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Author Topic: People are catching wise to IMAX MPX/Digital... Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-08-2009 09:43 PM                        Does distribution get more due to the extra charge for 3D and LIEMAX auditoriums?  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 10-08-2009 10:02 PM                        quote: Jonathan Althaus So its ok to pay a premium for a 3D experience, but not ok to pay extra for a large-screen experience? Why? Drive-ins offered 100+ foot screens for 60 years. Now, they're more or less a novelty. Why should people be so impressed with 70 feet indoors?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-08-2009 10:31 PM                     A big screen on its own does not impress me one bit. Throw an image on there featuring proper brightness and sharp detail at that scale and I might be impressed. 4/35mm and 2K D-cinema don't have what it takes to work well on giant sized screens. It's like buying a monster truck and putting a dinky 4 cylinder econo box car engine under the hood. 70mm is the only thing that really gets the job done on giant sized screens.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Althaus Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Bedford, TX Registered: Dec 2008 posted 10-08-2009 10:32 PM                     All I'm saying is that I don't mind paying extra for a premium experience, if it is in fact better than a normal presentation. I'll fork out a couple extra dollars for XD or film-based IMAX in an authentic IMAX auditorium. DFW is full of LIMAX's, yet I'll only go to the ones that are legit. For the same reason I'll pay a lot more for a porterhouse at del Frisco's than a sirloin at roadhouse.  |  IP: Logged

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