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Like the army of clones deployed in Episode II, a gaggle of critics has already spread the news that the picture stinks. It doesn't. It has more action than either Spider-Man or the last Star Wars film, The Phantom Menace. It's gorgeously designed and color coordinated; the...
It's a melancholy fact that the Star Wars films with the strongest acting and densest mood are The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi--the two that Lucas didn't direct. That may be the bargain a director makes when he goes over to the digital side...
It doesn't have to be this way. The latest digital-projection systems, which run from digital-data files rather than reels of film, can deliver images as sharp and rich as the best film print, without ever degrading. After viewing a demonstration of a projector using Texas Instruments' DLP...
But today fewer than 30 of the 35,000 movie screens in the U.S.--and 25 of the 75,000 screens abroad--run digital projectors. And so far, all those projectors house TI's DLP chip, which consists of an array of tiny mirrors that flip on and off, refracting...
Installing a new digital-projection system, which includes a server for storing the files and a PC for running the screening software, costs about $120,000 a screen, although the price could fall significantly as volume picks up. Even so, that sort of expense makes little sense to the operator...