Large Format/"Premium" Theaters (IMAX 15/70, Digital IMAX, XD, ETX, RPX, etc.)

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Decent article that, MUCH better than the ill-informed clickbait nonsense which makingstarwars put out about the IMAX version (although screencrush are wrong that the digital IMAX version won't open up; it will, just to 1.90 rather than 1.44). And while I agree with you that it's something of a pleasant surprise that there will be 15/70 versions at all, it's a damned shame that Disney would rather gobble up every cent they possibly can (like this freakin' movie isn't gonna make bank) than present the movie in the best possible IMAX quality at the most amount of capable IMAX locations.


Aye, given the paucity of the Laser system and that there are FAR more 15/70 installs all around the world, Disney just couldn't be arsed and wanted the IMAX venues to chase as much revenue for as little cost as possible, e.g. digital 3D. Thank the maker there are still IMAX venues which don't have digital!

It's only the falcon scene that opens up is it not?

[Geoff D]

Apparently so, yes. But I'd still like to be able to catch that one scene in the format it was meant to be viewed on, and my annoyance is also more about what this means for other IMAX shows coming up that used IMAX 65mm like BvS, or indeed the new large format IMAX digital camera like Cap 3.

Maybe it really is to do with Disney cheaping out on the 15/70 side of things whereas Warners may well have a wider 15/70 rollout, I dunno, but I can't see the laser installs getting ahead of 15/70 by the time March comes around for BvS.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Apparently so, yes. But I'd still like to be able to catch that one scene in the format it was meant to be viewed on, and my annoyance is also more about what this means for other IMAX shows coming up that used IMAX 65mm like BvS, or indeed the new large format IMAX digital camera like Cap 3.

Maybe it really is to do with Disney cheaping out on the 15/70 side of things whereas Warners may well have a wider 15/70 rollout, I dunno, but I can't see the laser installs getting ahead of 15/70 by the time March comes around for BvS.

As would I but funds, distance and waiting until the next date I can get in to see it means I will have to make do with HDX

[Geoff D]

I'm in the same boat re: funds and distance, I don't think I'll be able to get to Laaaandon to even see the 15/70 version I keep bleating about. But the prices for train tickets and whatnot will be much cheaper in March so they'd better bloody sort out BvS before then!

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I'm in the same boat re: funds and distance, I don't think I'll be able to get to Laaaandon to even see the 15/70 version I keep bleating about. But the prices for train tickets and whatnot will be much cheaper in March so they'd better bloody sort out BvS before then!

I get my last paycheck Friday so could, but will need to book train tickets also.
But I wonder how long it will be in the bfi for

[Geoff D]

BFI isn't 15/70 though, it's the Science Museum which will have it.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

BFI isn't 15/70 though, it's the Science Museum which will have it.

I am not so worried about the 70mm version more than seeing it in genuine IMAX and on the biggest screen.
But yes I would rather see it in the science museum

[Michael11]

The IMAX screen that I use is a LIEMAX screen. Just a regular cinema but they've made the screen bigger and the sound louder.

I don't see a difference in 2D IMAX and 2D Regular. But I do see a difference between 3D IMAX and 3D Regular.

For example, I saw Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation in both IMAX 2D and Regular 2D and there was no discernible difference in picture quality.

The sound however was much better in the IMAX screening.

So should I only go to see IMAX screenings if IMAX cameras were used to make the film?

[xbs2034]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

I am not so worried about the 70mm version more than seeing it in genuine IMAX and on the biggest screen.
But yes I would rather see it in the science museum

Though it won't be a "genuine" IMAX format, but rather cropped to 1.9 for the IMAX scenes. Nor would it fill the screen, any laser location (I think the two in the UK are Empire Leicester Square and Cineworld Sheffield) will have a bigger image size, probably the science museum as well as a 15/70.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by xbs2034

Though it won't be a "genuine" IMAX format, but rather cropped to 1.9 for the IMAX scenes. Nor would it fill the screen, any laser location (I think the two in the UK are Empire Leicester Square and Cineworld Sheffield) will have a bigger image size, probably the science museum as well as a 15/70.

The bfi are cropping now? Since when did this happen?

[xbs2034]

Originally Posted by Michael11

The IMAX screen that I use is a LIEMAX screen. Just a regular cinema but they've made the screen bigger and the sound louder.

I don't see a difference in 2D IMAX and 2D Regular. But I do see a difference between 3D IMAX and 3D Regular.

For example, I saw Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation in both IMAX 2D and Regular 2D and there was no discernible difference in picture quality.

The sound however was much better in the IMAX screening.

So should I only go to see IMAX screenings if IMAX cameras were used to make the film?

Some will say that, but personally I felt movies like Avatar, Prometheus, and Skyfall were pretty amazing IMAX experiences even without using any IMAX cameras.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by xbs2034

Some will say that, but personally I felt movies like Avatar, Prometheus, and Skyfall were pretty amazing IMAX experiences even without using any IMAX cameras.

Not sure I could stomach 1080p on an IMAX screen

[xbs2034]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

The bfi are cropping now? Since when did this happen?

Any previously 15/70 location which has converted to digital will play it in the 1.9 digital IMAX aspect ratio.

Plus, I imagine with a screen of that size (I'm from the U.S. so never been there, but my understanding is that is one of the bigger IMAX screens) the digital projectors can't fill it on the sides either, so the film will be windowboxed- you can see Spectre there to confirm if that's how their digital IMAX set-up is.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by xbs2034

Any previously 15/70 location which has converted to digital will play it in the 1.9 digital IMAX aspect ratio.

Plus, I imagine with a screen of that size (I'm from the U.S. so never been there, but my understanding is that is one of the bigger IMAX screens) the digital projectors can't fill it on the sides either, so the film will be windowboxed- you can see Spectre there to confirm if that's how their digital IMAX set-up is.

Ugh if true I am sticking to my "local" Xplus screen then.
If I can't get I to the science museum that is

[Geoff D]

mike, they've had the digital projectors in the BFI for a while now. If you saw something 'IMAX' branded there that was not 15/70 then it was 2K digital.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

mike, they've had the digital projectors in the BFI for a while now. If you saw something 'IMAX' branded there that was not 15/70 then it was 2K digital.

Last I saw was guardians and it filled the screen

[Geoff D]

That would've been 2K @ 1.90 for the embiggened scenes, I'm sure it seemed like it filled the screen but people said the same thing about Avatar which was actually 1.78. I've done it myself, I thought STID's 15/70 version filled the screen but it was apparently 1.66.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

That would've been 2K @ 1.90 for the embiggened scenes, I'm sure it seemed like it filled the screen but people said the same thing about Avatar which was actually 1.78. I've done it myself, I thought STID's 15/70 version filled the screen but it was apparently 1.66.

Huh weird, so I would not notice anything then if I saw it at the bfi?
It's mostly a digital scene anyway

[Geoff D]

If you enjoyed what you saw of Guardians then there's no reason why you'd think any less of Force Awakens then, it will still enlarge at the appropriate moments.

And yes, I know most of the scene is VFX but the way you repeating it is like having jscoggins back full time.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

If you enjoyed what you saw of Guardians then there's no reason why you'd think any less of Force Awakens then, it will still enlarge at the appropriate moments.

And yes, I know most of the scene is VFX but the way you repeating it is like having jscoggins back full time.

I am stuck in a loop, I have seen enough 70mm to not make it a curio anymore and you lose the 3d with that version also