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David Kilderry
Master Film Handler

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From: Melbourne Australia
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 08-13-2010 09:23 PM

We have run film 3D with no problems in the past at our drive-in.

We'll just need a glasses collection point at the ticket box if we go with Dolby; then there will be a line-up of cars waiting to exit the theatre as well as get in!

....or go silver screen and watch it rust.

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Jack Ondracek
Film God

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From: Port Orchard, WA, USA
Registered: Oct 2002

posted 08-15-2010 01:11 AM

quote: David Kilderry
We have run film 3D with no problems in the past at our drive-in.

We'll just need a glasses collection point at the ticket box if we go with Dolby; then there will be a line-up of cars waiting to exit the theatre as well as get in!

....or go silver screen and watch it rust.

So have I, but it was the anaglyph process... not all that good.

If you haven't silvered your screen(s) yet, you probably haven't run the kind of 3D that's the topic here.

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Jonathan Althaus
Master Film Handler

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From: Bedford, TX
Registered: Dec 2008

posted 08-17-2010 03:24 PM

Spud Drive-In in Idaho is digital

Spud Drive-In Goes Digital

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For more than half a century, the Spud Drive-In has been a local landmark in Diggs, Idaho. Last month, with screenings of Despicable Me and Robin Hood, it became America’s first true digital drive-in. While other outdoor theatres have used digital projectors to show DVDs to large outdoor audiences, Spud is the only drive-in to date to actually employ digital cinema projection and surround sound audio. They plan to install 3D technology this month.

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Sam D. Chavez
Film God

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From: Martinez, CA USA
Registered: Aug 2003

posted 08-17-2010 06:26 PM

"using mono-speakers that hung in the windows to broadcast the audio and twin carbon ark real to real projectors."

We have a novice reporter here. Ark and real to real?

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Jack Ondracek
Film God

Posts: 2348
From: Port Orchard, WA, USA
Registered: Oct 2002

posted 08-18-2010 12:03 AM

quote: Sam D. Chavez
Ark and real to real?

yah... well, consider where it came from. [Roll Eyes]

What's the practical range for viewing silvered screens. Last one I saw, the light drop-off was pretty dramatic beyond 40 degrees or so.

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Louis Bornwasser
Film God

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From: prospect ky usa
Registered: Mar 2005

posted 08-25-2010 02:33 PM

Really? Is Noah involved? Louis

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