Digital Cinema Experience--Hooray!

Yesterday I saw Disney's Digital CGI film, The Wild, at a theatre equipped with the Texas Instrument's DLP Cinema® projection system, and I'm telling you there's nothing like it. You can watch a video about how it works and why it basically tears it up when it compares to transferring a digitally produced film to celluloid and projected it old-school style. Come on, 35 trillion colors perfectly reproduced...none of those projectionist-time-to-change-the-reel splotches, crystal clear images, no flicker, characters that look as close to 3-D as you can get without wearing ridiculous-looking glasses. Digital sound, digital picture, digital projection, form a potent trio that move the movie-going experience to the next logical evolution. Not to mention, of course, the incredible environmental savings--no more celluloid film being manufactured and developed and shipped all over the world. Instead, the theatres can download the films via sattelight or fiber optics to their huge servers to store the films and project on demand. Hey, I a purist as much as the next guy. I don't want to see Alfred Hitchcock films in color. But, why not let the future directors use the technology available to make the best-looking movies they can make. I bet you, if they want to, they can digitally add in those splotches and make the film look like it is flickering a bit, and even add some dust and hair fibers or screen-length streaks if it will make you feel better. I cannot imagine why you'd want that, but if it's a deal breaker, then I say go for it.

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