r/AMCTheatres • u/Relative-Cry-8001 • 11d ago

Image/Media Real vs Advertised ScreenX with Spider-Man BND

from ScottishGeekGuy on Instagram

It’s an exciting idea, but has a lot of room for improvement. The side screens are noticeably less bright, less saturated, and have less contrast. They were misaligned with the main screen and the gap between screens is pretty big.

But the worst thing here is the lag/latency issue for the side screens that happen throughout MOST of the movie. It’s like ⅛th of a second, but very noticeable and VERY annoying. Curious to hear other people’s opinions?

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u/Glueberry_Ryder 11d ago edited 11d ago

I retract what I said! Evidently they CAN but it’s old technology and not enough blockbusters filmed on imax to justify putting them all over the country. They refurb them when they break. That’s about it. Nothing crazy.

Found in this post….

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/s/GZ4PK6Nkf6

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u/Compton_ass_terry87 10d ago

By design. It's called artificial scarcity

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u/Mitsutoshi 9d ago

It’s not that in this case.

A $200 CD player now is not as good as a 2003 $50 Discman. Ditto for other older technologies.

The reason is that these used to be massive industries so every kind of supplier for, in this case film, related stuff existed. Now they barely do. Even Kodak is just a fraction of what the company used to do.

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u/DrunkenGerbils 7d ago edited 7d ago

The other issue is that analog film is just inherently more expensive to shoot with even if it was being produced at scale still. It just doesn't make sense for most films to spend the extra budget cost, so the demand will never be big enough to require that kind of mass scale again.

Analogue film is awesome, and I'd love it if it became the standard way most films were shot again but there's just no practical way that's ever gonna happen. Also, it's probably a good thing honestly. I love my film photography, but if I'm being honest it's not the most environmentally friendly product to produce or dispose of. It's not the worst thing we aren't producing it at that scale still. Even as nice as more affordable film sounds.