To: Michael who wrote (34061 ) 7/6/1999 12:49:00 AM From: Clarksterh Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Cinecomm and The Phantom Menace . A post from the yahoo board that I was asked to pass along, and is pretty good:I thought that you might want to pass along some facts and opinions of the CineComm digital Star Wars movie. I just saw it about 20 minutes ago at the Paramus, NJ theater... At the start of the movie, a representative of CineComm talked for about 4-5 minutes about the technology and at the same time, the 41'x17' screen was illuminated with the CineComm logo and nice sized logo's of Hughes-JVC in the lower left corner and Qualcomm in the lower right corner. He talked about future movies being sent via satellite and the fact that this technology provides a much closer representation of what the director actually through the camera lens during filming. He said the digital technology is a second generation of the original, while the standard 35mm film is about 6 generations of copied celluloid. The presentation itself was stunning. The difference in brightness, clarity, crispness, and color is just incredible. Not a single glitch, scratch or blip anywhere. The detail is so precise that you could see the individual pores of the actor's skin without too much of a closeup shot (head and shoulders). At the end, everyone applauded, and I got a feeling they were mostly there to see the technology. As we ushered out, the projector room was open for a tour....The unit itself is about the size of a washer/dryer stacked on top of each other, color: black. Next to it was a rack of computer equipment, monitors, and a single mouse.
