Digital & Digital 3D Cinema.

Digital & Digital 3D Cinema.

Was talking to my Boss today and he was talking about how the new Odeon at the Metro Centre is going to be only the 3rd Odeon cinema in the country to have a fully digital projection system.

Being in to films and technology in general I thought this was quite exciting news, but even more exciting was the news that the company are thinking of installing a Digital 3D screen either at Silverlink or at Gateshead (prob more likely Gateshead).

My Boss went to a digital 3D tech demo/conference the other month where they played James Camerons Ghosts of the Abyss (a 3D documentary film about the Titanic) and he said it was literally one of the the greatest thing he's ever seen.

With Cameron shooting his next science fiction epic Avatar in digital 3D, along with the likes of Toy Story 3(D) and the original Star Wars Trilogy being converted in the next few years, it's cool to think we'll finally be able to watch all of them in 3D somewhere in the North East.

How exactly (in no great technological detail) does this work? Do you have to wear special glasses or anything?

Yeah mate you have to wear special glasses/goggles. What's advanced recently though (and is being hearalded as a real breakthrough) is the actual cameras Filmmakers will use to shoot the film. They're a new wave of digital-3D camera systems that James Cameron amoung others has helped develop.

To create an old-skool 3D effect you would need an extremely large concave screen to help create the effect, but with digital 3D a regular 35mm digital projector can be adapted fairly easily to play a 3D film, on a regular flat cinema screen.

That has the potential to make horrow films scary as fuck

hope this works like, could revolutionise cinema

Am I thinking along the right lines with the stuff in Orlando? Terminator, The Muppets, Shrek etc?

Those are cool

I saw superman in 3D at an Imax and it was nowhere near as good as terminator in orlando. They only had 4 short bits in 3d, and it just didn't feel as impressive at all - you definitely didn't get the fear like when the t1000 points his arm at you

Yeah mate, along those lines - possibly has the potential to be even better.

A cross between what you've seen in Orlando and full length a 3D IMAX film.

Would love see the Terminator 3D film like, infact i'd love to see most of the stuff over there.

It's more of a performance. it starts off in the waiting room, then into the theatre, with arnie running through the crowd etc and he 'jumps' into the screen and that's when the 3D stuff starts. there's also a good bit where he rides in or out of the screen

When I was working in Orlando we saw a 2 3D movies at the kennedy Space centre narrated by Tom hanks.
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