Australian Trekkies were treated to the premiere of the latest $218.5 million Star Trek movie in glorious 2048x1080 CinemaScope this week at Sydney's famous Opera House.
1500 viewers were treated to the new movie beamed to earth via "the industry's brightest and clearest Barco projectors, splashed over a German-designed 2048x1080 CinemaScope screen," reports Computerworld.com
3 tonnes of Dolby kit
"They were also treated to more than 3 tonnes of forward-facing Dolby audio equipment, which swept audio horizontally across the complex."
Sydney Opera House audiovisual supervisor Chris Davies said that the awesome set-up was a first for the Opera House and could well be the start of a new era of such movie premieres at the world famous music venue.
The new Star Trek movie launches in the UK later in May.
Read Total Film's in-depth online review of the movie here.
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martinbriley
April 28th
2. 2K garbage. Consumers need to reject this fraud before more theaters cop out of the promised "glorious" future of digital projection, which is supposed to be 4K.
"glorious 2048x1080 CinemaScope"
This is retarded. Do the math: You can buy a 1920x1080 projector for your living room for a few thousand bucks, and you're crowing about 2048? HOLY ****, this "cinema" image is 128 pixels wider! A whole SIX PERCENT more resolution!
Stop the friggin' presses. Please.
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uncleook
April 9th
1. "glorious 2048x1080 CinemaScope" Bwahahaha. The resolution of a first copy film print is approx double this. Digital is the future, but lets not get excited about 2K images. We want 4K minimum at the cinema before things get interesting.
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