the reason I ask is that I find it odd that both the Seattle and Uptown screen feature Christie DLP digital projector systems yet one of the two (the latter) is having problems both in it’s screen size and required brightness for projected 3D imagery.
from what I got from asking the knowledgable staff member at the Uptown:
first of all it isn’t a Sony 4K system … thank god.
1) it’s a new Christie 3D2P (DLP) (dual projector) system – some kinks are being worked on, specifially the second projector is not properly displaying the highest luminence/brightness and is also resulting in a slight fish eye image/display, the upper left, lower left, lower right of the screen are curved, but not in the right direction (as JodarMovieFan noted). Once this is corrected, AMC is full recognition of this flaw, and is fixing it, the image will be much brighter and will fit the screen properly. (fingers crossed)
2) it’s a new silver screen
3) no new speakers, but more ampage was added to compensate the audio dynamic range of digital projection’s lossless sound.
4) the 35mm/70mm projector is officially history (i.e, uninstalled)
interestingly, the beginning (and end) of ‘Tron Legacy’ is 2D and I watched them withouth the glasses – once again, and as I have noted before the tinting of the glasses ads unnecessary darkness
question: the new digital projector is properly displayed on the curved screen … right?? The Uptown here in DC just upgraded to digital projection and they are having a slight problem with the projected image in relationship to the curvature of the screen – it sounds like both the Seattle Cinerama and the Arclight Dome don’t have this problem, I wonder what the deal is why this problamatic with the Uptown’s large curved screen.
yeah, I’m eyeing that Thursday midnight show too. As for the sitting not too close, that’s the fun of the Uptown, I know when I was a kid it was blast sitting in the front row, the swoop into the trench of the Death Star in ‘Star Wars’ – weeeeeee, however being older it’s not as fun as say ‘Cloverfield’ with it’s shakey cam which made me want to hurl.
Of the one time I was up at King of Prussia IMAX – the screen size didn’t wow me, although the movie ‘Final Destination 3’ was an utter blast on the large screen: blood, gore, dead teenagers – woohoo!, I’d sooner go west and see an IMAX movie over at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg – which will be showing ‘Tron Legacy’ in 3D and 15/70mm (IMAX)
unfortunately JodarMovieFan, Tron Legacy is not opening at any of the three Smithsonian IMAX screens :( they will more than likely show it later in it’s run since Toy Story 3 is playing at Air & Space, and Harry Potter 7 is due shortly over at Natural History.
So I assume the silver screen will not only produce the 3D imagery properly, but also help the colors and brightness have more ‘pop’ – I’m just worried that the Sony system doesn’t hinder either of these on the Uptown’s screen, I know that over at the Cinemark, they boost the light output higher for the 3D engagements, at the time National Amusements were none to pleased when I hadn’t told them about the poor 3D engagement of ‘Bolt’ over at their Fairfax 14 screens – the darkness was the sole problem – they solved the screen AND the light adjustments after I had brought it up. So… to sum all these issues up, I’m really curious to know what AMC has exactly done in converting the Uptown to 3D Sony LCoS Digital projection.
I would assume since AMC has favoured Sony 4K I don’t think it’d be anything less… of course if AMC wasn’t wedded to Sony, the Christie and Barco (4K DLP) systems are more ideal for ultra large 75+feet screens (i.e, Seattle’s Cinerama with the first commercial installation of Christie’s Solaria 4K DLP projector) – even though AMC had initially planned to ETX the Uptown’s screen, which would have made the ticket price even higher, under that scenario they might have put BACK some of the speakers, (an extra subwoofer and two heights speakers behind the screen
actually, Rave Fairfax 14 was the first all digital cineplex, then the Centreville 12 theatres, the Egyptian was the third, but in all fairness, the AFI Silver really was the first since DLP systems were on all three screens from day one.
interesting on your comment on the bass, I thought the bass for ‘How to the Train Your Dragon’ (XD) and ‘Avatar’ (XD) was damn impressive, and better than AMC’s Mazza’s theatre’s THX auditorium.
any word if the print will get circulated around the US to theatres that can feature 70mm ??? (oh please, an East Coast date and theatre cough AFI Silver)
‘Megamind’ (3D) on the IMAX digital screen looked great! the sound though and I’m blaming the soundmix, not the actual soundsystem, seemed way to quiet at times – I know it’s up to the sound design team of the film to determine how sound is to implemented and recreated in the final theatrical mix, but for an action superhero film of this type – it wasn’t that aggressive – would have loved to have heard the 7.1 discrete mix (oh well)
three new 3D digital projector were installed recently, auditoriums: 2, 4 and 10 (hooray! 10 being the largest screen here). Unfortunately none of the sound systems were upgraded to playback discrete 7.1 [sad face] – now let’s see if Regal fixed those gosh darn ‘exit’ signs.
