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The only exception is the few independent/art houses. These folks are gonna be the last to get digital equipment, and the films that they show are gonna be the last available for digital distribution.

In Dallas, The Magnolia Theater currently has DLP according to the DLP web site . The Magnolia is an independent/art theater. Many independent "film" creators are using digital video now since the editing and processing costs are lower. Most end up transferring digital video to film for distribution, but having digital theaters opens up the possibility of distribution without the expense of celluloid. This works out well for low budget independent film makers.

Digital projection opens up other possibilities too, like projecting live events. For example, The Magnolia is showing a high definition broadcasts of the Visa Triple Crown and a Dallas Mavericks basketball game according to their calendar.

Here is the link you were looking for (list of films available in DLP).

1024 shades of grey, that's 35 trillion colours. The maths dosn't add up there, but either way, it's a tab more that anything around today.

Coming? It's already here. What he's calling by the generic name MEMS, Texas Insturments calls by their trade name DLP (Digital Light Processing). It's all over the place, expecially the digital presentations of "Star Wars, Part 2: Attack of the Clones". Not mentioning the most successful current MEMS technology really costs him some credibility.

Huh? This is just another display alternative. HDTV is a digital broadcast format, allowing higher resolution material to be displayed.

In fact, many of the new HDTV displays are using MEMS technology. See http://www.dlp.com/

DLP is used both for front projectors, and reap projection HDTV's.

Some better descriptions of how MEMS display work here and here (flash based, but very good)

The DLP projectors are made by Texas Instruments. Link

By the way, here is a reference from TI's official website stating that the resolution is 1280x1024.

Other news, more digital theaters, unfortunately shy on details, but there's a listing of some on DLP.

Digital Light Processing. A lame abbreviation if there ever was one. :-) A Texas Instruments technology, anyway.

I learned from the website that the 3 chip projectors use 3 chips each at 1280x1024 (1 for each color). That works out to more than 3000x1600. Also it is my understanding that the picture is much brighter because the lamp isn't being switched. I dunno. I will check it out for myself. There is a theater here in Vegas that has DLP.

The DLP website has some information. It is a big task and big expense for theaters to upgrade to it. You need special projectors, although (AFAIK) you use the same screen. The movie is actually stored digitally, which I assume means a big hard drive. The big advantage that I have seen to DLP is that the image brightness higher than film, the color clarity is similarly excellent.

Also the film quality doesn't degrade over time. Ever seen a movie after it's been in the theater for a while? You have probably noticed some aging of the film, such as scratches, fading, and so forth. There is no similar phenmomena with digital, so the 400th showing is just as clean as the 1st.

I live about 10 minutes from the Springdale, OH theater, but they have nothing like that (and its only a couple years old).

I live in Greenhills, which is within 10 minutes of that Springdale theater. I wasn't aware that they have a DLP projector, but they do. In fact, my wife saw a digital movie projected by their DLP projector; she said it was incredible, and she was very disappointed with the quality next time she saw a normal film. (I guess I'll have to make a point of going to see a digital movie there soon!)

Here's a list of DLP-enabled Theatres from Texas Instruments, includes at least 6 theatres not listed in the Wired article, plus links to the theatres' websites.

That list would appear to be somewhat inaccurate, at least for what they say is available in Nevada. They say that the Century Orleans 18 is equipped with digital projection, but a quick trip to the Century Theatres website sez that the Century 18 Sam's Town is the local digital-projection outlet. (No word on whether AotC will run on their digital screen...they're currently playing Ice Age on it.)

There are several perople that are rallying against digital projection. Roger Ebert, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg to name a few. These are people who have a vast amount of experience in this field. Ebert, for one, has been the most vocal about his distaste for digital projection: claiming that it yields muted colors and compression artifacts.

No doubt it's better than DVD quality, but there definitely some compression going on. To match the quality of 35mm print, you need something like a 5 megapixel camera. For 1/1.85 aspect ratio projection you're talking about a 3,000 x 1600 pixel image. Is the resolution on DLP that good? On the DLP website I couldn't get any hard numbers for what the resolution will be for digital projection (there's alot of info there, so be my guest). Even with DVD compression levels you're gonna have to put this thing on a 100gig hard drive, and the compression is quite noticable to film buffs (admittedly, I can only tell with poorely encoded dvd's).

Besides, there are alot of things that influence the quality of the cinema experience. Hardly any theatres use the correct brightness for their projectors. Furthermore, the jump to 50mm or 75mm film would have an astounding leap in quality. You could double the framerate, but you'd also double the number of film canisters (I worked at a theater during high school, those suckers can get pretty big and heavy).

Right here. It is world-wide. I am not sure how often the list is updated. I believe Wired's list is more updated for this movie.

Here's a list of DLP-enabled Theatres from Texas Instruments, includes at least 6 theatres not listed in the Wired article, plus links to the theatres' websites.

DLP = Digital Light Processing and is supposedly better than Plasma/LCD. 4 Million+ mirrors in this sucker less than a micron apart each.

Here's a list of DLP-enabled Theatres from Texas Instruments, includes at least 6 theatres not listed in the Wired article, plus links to the theatres' websites.

DLP = Digital Light Processing and is supposedly better than Plasma/LCD. 4 Million+ mirrors in this sucker less than a micron apart each.

