freegeeks]

thx for the link --
I work in brussels so I know what to do after work

BELGIUM

Kinepolis Brussels
Eeuwfestlaan 1/Bd. Du Centenaire 1
Brussel 1020/Bruxelles 1020
Belgium
Tel: +32 (02)474 26 00
http://www.kinepolis.be

 

[Muadib]

Edgewater Multiplex Cinemas Edgewater, New Jersey
YES!!! I'll see it there the second time around though as it's about 40 minutes away.