So my extended weekend viewing (Thursday night) let me sit through projection issues that I'd never seen in the digital age as well as something
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JD (aka Jason Dean)
Aug 20 '18, 08:01
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that I think I might have been format specific.
So on Thursday, I signed up for Dolby Cinema presentation of The Meg and then a showing of Crazy Rich Asians
At about the 2/3 point, the picture got suddenly much darker as well it looked like a whole different color grade kicked. It played liked that for about another minute before losing the sound and then it just completely stopped. Old days, I would have thought that the print broke but that can't be the case.
There's a few attempted re-starts with brief blips and then without sound, the movie starts from the WB logo. At this point I'm fairly sure that I'm being punished for seeing this movie even if I'm only killing time till CRA. Then the sound does kick in and we are indeed watching the movie from the start. This is stopped after about three minutes or so.
They get it started up at a point about five minutes before the movie initially had issues. House lights still on but sound is working and it generally seems to be working. Except that I can see what look to be like weird highlights at certain points of the screen.
Then the stupid trivia and technical details obsessed part of my brain kicks in, wait..isn't part of the Dolby Cinema spec dual laser projectors? I realize that what is going on is that one projector is still showing the beginning of the movie (which is really dark with the occasional warning light) and it is all but being covered up along with the sound of the current daylight scene at the 2/3 point of the movie.
OK, that's a glitch that I could have never accomplished in my days in the booth. 8-)
By the time they got the house lights down, they had the whole system back in sync.
Got a re-admit out of the whole experience and still got of there in time to get a beer before heading to CRA
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