Dolby Vision Projectors Available a la carte

[Scotty Wright]

Looking forward to hearing more out of CinemaCon about Dolby’s new plan to offer Vision projection to more theaters outside of AMC

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

I just hope they don't HDR every single film that gets converted. Other than that, it's great.

[Steve Guttag]

It will be interesting to see what they come up with. I'd be surprised if it is the same projectors that they currently use as they are freightenly expensive. As I understand it, they are more of a revenue sharing proposition rather than outright purchase, for AMC, at least.

[Marcel Birgelen]

The current Dolby Vision projection setup is based on two customized Christie Eclipse projectors, called the "Christie E3LH". Given that a singular Christie Eclipse projector ballpark figure is about $400K, you can extrapolate what the dual projector version with zone-dimmable integrator rod assembly and DCI certification will cost...

But this stuff has been about 10 years in the making, laser projectors have become main-stream and many of those "pure laser" machines should be capable of achieving a color gamut that exceeds DCI-P3. Still, the only way to achieve the true Dolby Vision specs of 10k nits per pixel will be via a direct-view solution.