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Author Topic: What happened to the color? Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-13-2004 09:28 AM                     Could someone, say hypothetically, purchase the said crated equipment from Technicolor and set up their own lab? All patent issues on the process aside... With the right marketing and promotion, this could be the next big force to get people to drive many miles to "the better theater" since stadium seating. You just can't get color and picture quality like that on DVD (even if you turn the "color" on your tv all the way up) and to hell with DLP even coming close. I know, I know, it's all a lost cause. It has about as much of a chance of coming back as movie palaces, 70mm and curtains. Because as Jeff pointed out, the ones with the money and the power and who are in a position to do something about it are too comfortable in their ignorance. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-13-2004 09:43 AM                     Probably many of the patents have actually expired. Of interest was an article I read a few years ago about the experiments to use a DIAZO soundtrack (cyan) to save the cost of buying a bw reciever stock and then stripping all but the sound track area. Now that red readers are the norm that opion probably would have been practical and reduced one step and cost f te process  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-13-2004 12:17 PM                        In fifty years, I'm sure that someone will be very happy to find a print of Meet the Deedles with perfect color, while all the prints of Lord of the Rings have faded to that weird Fuji blue/purple state. [ 05-14-2004, 08:35 AM: Message edited by: Scott Norwood ]  |  IP: Logged Jeff Joseph Expert Film Handler Posts: 131 From: Palmdale, CA, USA Registered: Jun 2000 posted 05-14-2004 02:39 AM                        Actually, I had heard that Technicolor was trying to GIVE AWAY the equipment to a non profit...no takers. And if you think about it, the reason is clear. Unless you have a lab to back you up, you can't do this. You need, just to start, dyes, special matrix stock, special receiver stock, processing for matrix's, people who know how to do all this stuff, environmentally sound ways to dump the chemicals and so on... you can't just "print" a movie... it's all the other stuff to get to that point. As to the patents: Yes, the original patents have long since expired...but Technicolor took out numerous new patents in the 1990s. Jeff  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-14-2004 08:59 PM                     I'll take it. Who do I call? =TMP=  |  IP: Logged

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