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Author Topic: Regal Continental Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-01-2009 09:55 PM                        I have two 60+ foot screens at my theatre. We don't advertise it. I think it's become a sad day when the screens have gotten so much smaller EVERYWHERE - that screen size is talked about this much. I have seen several LIMAX locations that have smaller screens than my two big auditoriums..... Weird....  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-05-2009 11:02 PM                        I saw Zombieland at the Regal Continental tonight. Movie was in scope. Picture still very dim and looked very washed out (ie: next to no contrast) despite having a brand new bulb. How do I know that they have a brand new bulb? Because during the midnight show of Zombieland last Thursday, the bulb went out and they had to move everyone to a smaller auditorium since they could not fix it. So even at it's best, in scope with a brand new bulb it is still very dim and washed out. Looking at it during the movie, I couldn't help but think that perhaps the Harkins screen IS a touch bigger? Harkin's screen doesn't curve, so it may be smaller in overall square feet, but I think the Harkins might have a bigger actual image. Hard to say. The sound is even worse now after the stadium remodel. It sounds nearly as bad as all other Regal theaters in the Denver metro area despite still having the JBL speakers. Amazingly, the print wasn't scratched. Well, the first trailer (Shutter Island) was and all of the trailers were very dirty, but the movie was OK. I think it was too dim to really see any scratches or dirt. Preshow played ONLY through the right channel speaker, but nobody cares about the preshow. The movie itself must have been played in SDDS or DTS since the sound did not drop out when the cues passed (the Continental places their cues right on top of the Dolby Digital code and it will cut out on a Dolby or BACP reader, I've gotten many prints from them). It saddens me that out of the Cooper and Century 21 theaters, the friggin' Continental was the one that survived when it has always been the least impressive of the three in every category. Oh well.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-05-2009 11:54 PM                     Would those be the CE or the FM350 cue readers? -Monte  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-06-2009 12:30 AM                        FM350 with everything set to "outboard".  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-06-2009 01:12 AM                     lol..tell them REG booth monkeys to make a strip of tin about two sprockets long. This way, the digital won't drop out being less than a frame in length and the 350's will still pick it up. Or, they can fold the tape over the edge edgewise covering only one sprockethole and then take the splicer to punch out the tape.. ..dang ... - Monte  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-06-2009 01:18 AM                        What they do is to put it on the edge and let it seep into the Dolby Digital, maybe 2 frames long. Then they splice over it with a piece of clear tape. The way I do it is to put a piece of tape about two sprockets long and fold it over the edge, missing the Dolby Digital code. Then I do the clear tape thingy and that cuts off the folded over portion when the splicer cuts it. SR-D never cuts out. I was planning on changing everything to inboard, but never got the chance as it would conflict with our 2 Christie automations.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-06-2009 04:45 AM                     quote: Joe Redifer FM350 with everything set to "outboard". Ugh! Hello D-cinema.  |  IP: Logged Geoff Jones Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 579 From: Broomfield, CO, USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 10-06-2009 08:31 AM                        Where did you sit, Joe? I saw it Sat PM. I didn't feel like it was dim (nor exceptionally bright), but I did notice the washed-out-ness. I was wondering if that was due to the digital videography. I thought the sound was great. But I sat way down close on about the 5th or 6th row. (and I'm also not a trained professional.) I noticed the right channel on the pre-show also. I give 'em extra points for that!  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 10-06-2009 01:09 PM                     If their DCN equipment is similar to what I work with, it sounds like their P2 card's connection has a loose left phono plug...or RCA plug...whatever the old-style inputs are called.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-06-2009 03:38 PM                        I sat in the middle of the auditorium, we did not climb the stadium part.  |  IP: Logged

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