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| 1104.1 | You may be interested in THX theatres then ... | VAXCPU::michaud | Jimmy Stewart | