| SvennoJ said: IMAX has tarnished their reputation for me. I loved going to 70mm (8K) presentations, awesome picture quality. Then they went to display full length upscaled 35mm (4K) movies. It didn't look any better then sitting a bit closer in a regular cinema. Actually worse since the IMAX screen still was 1.36:1, almost half it is was black with a 2.35:1 movie. Even worse after that they switched to dual 2K digital projectors. And asking upwards of $20 per ticket for it. Now they're finally switching to dual 4K, but not advertising where. Their website just goes on about their digital remastering process. Messing with saturation, contrast, brightness and aspect ratio. This picture has been formatted to fit this screen. As a videophile that all screams no to me. IMAX could get me back into theaters now movies are filmed and mastered in 4K, but they're just too slow with 4K adoption, and not advertising it at all. I'm not going to drive half an hour to check if they've made the switch or not. IMAX should have been a forerunner in presenting 4K movies. |
So IMAX is 8K HD.
Well we can now confirm that 8K HD TVs will happen, but hopefully not for up to 5 years from now.
One of the problems with IMAX is that theaters now have their own IMAX with 4K projectors and of course also advance seating & advance audio. Plus the much more flatter screen for a IMAX size screen is such versions as Rave XTREME. But AMC is probably the most major theater chain in America and they seem to have no self version of IMAX making them use actual IMAX only, which should help.
For TVs, 2K 3D is all I need. I was considering to later upgrade to 4K since all Hollywood movies since something like 2010 have been filmed in at least digital 4K 2D & 3D cameras. Anyways, since 8K HD is IMAX, I will just skip 4K TVs.
Thanks for mentioning that IMAX is 8K HD.
Did you know that they now have Digital 2D & 3D IMAX Cameras and that they weigh less then physical 2D IMAX cameras, and that they don't make much noise, and that they are smaller?
So far it seems only the Digital 3D IMAX Cameras are being used, and Transformers 4 is one of the movies. Christopher Nolan seems to hate Digital, but I don't know why.
