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Author Topic: AMC Prime vs ETX Jason McMillan Film Handler Posts: 68 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Dec 2009 posted 02-26-2015 11:36 AM                     Oh, I concur it's very unclear. They don't even seem to know how to market it at the theatre level, even. For example at WB24, they have 50 Shades in Prime right now, but clearly list Project Almanac in "ETX". Except if you try to buy tickets for Project Almanac, it's clearly in a 40 seat auditorium at regular price (not to mention they have no "etx" theatre here anyway).  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-26-2015 01:28 PM                     Dolby's web site and its theater location map is what leads me to believe that one particular Prime screen is not Atmos equipped. Normally Dolby is pretty good at getting the map updated. That Prime screen in North Dallas has been around long enough to get listed on that map if there was indeed a CP-850 in the booth.  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 02-26-2015 04:17 PM                     quote: Bobby Henderson Do you ever go to the Cinetopia theater in Overland Park? It has at least 1 or 2 "GXL" screens equipped with Dolby Atmos. The Cinetopia in Overland Park, KS has 3 "GXL" Dolby Atmos equipped auditoriums. It's a pretty nice theater, but at least for the GXL auditoriums, the stadium seating rake is nauseatingly steep and of course, no masking. In regards to the ETX vs Prime thing, the Barrywoods 24 USED to have ETX, that was then converted to Prime, but the website coding or whatever has never been updated. So they have ETX AND Prime showings online despite no longer(for 2+ years) having ETX.  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 04-15-2015 06:42 PM                     BREAKING NEWS: This coming Sunday or next, AMC Prime will no longer exist anywhere in the country. They are converting all of them to laser projected Dolby Theaters!! This is according to an associate at a Prime location. She said the screens will be closed for 5 weeks(!!) and their target movie is Tomorrowland but possibly Jurassic World. Which means they'll miss the Avengers boat. :/ I'm pretty excited  |  IP: Logged Jarod Reddig Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 513 From: Hays, Ks Registered: Jun 2011 posted 04-16-2015 05:06 AM                     Interesting! Im excited to check out the Barrywoods revamped Prime room whenever they are doing this.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 04-16-2015 08:42 AM                     quote: Dolby's web site and its theater location map is what leads me to believe that one particular Prime screen is not Atmos equipped. Normally Dolby is pretty good at getting the map updated. That Prime screen in North Dallas has been around long enough to get listed on that map if there was indeed a CP-850 in the booth. usually ... but not all the time. I had to shoot them an email that they were missing the two Atmos screens over at Arclight Bethesda.  |  IP: Logged

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