Re: DLP showing Was Re: Master and Commander AR

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
> 
> >
> > I saw _2001: A Space Odyssey_ on its first run in New York and in the
> > space scenes the "space" seemed to me to be absolutely stark pitch
> > black.  I don't know what technology was used to accomplish this.  My
> > recollection is not good enough for me to swear in a court of law that
> > the edges of the frame were not visible, but I certainly remember that
> > space was BLACK. Not dark, not black-with-little-flecks-in-it, certainly
> > not black with little white dots or scratches in. Just black.
> 
> Cinerama with a strip screen.  I don't think any motion picture format
> can reproduce contrast as well as that.

Does not work for bright areas like sky. Looks like the film is vertically
scratched. At least if the presentations at Bradford are typical of this
kind of screen.