OT - Digital or film presentation

Maverick wrote on 9/14/2008, 2:50 PM
Off to see the Quantum Of Solace as soon as the tickets go on sale in London.

I notice that the Empire Leceister Square lists two versions with the second called a Digial Presentation.

I am a little confused over this...

I thought that if a film was recorded digitally then film was not involved and vice-versa.

Does the above two versions mean it was frecorded on film and transferred to digial media or filmed digitally and remastered to film?

What benefits does one have over the other? Most people seem to think that film offers butter viewing than digital and I don't think I have ever seen a film digitally at a cinema as yet - at least, not knowingly.

Cheers

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/14/2008, 3:12 PM
i thought the "digital" meant the sound. IE analog is normally not as good as digital sound.
Maverick wrote on 9/14/2008, 3:25 PM
I wondered that but you don't hear sound digitally and most cinemas have been showing the THX or Dolby Digital logos as the film starts without indicating it's a digital presentation beforehand.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/14/2008, 3:45 PM
not sure, but around here many movies advertise "digital sound". many also don't. Theater's do the same thing too.
farss wrote on 9/14/2008, 5:34 PM
You can shoot film and project it digitally or the other way around.
Most film today is transferred to digital (Digital Intermediate), manipulated digitally and then printed back to film.

Bob.
Coursedesign wrote on 9/14/2008, 7:01 PM
This is something we see a lot in Los Angeles.

Digital Presentation means digital projection, today mostly 2K, but increasingly 4K resolution.

It does look better than film projection, especially at the Hollywood producer-hammered theaters in L.A. (poor projection is not accepted here).
Serena wrote on 9/14/2008, 7:43 PM
The difference between film and digital projection used to be obvious (in favour of film) that is no longer so. At the recent Melbourne International Film Festival one of the two of the multiplexes used are set up with both systems and I considered the systems performed seamlessly. I did notice when they had to project from a DVD and when they had a film print in a retrospective series. Of course one can identify one from the other fairly easily when you wish to do that exercise.
AtomicGreymon wrote on 9/14/2008, 8:33 PM
My preference these days is digital, for sure. However, that's mostly due to the fact that the movie theatres in my area that use film projection do an embarrassingly bad job. Add to that the fact that many of their screens seem to be worn-out, and there's no way they're getting my business.

When I want to go see a movie these days, I usually go into downtown Toronto to the new AMC theatre that uses digital projection exclusively. Sounds like it'd be nice living in LA, if only for the theatres, lol.
richard-courtney wrote on 9/14/2008, 9:17 PM
We have theaters with TI DLP or 2K Christie projectors and go all the way out to
let you know it. Even have Screenvision preshow advertising.

We are even seeing more indie night in digital than film.