Screen 8 (another one of the largest auditoriums/screens) got the digital conversion (‘Unstoppable’ is currently playing) – unfortunately the framing is off, it’s as if the projector wasn’t pulled all the way back, the 2.35 image was framed by black borders all around. Screen 8 also features a great soundsystem, The Ed Norton ‘Hulk’ was downright amazing and assaultive, tight bass and clean clear sound. ‘Unstoppable’ soundmix was equally as impressive! Management stated that screen #2 is also digital projection and that all the DP screens feature 7.1 sound.
what’s interesting is that if you were to make an online purchase for a ticket for the IMAX (film) presentation at Udvar Hazy – it’s actually a dollar more. At AMC Tysons it’s $16.50/pre-noon: $11.00
but I’m going old school and see it on the Uptown screen for $6 (pre-noon price)
Warner’s is REALLY pushing the new Harry Potter film (Deathly Hollows) not only is there a 12:01 (Friday morning) screening, but there’s also a 3:30AM (!) screening too – I’d be very surprised to know who goes to THAT screening.
that’s rather annoying the non-alignment issue was NOT resolved/fixed.
the reason I ask is that I find it odd that both the Seattle and Uptown screen feature Christie DLP digital projector systems yet one of the two (the latter) is having problems both in it’s screen size and required brightness for projected 3D imagery.
from what I got from asking the knowledgable staff member at the Uptown:
first of all it isn’t a Sony 4K system … thank god.
1) it’s a new Christie 3D2P (DLP) (dual projector) system – some kinks are being worked on, specifially the second projector is not properly displaying the highest luminence/brightness and is also resulting in a slight fish eye image/display, the upper left, lower left, lower right of the screen are curved, but not in the right direction (as JodarMovieFan noted). Once this is corrected, AMC is full recognition of this flaw, and is fixing it, the image will be much brighter and will fit the screen properly. (fingers crossed)
2) it’s a new silver screen
3) no new speakers, but more ampage was added to compensate the audio dynamic range of digital projection’s lossless sound.
4) the 35mm/70mm projector is officially history (i.e, uninstalled)
interestingly, the beginning (and end) of ‘Tron Legacy’ is 2D and I watched them withouth the glasses – once again, and as I have noted before the tinting of the glasses ads unnecessary darkness
question: the new digital projector is properly displayed on the curved screen … right?? The Uptown here in DC just upgraded to digital projection and they are having a slight problem with the projected image in relationship to the curvature of the screen – it sounds like both the Seattle Cinerama and the Arclight Dome don’t have this problem, I wonder what the deal is why this problamatic with the Uptown’s large curved screen.
yeah, I’m eyeing that Thursday midnight show too. As for the sitting not too close, that’s the fun of the Uptown, I know when I was a kid it was blast sitting in the front row, the swoop into the trench of the Death Star in ‘Star Wars’ – weeeeeee, however being older it’s not as fun as say ‘Cloverfield’ with it’s shakey cam which made me want to hurl.
Of the one time I was up at King of Prussia IMAX – the screen size didn’t wow me, although the movie ‘Final Destination 3’ was an utter blast on the large screen: blood, gore, dead teenagers – woohoo!, I’d sooner go west and see an IMAX movie over at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg – which will be showing ‘Tron Legacy’ in 3D and 15/70mm (IMAX)
unfortunately JodarMovieFan, Tron Legacy is not opening at any of the three Smithsonian IMAX screens :( they will more than likely show it later in it’s run since Toy Story 3 is playing at Air & Space, and Harry Potter 7 is due shortly over at Natural History.
