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Imax fans try out enhanced theater experiences at North American theaters
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moviebuff82
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June 12, 2009 at 9:45 am
To compete with Imax, some cinema chains are rolling out their own large-format options.
The steady stream of Hollywood films flowing through Imax theaters, combined with the development of a digital projection system, have resulted in a dramatic expansion of Imax’s commercial theater network in the last year. With many of the best locations off-limits due to exclusivity agreements between Imax and customers, some cinema chains have come up with their own large-format-style auditoriums.
Read more in the Wall Street Journal(reg rqr’d).
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Cinemark XD (Extreme Digital Cinema, formerly XD3):
http://www.cinemark.com/XD.asp
Cinemark Press Release
We already have an extreme digital experience here in Toronto at one of the downtown AMC auditoriums. It too has a huge floor to ceiling screen, super-duper sound and very high resolution digital projection that bests the new Imax digital format. AMC calls their experiment: ETX (Enhanced Theater Experience). Looks to me like the Imax corporation goofed big-time. Couldn’t they figure out that any cinema chain with some smarts could easily duplicate, or top their mini-Imax digital installations? It’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out.
5 TO 10 YEARS NO MORE IMAX….JMOP
Without knowing the facts, it sounds like a disaster in the making. Just saying…..
The Wehrenberg chain installed the Mega Screen at some of their theatres. One of these claims to be the biggest screen in the Midwest.
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