I've just found the 18.1" NEC 1850x which supposedly has a refresh rate of 15ms from black to white and white to black, but am uncertain if this is "real" anyone seen any reviews? From what I've read this would make a good gaming LCD monitor. Though I must say the $1300 pricetag is a kick in the wallet.

Anyone found any new technology that will make us wish for something other then LCDs? I've seen all the articles about the different process technology for LCDs, but nothing exciting.

Anyone seen DLP flatscreen monitors? DLP seems to do everything you want, they make kick ass tvs.

While AtoC was "filmed" with digital cameras, there are just not enough theatres for it only to be shown on digital projectors. The vast majority of the theatre going public will be viewing a transfer of the digital to conventional film format, and these prints will degrade just like all the other movie prints. You should be able to see what theatre(s) have DLP projectors at the following:

http://www.dlp.com/dlp/cinema/where.asp

(though it should be noted that just because a theatre has a DLP projector doesn't necessarily mean they will either show AtoC or that if they do, they will be using the DLP projector to do so, or that if they do, that they won't also be showing a film version of it on another screen(s))

Buy some stock in TI now! Their DLP Chip is going to revolutionize television and probably the computer monitor market, as well. Check out this press release.

The Vestel prototype, a 43" (110cms) diagonal 16:9 aspect ratio table top television, weighs just 75lbs (34kgs) and measures only 18" (46cms) front to back. The production version is expected to weigh even less at 55lbs (25kgs), with a depth of just 12" (31cms) and will be suitable for mounting on a shelf or tabletop.

This chip will eventually drive HDTV cost down to the point of critical mass. Then we will start seeing HDTV content.

Buy some stock in TI now! Their DLP Chip is going to revolutionize television and probably the computer monitor market, as well. Check out this press release.

The Vestel prototype, a 43" (110cms) diagonal 16:9 aspect ratio table top television, weighs just 75lbs (34kgs) and measures only 18" (46cms) front to back. The production version is expected to weigh even less at 55lbs (25kgs), with a depth of just 12" (31cms) and will be suitable for mounting on a shelf or tabletop.

This chip will eventually drive HDTV cost down to the point of critical mass. Then we will start seeing HDTV content.

I did work on this in college for a physics of light and color class. His experiment worked best when he used cyan and red filters for the projectors/cameras. Cyan is the light equivalent of combining blue and green. So in effect, you get RGB, with only taking two black and white samples of a scene.
This is also how 2-chip DLP works. 1-chip DLP uses a color wheel containing RGB, and alterately projects an image of each color, the chip is, in essence, the black and white sample. 2-chip DLP uses a cyan filter on one of the projector's chips, and a red filter on the other, in effect, reproducing Land's experiment! 3-chip DLP uses a chip for each of RGB.

Texas Instruments Digital Light Processing

Don't have time to read every post right now, so while I'm thinking about it..

Locate a DLP theatre near you. And for the very early poster, there are 23 theatres in the US. Its not a typo.

I saw Akira twice while it was in theatres (great movie BTW), the first time with digital projection, the second a week later (when I thought it would still be digital) on film. The DLP screen was much sharper with more consistent and saturated color. The opening motorcycle chase (with the incredibly detailed backgrounds) was simply amazing on the DLP but looked muddy and washed out in comparison on film. The colors were way more saturated and the DLP (I swear to God) had more dynamic range than any film I've seen in a theatre. Nothing I've seen on film has come close. I could say the same thing about Monster's Inc on DLP vs. film.

I'm sure that film can theoretically match the clarity and sharpness that I've seen but it never has. The print you watch in the movie theatre is at least a 3rd gen print and too often a 4th or 5th (or god forbid higher) generation print. And it's been run through the projector 4 times a day gathering dust and scratches. The film batches are different, the chemistry is slightly different and the printing process can't be repeated exactly everytime. And even if it could control all of that, you're making 3rd, 4th and 5th+ generation prints! Yes, a 70mm print can do better than 1080p24, but can a 5th generation print do the same? Can it match the original's color? Can it match the original's 1080 lines of resolution? From what I've seen, the answer is a big, huge NO!

I'd pay an extra 2-3 bucks per showing if I could get all digital, that's how much better I think it is.

Having seen Final Fantasy today, two showings in a row -- first "analog" then DLP ("digital"), I would strongly recommend you see this film in DLP mode.

While there were minor pixelation issues from the DLP projection (mostly in extra large fonts with diagonals), there was (to my eye) a dramatic difference in quality between the analog and the DLP projection, with DLP providing an astonishing level of extra detail and richness.

I saw Final Fantasy in Canada; If you don't have DLP where you live, I suggest you move. =P

My calculations should end up with approx. 2 Gbit/sec. (Gbps) throughput.

TI has already demoed a full SXGA (1280 x 1024) 24-bit resolution all-digital graphics display which handles 1.89 Gbit/sec. throughput. See this PDF.

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How could they leave out Texas Instruments DLP? Over half a million in the field, each with hundreds of thousands of moving parts. See www.ti.com/dlp for more info.

And you (and the moderators) forgot to check your link. TI DLP actually lives at www.dlp.com.

info from ti

MaterialType Fatigue(MPa)Density(g/cc)Melting(C)
Al/6061 60 2.7 582
Ti/11/6/4,720C 1000 5.06 1573
Co/Cr/Ni Coldworked 500 8.3 1427
Silicon /100/ 120 2.31414