Digital Cinema

alexthecheese · 12 Jun 2007 at 10:42

Ho.

Our local Odeon has just set up a digital cinema which is quite interesting, supposedly much better quality picture and sound all round. No more blotches, scratches or cigarette burns I'm guessing.

Has anybody else checked out a digitally projected film at the cinema? I was reading about it on the wiki and they're distributed by hard drive. Pretty nifty!

Scam · 12 Jun 2007 at 14:21

Whats your local Odeon? Surrey? I wrote my dissertation last year on DC and it's good to see it actually happening, finally. When i went and saw PoTC2 on the Thursday it came out, it'd had been so long since i'd seen a first-run of a film that i was quite impressed with the clarity etc. of it. In fact i was sitting there wondering if they had installed a digital system. If all cinemas were digital we'd have that all the time.

Having said that i still havent seen a film digitally projected

Guybrush · 12 Jun 2007 at 14:48

Odeon in Surrey Quays and Hatfield (the one I used to work at) are the first digiplex cinemas in Europe.

The picture quality is astonishing. Like the difference between VHS and DVD. If you saw a film in digital you'd know it!

Wzd · 14 Jun 2007 at 16:53

I saw Spiderman 3 at the Surrey Quays Odeon in Digital and the picture quality was great!! The difference once the ad's and trailers had finished was really noticable...it was like someone had switched the projector from blury to sharp!

Shame the movie wasn't as equally impressive, haha!

PikeyPriest · 14 Jun 2007 at 17:16

Yea, Surrey Quays odeon is my local one and the picture quality is excellent compared to before. It really is suprising the first time you see films like this with no flickery lines, blotches..etc

TheMagicPirate · 15 Jun 2007 at 00:29

I recently saw '300' in 35mm, DLP and IMAX and have to say DLP looking beautiful, even a film like 300 with its grainy effect looked great.

I'm hoping we (Odeon MetroCentre) get a couple of digital screens when we move. Odeon are already trialing an 'all digital' cinema down south somewhere.

Alex_L · 15 Jun 2007 at 00:46

I saw Spiderman 3 at the Surrey Quays odeon in digital, I thought that the opening titles of spiderman at the start looked very bright and had a '3d' quality to the image, but as the film went on I found the majority of the live action looked quite flat, and the colours looked a bit washed out. It did still look better than the majority of non-digital cinema showings I've seen though as there was no flicker, blotches or lines across the picture.