So I assume the silver screen will not only produce the 3D imagery properly, but also help the colors and brightness have more ‘pop’ – I’m just worried that the Sony system doesn’t hinder either of these on the Uptown’s screen, I know that over at the Cinemark, they boost the light output higher for the 3D engagements, at the time National Amusements were none to pleased when I hadn’t told them about the poor 3D engagement of ‘Bolt’ over at their Fairfax 14 screens – the darkness was the sole problem – they solved the screen AND the light adjustments after I had brought it up. So… to sum all these issues up, I’m really curious to know what AMC has exactly done in converting the Uptown to 3D Sony LCoS Digital projection.
I would assume since AMC has favoured Sony 4K I don’t think it’d be anything less… of course if AMC wasn’t wedded to Sony, the Christie and Barco (4K DLP) systems are more ideal for ultra large 75+feet screens (i.e, Seattle’s Cinerama with the first commercial installation of Christie’s Solaria 4K DLP projector) – even though AMC had initially planned to ETX the Uptown’s screen, which would have made the ticket price even higher, under that scenario they might have put BACK some of the speakers, (an extra subwoofer and two heights speakers behind the screen
pessimistic aren’t we?
It’s official! Fandango has denoted that the Uptown will be presenting ‘Tron Legacy’ in REAL-D 3D – max ticket price of $14.75
actually, Rave Fairfax 14 was the first all digital cineplex, then the Centreville 12 theatres, the Egyptian was the third, but in all fairness, the AFI Silver really was the first since DLP systems were on all three screens from day one.
interesting on your comment on the bass, I thought the bass for ‘How to the Train Your Dragon’ (XD) and ‘Avatar’ (XD) was damn impressive, and better than AMC’s Mazza’s theatre’s THX auditorium.
well… in regards to the Uptown… a little birdie told me… oh I won’t jinx it. nevermind…
someone please post back how Harry Potter 7 looks and sounds! (please … please)
any word if the print will get circulated around the US to theatres that can feature 70mm ??? (oh please, an East Coast date and theatre cough AFI Silver)
looks like Regal is offering NO matinee reduced prices for it’s IMAX screen – that’s just flat out robbery. Guess they think we’re Manhattan NYC
oh and this time around, the glasses didn’t produce that annoying glare that I had encounted with ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’
‘Megamind’ (3D) on the IMAX digital screen looked great! the sound though and I’m blaming the soundmix, not the actual soundsystem, seemed way to quiet at times – I know it’s up to the sound design team of the film to determine how sound is to implemented and recreated in the final theatrical mix, but for an action superhero film of this type – it wasn’t that aggressive – would have loved to have heard the 7.1 discrete mix (oh well)
three new 3D digital projector were installed recently, auditoriums: 2, 4 and 10 (hooray! 10 being the largest screen here). Unfortunately none of the sound systems were upgraded to playback discrete 7.1 [sad face] – now let’s see if Regal fixed those gosh darn ‘exit’ signs.
great to hear the DP system is a Christie ‘Series 2’ projector.
Screen 8 (another one of the largest auditoriums/screens) got the digital conversion (‘Unstoppable’ is currently playing) – unfortunately the framing is off, it’s as if the projector wasn’t pulled all the way back, the 2.35 image was framed by black borders all around. Screen 8 also features a great soundsystem, The Ed Norton ‘Hulk’ was downright amazing and assaultive, tight bass and clean clear sound. ‘Unstoppable’ soundmix was equally as impressive! Management stated that screen #2 is also digital projection and that all the DP screens feature 7.1 sound.
what’s interesting is that if you were to make an online purchase for a ticket for the IMAX (film) presentation at Udvar Hazy – it’s actually a dollar more. At AMC Tysons it’s $16.50/pre-noon: $11.00
but I’m going old school and see it on the Uptown screen for $6 (pre-noon price)
I agree – $17.50 for a NON-3D IMAX presentation that’s outrageous.
actually it’s auditorium #20 that is getting the IMAX-Digital conversion that opens this week with ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1’
so I gather the theatre is reopening for the midnight showing of ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (Part 1) on the 18th.
Warner’s is REALLY pushing the new Harry Potter film (Deathly Hollows) not only is there a 12:01 (Friday morning) screening, but there’s also a 3:30AM (!) screening too – I’d be very surprised to know who goes to THAT screening.