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Author Topic: Toronto Scotiabank IMAX goes digital, no longer plays 15/70 film Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-30-2015 01:45 PM                     quote: I said a while back that IMAX may differentiate IMAX Xenon/IMAX laser. IMAX isn't doing that on their theater listings map and information page on the specific theaters. They're just getting the same old usual, generic, misleading "IMAX" treatment. It shouldn't be too hard for them to add the "laser" notation or have a different colored theater types push pin on the map to denote laser-based installations. They only have to do that with 2 theaters at this point.  |  IP: Logged Terry Lynn-Stevens Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1081 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Dec 2012 posted 04-30-2015 02:41 PM                     quote: Jonathan Goeldner out of curiosity Terry - what's the screen's height size? I do not have the exact height, but I think it is 66 feet. I also got the impression that the screen was every so slightly reduced when IMAX installed the laser system. For some reason I remember it going deeper in the pit area as this screen for some reason looks like it had the pit area raised up.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 04-30-2015 02:48 PM                     Four Bobby - Udvar Hazy debuts it's laser system tonight with 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' and Seattle's Boeing IMAX Theater tomorrow didn't realize that if Scotiabank is that tall it's the same size as the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater / Smithsonian Natural History Museum  |  IP: Logged Terry Lynn-Stevens Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1081 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Dec 2012 posted 04-30-2015 03:05 PM                     What is the screen size of Udvar Hazy? I have been there in the past, it should be close to Scotiabank, if not bigger.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 04-30-2015 03:10 PM                     it went up a foot to 86ft by 62 ft Natural History Samuel C. Johnson IMAX theater is 90ft by 66ft Air & Space Lockheed Martin IMAX theater: 74ft by 48ft  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 05-01-2015 04:09 PM                     since the Scotiabank is DCP/laser I guess I can similarly talk about what I saw this morning at a demonstration/showcase of the new IMAX-laser system at the Smithsonian's Air & Space Udvar Hazy in Chantilly Virginia. Presented by IMAX Chief Quality Officer David Keighley - we got demoe'd - the new IMAX logo accompanied by sound effects from 'Furious 7' - a promo edit of 'Interstellear' / in both 2.40, windowboxed archival interview footage and 4:3 IMAX shot footage (the latter of which had my jaw on the floor) - 2D and 3D teaser of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' - the 4:3 AR Burj Khalifa skyscraper scene from ''Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol' - a scene from 'Rolling Stones: Live at the Max' - trailer for 'Tomorrowland' - promo IMAX sound montage in 3D and 12.0 audio - scene from 'Rocky Mountain Express' (4:3) The sound montage was impressive but not a lot of ceiling sourcing - the one bit with the inside of the space shuttle cockpit creaking and crackling from lift off was the best demonstration where sound emitted all around the listener including some unnerving convincing overhead sound cues. I stayed after the presentation and Q&A to watch 'Journey to Space 3D' and while it pretty much decimated the 2K DCP I saw at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry in Portland - minor inconsistencies seemed evident, some lettering looked a tad fuzzy. (I don't recall seeing this anomaly in the 15/70 print I saw down at the Lockheed Martin IMAX screen) Colors, luminance and black levels though on the laser system were excellent, the only problem with 'Journey to Space' is that a lot of the footage is not 15/70 photography and/or computer simulation animation (the latter of which looked terrible at OMSI) - I think a true test would be to see a completely shot 15/70 feature DMR'd to the new IMAX DCP's. all in all though I was very impressed by what I saw and heard.  |  IP: Logged Ivan Plamondon Film Handler Posts: 42 From: Welland, Ontario, Canada Registered: May 2013 posted 07-31-2015 10:15 AM                     I would certainly appreciate a tour of the Scotiabank Center booth. Does anyone have the contact information of their Chief Projectionist?  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 12-23-2015 08:16 AM                     May not fit in here, but does someone know wether Star Wars 7 is played in IMAX laser theaters in 3D-4k? I know there is no DCI/SMPTE 4k DCP standard, but as the IMAX laser hardware is capable of 3D/4k and IMAX is doing their own DCPs, could they have established their own internal 4k-3D-DCP standard, playing SW7 in a DMR/4k-3D version? Any IMAX-Laser operators reading this? Or, leaving SW7 aside, is IMAX currently able to show native 3D-4k? - Carsten  |  IP: Logged

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