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What am I not seeing
In the past couple of months we have gone to the couple of different theatres to see a few movies. What is puzzling to me is that none of the movies what we have seen appear to be anywhere as clear and as sharp as whet we see every night on out digital TV. Even some of the SD broadcasts are much better that whats seen in the cinema. The HD broadcast are even better.
The screen would be hundreds of times bigger than the TV screen. We sit much closed to the TV than the screen in the theatre but the relative field of view can be much the same. Why should this be so? Is it just very poor projection?
Thanks in advance
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IMHO, the quality of movie theatre projection started going downhill the day that they stopped using certified projectionists.
These days it could be anyone from the manager to the kid who also runs the concession stand 🙁
Needless to say, none of them today know anything about the technical side of a film projector other than how to turn it on and (sometimes, if we’re lucky) properly focus it. -
Your probably correct. In the past 6 months we have seen pictures shown in wrong aspect ratio, no audio at all, surround sound film with only speakers turned on, wrong film etc etc etc.
The worst however was when we had viewed about 70% of a film & it suddenly started being displayed upside down & backwards.
Thanks in advance
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I would’ve demanded my money back for any/all of those reasons.
There’s no excuse for such extreme incompetence on the part of the operator.
An email to the theatre’s head office can sometimes work.
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