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Author Topic: Famous Players Imax Jesse August Film Handler Posts: 58 From: Vancouver British Columbia Registered: Jul 2003 posted 01-24-2004 09:41 PM                     Gordon I would have to agree with you. last I heard (in December) they were still working out the bugs. Also correct me if I am wrong but I am under the impression the rotor will be self threading. Insert the film on the input side and it comes out the output side threaded, no need to lift the hood.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-24-2004 10:01 PM                     If bell and howell can't get an auto loader right with the many thousand machines they sold then I doubt IMAX with the fact they have layed off all ther top engineers can the mighty has fallen to the level of many corporate idiots  |  IP: Logged John McConnel Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Okmulgee, OK USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-24-2004 11:42 PM                        >the mighty has fallen to the level of many corporate idiots< The accountant-types seem to be running -and ruining- many good businesses.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-25-2004 02:40 PM                        I don't know Gordon, a screen that's 70ft wide by 4.5 stories high for a room with just over 300 seats is a pretty big screen. They are still running 15/70, and I am assuming they are still getting a bright image with the same rez as a "normal" IMAX install, so how will this be perceived as less that the normal IMAX to the general public? Wouldn't the audience still see this as massively larger than normal 35mm theatres?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2004 02:50 PM                     the name IMAX came from the term Image Maximization and it was the verticle height of the image that helps to create the sense of depth to the image The MPX is not based on the frame shape of standard IMAX films but the smaller height utilized in the DMR transfers  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-25-2004 06:48 PM                     An IMAX in Miami closed down earlier this month. Is this happening elsewhere?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2004 08:27 PM                     look in the ground level under the UK closure and it lists several "corporate IMAX closures" I gues there are business plans and then there are business plans  |  IP: Logged

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