My theatre already has two requests to attend the first showings on the DLP. One group wants to camp out two weeks ahead of time and the other just wants to reserve seats.

They want to see it in DLP because that is the way George intended it.

Thought you'z guys might find that funny.

I am concerned about all the product coming out after EP2, especially if George gets his way about house placement and time commitment.

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Here is the article:

"It took hundreds of talented people and several years to make Star Wars:
Episode II Attack of the Clones, but as the film's opening day nears, a small
band of specialists takes over, charged with ensuring that the film's audience
sees and hears the movie exactly the way as George Lucas intended. That
group consists of 25 people within the THX Theatre Alignment Program (TAP),
which has provided its quality assurance services on over 1,000 films. But this
history-making project is far from routine -- for the first time every theatre
showing the 35mm film version of the movie will get a first generation print -- a
print with a level of quality that is typically delivered on just a handful of "show"
prints.

The mass production of such high quality prints, which TAP is charged with
checking, is one benefit that comes with the decision to shoot the movie
digitally, because transferring digital footage to film involves fewer duplication
steps than the traditional process. "Image quality suffers slightly with each
generation in the film duplication process," explained Ted Costas, Sales and
Operations Manager for TAP and the Digital Mastering Program (DMP).
"Traditionally, there is one original negative, and from the original negative an
interpositive is made, and from that, multiple internegatives are created. These
are used to produce the prints that are distributed to theatres. But starting with a
digital file -- and it’s a pristine digital source master, certified by THX -- we can
produce multiple original negatives, and then go straight to the final prints. This
way, we're releasing first generation prints to all screens. That's never been done
before."

To check prints, TAP has personnel at labs in Southern California, Toronto,
London, Rome, Mexico City and Sydney, Australia. For the two weeks leading
up to the film's debut, technicians will be checking prints around the clock.
What's more, TAP personnel will accompany every print on its trip from the lab
to the various screening facilities to ensure its safe arrival.

While that effort is underway, other TAP personnel will be aligning theatres --
setting light levels and making sound system adjustments. TAP will also send
each theatre an Episode II information package containing a director’s letter and
service instructions to ensure that each theatre has the information needed for
optimal playback. There will also be the 1-800-PHONE-THX End Credit Service
that gives moviegoers the opportunity to contact THX about any presentation
problems.

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