![]() ![]() ![]() Of note for those in KC: If you go to Barrywoods 24, reserve your seats in ROW H. I took my wife to an SDR screening of Civil War on Saturday and the flashing police lights, red clocks on the wall of the headquarters building, and emergency lights after the blackout just didn't have the same pop. The difference is noticeable enough that watching SDR versions of the same content leaves me feeling a little "meh." The Blu-ray of TFA looks good, but the lightsabers and starfields just don't have that richness that they did in the Dolby Cinema. What's more, the starfields in TFA really had "pop" to them while the darkness of space remained very dark. Both looked AMAZING! What has really stood out to me with HDR is the richness of color in bright areas of the image such as lightsabers, police car lights, and so on. I've seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Captain America: Civil War at the Barrywoods 24 here in Kansas City, Missouri. ![]() With HDR, you could see all the detail in the dark interior areas plus all the brighter detail to the exterior wreckage outside. There are also extended scenes where they are climbing through the interior of wrecked buildings. The screen was completely inky dark as if if the projector was turned off until they came around a corner into the picture. Partial images of the tunnel walls would fade in and out of the inky blackness as it was illuminated by the flashlight beam when they ran past the camera. The flashlights in the Maze Runner tunnel scene had that very bright blue/white light from high intensity LED bulbs. You couldn't see at all where the screen ended and the black curtains began. However, with the laser projectors in the Dolby theater the screen was completely ink black wherever the lights didn't shine. Normally at other theaters, the "black" areas are dark gray and you can easily see the perimeter of the entire screen where the gray turns to black at the edge. There is a scene where they are running through underground drainage tunnels with flashlights. The blacks from the later projector were truly amazing, especially when contrasted with the bright highlights from HDR. The first HDR film that we saw in the AMC Burbank Dolby Theater was Maze Runner: Scorch Trials. Wukesong Beijing, Sparkle Roll/Jackie Chan Cinema Tangshan Guoji, Sparkle Roll/Jackie Chan Cinema South Barrington, AMC South Barrington 30 Skokie, AMC Showplace Village Crossing 18 Westminster, AMC Westminster Promenade 24 * The El Capitan has Dolby Vision HDR projection and Atmos sound, but it is not a true Dolby Cinema venue, because it does not have stadium seating and other features. Rancho Cucamonga, AMC Victoria Gardens 12 If there's one near you, I encourage you to check it out! Ticket prices for Dolby Cinema are typically a few bucks more than conventional theaters, but in my opinion, it's well worth the extra cost to see the best projected image available anywhere. Be sure to check with the theater to verify that the Dolby Cinema auditorium is showing a Dolby Vision-graded version of the movie before heading out. For example, some choose not to compete with other nearby venues this seems to be a particular problem in Texas. Also, not all Dolby Cinema locations play Dolby Vision-graded movies during their theatrical run that's up to each exhibitor. Unfortunately, not all movies shown in Dolby Cinemas are graded in HDR for a list of titles that are, click here. If you live near any of the operational locations that is playing a Dolby Vision-graded movie, I strongly recommend that you see it there rather than a conventional theater. Dolby Atmos creates a hemispherical soundfield with speakers all around and overhead, which is much more immersive than conventional surround sound.Īs of this writing, the number of Dolby Cinemas has grown to 65 in the US-all within AMC multiplexes thanks to an exclusive deal with Dolby-with five in Europe and 16 in China, with more slated to come online soon. By contrast, a conventional lamp-based digital cinema has a peak luminance of 14 fL (48 nits) and a black that is more rightly called dark-or even not-so-dark-gray. This system can reproduce true HDR images with essentially perfect blacks and a peak luminance of 31 foot-lamberts (106 nits), and movies graded in Dolby Vision can look better than anything I've ever seen in a commercial cinema or home theater. In its commercial incarnation, Dolby Vision uses two laser-illuminated projectors firing onto the screen. So I maintain a list of these venues so you can see if there's one near you.ĭolby Cinemas combine Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) and Dolby Atmos immersive sound. But no matter how much I write and talk about it, nothing compares with experiencing it for yourself. As I've written and said many times, Dolby Cinema is the finest moviegoing experience available today.
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