Movie Tavern 3D
Movie Tavern prides itself in providing customers with the most exciting
theater experience possible. Movie Tavern has now introduced digital
projection and digital 3D in select locations, allowing patrons to
experience one of the newest innovations to the film industry.
While traditional celluloid 35mm film has been used to shoot movies for
the last century, digital projectors now allow filmmakers to show their
work with the detail intended and in a range of up to 35 trillion
colors. Digital presentation also provides a sharper image that is not
susceptible to fading or scratching.
With the advancement of digital projection, films can be formatted in 3D
to create the effect that the audience is sitting in the midst of the
film. By using two images (one for the right eye and one for the left
eye), the 3D effect is achieved when images are viewed with lightweight
glasses that decode the 3D images and allow viewers to see both images.
Movie Tavern digital capabilities are equipped with RealD, the world’s
leading digital 3D experience provider. This patented technology, which
is currently used in space exploration and industrial design, reflects
the way the human eye really sees things – in 3D. RealD delivers digital
3D to the highest standard in cinemas by producing a seamless 3D picture
that appears to project both behind and in front of the screen.
Movie Tavern launched the installation of digital projectors in 2008 and
has unveiled the power of digital projection at the following locations:
Aurora location in Aurora, CO;
Central Park location in Bedford, TX;
Green Oaks location in Arlington, TX;
High Street location in Williamsburg, VA.;
Hulen location in Fort Worth, TX;
Mill Run location in Hilliard, OH; and the
Willowbrook location in Houston, TX;
There will be an additional $2.00 charge per ticket for all shows
featured in 3D digital format.
So How Does It Work?
The RealD 3-D system is based on the push-pull electro-optical modulator
called the ZScreen invented by Lenny Lipton, an American inventor.
The technique that RealD uses is comparable to the traditional method of
3-D imaging which uses linearly polarized glasses. The traditional
method works by projecting two differently linearly polarized images
onto the same screen, polarized at +45° and -45° from the horizontal,
which are then filtered by linearly polarized glasses worn by the
audience. This type of 3-D imaging requires two projectors, and suffers
from visible double-imaging if the head is tilted to the side which
places the glasses at an inappropriate angle.
RealD however uses a single projector that alternately projects the
right-eye frame and left-eye frame, and circularly polarizes these
frames, clockwise for the right-eye and counterclockwise for the
left-eye, using a liquid-crystal screen placed in front of the projector
lens. Circularly polarized glasses make sure each eye sees only "its
own" picture, even if the head is tilted. The very high framerate, which
is 72 frames per second per eye, makes sure the image looks continuous.
In RealD Cinema, each frame is projected three times to reduce flicker,
as the source video is usually 24 frames per second. The result is a
seamless 3-D picture that seems to extend behind and in front of the
screen itself.
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