Motion Simulator for Home Theater

Dalvenjah FoxFire writes "D-Box, a Canadian speaker company, has designed a system called the Odyssee consisting of four motor-driven actuators that go under your couch and a controller box with a CD-ROM drive for the control files. The controller reads the Dolby Digital bitstream from your DVD player, and plays back synchronized motion effects designed by the company. For about $20,000, you too can add motion simulation to your home theater. They have a list on their site of the movies they've encoded, including The Matrix, Drunken Master, Star Wars Episode I, and more, though it also has an 'audio driven' mode which will work with any source."

Comments

Just Imagine...

[silverhalide]

I can't wait until they encode Debbie Does Dallas, and other high quality pr0n flicks. As usual, pr0n will take this technology to the next level!!

Motion Enhanced Drunken Master

[Marijuana al-Shehi]

For $20,000 I will come to your home theater, put the Drunken Master DVD in your player, and punch you in the face in perfect synch with the on-screen fighting. Now that's reality!

Re:This is the same old problem

[Zeinfeld]

Who in their right mind spends $2000 on a television? I guess some people do, because I see them carting those huge boxes outside to their car.

Never bought a house then? Thought not.

Buy a house and you will suddenly find that you end up paying the most ridiculous prices for stuff. It is pretty easy to end up paying $2,000 just to hang wallpaper. And as for curtains. And don't think that you have a choice about it since in matters of this type you will be overulled by she who must be obeyed or you won't get sex for three months.

So when you get to this point you will find yourself buying a $2000 TV because doing so is much cheaper than redecorating. And at the end of the day you are going to look at the TV much more often tha anything else in your house.

Re:At the very least

[Scratch-O-Matic]

My MSBonk crashed. Now I have the blue balls of death.