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The Dark Knight Puts IMAX In The Spotlight

Started by Mike Olbinski · 11 months ago

Despite the fact that IMAX is a forty year old company, they have been but a minor player on the film exhibition market.  The Toronto based company operates only 160 screens in North America, many of those being in institutional venues considered inadequate to meet the needs of commercial releases.  They were only able to come up with 94 screens ... Continue reading »

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  • Cap'n Schwartz

    11 months ago

    IMAX is cool but.... nobody ever talks about OmniMAX. its a 180 degree dome, you sit at a 45 degree and are surrounded entirely by the screen viewon all sides of you. Its at the San Diego Space Museum and its AWESOME!!!
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  • Mike Olbinski

    11 months ago

    I'm here in San Diego, I'll go check it out...screw the Lost live blog!
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  • Cap'n Schwartz

    11 months ago

    You should, Rueben H Fleet space museum....its in Balboa park right next to the zoo... I looked for you on G4 TV's 3 hour coverage of Comic-con I didnt see ya there...
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  • The Kid and I

    11 months ago

    Instead of Where's Waldo? it's Where's MO?
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  • daddyjason

    11 months ago

    Please, Cap'n. The public can only get used to one MAX at a time. They made the obvious choice and went with the I instead of the longer and harder to write OMNI. Clearly IMAX was the better choice.
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  • Cap'n Schwartz

    11 months ago

    I dunno... the public has had max for a while... MAX-imum strength asprin, give me the MAX-imum allowable dosage a human can take beofre it kills me.... in the 80's we survived 'to the MAX'...... Omni just seems right around the corner =)
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  • Mike Olbinski

    11 months ago

    Nice article Jason...cool images.

    But someone told me that IMAX 3D can be done WITHOUT glasses these days...which would make 3D much more appealing to me.
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  • Cap'n Schwartz

    11 months ago

    It cant. They are like Kodak glasses like at the Disneyland ride. There is a flashing indicator on the screen that 3d is going to happen and you put on the glasses instead of watch a 2 hour movie with them on...
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  • daddyjason

    11 months ago

    Yeah, this is what I've head too. I don't think we're quite to the 3D movie without glasses yet unless you count the films at the planetarium (which are actually pretty cool these days).
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  • Grant Vuille

    10 months ago

    I live in Woodbridge, VA, which is 30 minutes south of Washington D.C. and the AMC @ Potomac Mills has the new digital 2K IMAX 2D & 3D projection system in auditorium #9.

    I was impressed with IMAX digital 3D, wearing he IMAX 3D polarized glasses watching "Space 3D" and the 2D movie "Kung Fu Panda" in cropped to 2.40:1 wide IMAX digital. Both were very impressive as was the sound, which you could actually feel as it rushes past you.

    2K is not supposed to be as good as 4K projection, as 4K is four times sharper, resolution wise, but the digital IMAX 2K looked awesome....

    I also saw Real D's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in 2K 3D at the same AMC theatre. It was on a 1.85:1 screen which didn't quite touch the walls and definately not the floors and ceiling like the IMAX digital projection screen does which has the aspect ratio of 1.9:1. Real D digital 2K was also awesome--so IMAX is going to have very stiff competition with their new Digital IMAX system.

    But, all-in-all, I think from what I've seen of digital presentations, digital cinema will soon be replacing film. That makes me sad as I love film and am fascinated with photography and cinematography, and as an archival medium, film will probably always be around, so what-me-worry, it's not such a big deal after all....

    By the way--I want to see a digital presentation in IMAX of "Gone With The Wind" for the 2009 70th anniversary of the film. It's original 3-strip camera negatives are preserved in 4K resolution, so a digital IMAX presentation would be very apt indeed.

    Grant Vuille
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