Word: projectors
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...Curzon cinema in London's Soho in October, the film had played every day for more than a month - but not once did it shudder, skip or pop out of focus. This picture-perfect vision comes courtesy of a brand-new digital cinema system, a combination of high-tech projector and computer server that could one day kick celluloid out of the projection booth for good. The old mechanism ran 3,600 m of delicate 35-mm film through a series of giant reels. Every screening added another layer of blips and blotches to the film. The new system plays...
...films to wider audiences. And with up to 10 films sitting on one server, movie houses could change their programs to suit demand. If a showing for a film sells out, add a copy on a second screen; if a film bombs, replace it with anything starring Julia Roberts. Projector makers and server manufacturers that have been selling equipment in ones and twos for almost a decade look for sales to boom. Belgium's Barco is one of three companies - along with Christie and Japan's NEC - that almost everyone goes to for digital projection. It has an 80% share...
Tell a story Think of the projector as a campfire and spin your remarks into a narrative. Memorable talks feature anecdotes-- just make sure that yours are colorful...
...Jarhead” does nothing to romanticize war. It never glamorizes violence—mainly because there is very little violence to glamorize. “Jarhead”’s marines fetishize combat; they treat the war movies they watch on the rec room film projector like pornos, moaning orgasmically as Martin Sheen’s helicopter swoops down on Vietnamese villages while Wagner’s “The Ride of the Valkyries” blares in the background. But Swofford and his fellow marines never get the conflict they want to fight. When...
...from a friend who knew that I was just vain enough to hang up pictures of myself,” he chuckles. “You can write that down.” Matsui replaced the drab dorm lamps with the mod light of a movie projector. The compact machine rests on her desk, poised to illuminate the opposite wall, blank except for a clothesline of scattered photographs. Matsui also mounted two gilded wood carvings, trinkets from the pair’s trip to Bangkok. “We live in the Quad. We have to entice our friends somehow...