The Movie New Technologies

Three D (3D), with glasses funny, is not new. Surround sound has been around for too long. For those of you my age, remember the curve "Cinemascope" screens? All these improvements have been made to increase our sense of the cinema of "being there" when you watch a movie or a theater. But they were all missing something .... something, I'm happy to say is that now a theater near you are coming from. Digital cinema, in my opinion, is the only major development in the field for decades. The reasons are obvious.

• You can now have the equivalent of high-definition television images on a screen the size of a house.

• No longer have to watch a movie faded looking for third-generation print that comes complete with scratches, burns and wheat.

· The picture is stable as a rock, since no film sprockets by pulling the registration pins as in a traditional projector.

• Since the> Film is on a hard drive instead of large reels of film, the presentation is not limited to the nervous 24 frames per second. Smooth pans are now possible, because in the digital domain, the algorithms can be used to correct these artifacts.

• No more pops and clicks. Sound back to a fully digital source.

What really motivated me to write, that was my recent viewing of Avatar ®. The story did not sit on my seatTheatre. E 'was interesting, but not the most interesting film I've ever seen. As a contractor for a company that makes digital cinema projectors here in Ontario (and all including my local theater), I was very curious to see what the digital projection with 3D technology could match.

E 'was immediately clear that the same effect can be produced with 3-D film. The timing was definitely the right thing for Cameron to this epic version. Art isto work. Any artifacts I found a small, short and probably not detectable by the general population. It 'been a perfect, perfect from corner to corner. I also found myself contractions to dodge a bullet that flies off the screen and zoom right rail of my head!

So what's next for the experience of theater? In my humble opinion, the quality and resolution of the visual presentation now on the boundaries of what we are able to recognize people. So maybe the wrap-around screenComeback or holograms. How about the stimulation of other senses such as touch and smell?

And as for the theater at home? If the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is an accurate indicator 3D HDTV is coming soon to a living room near you. Remember. Not only is it necessary to find the remote on the couch, but maybe your 3D glasses, too.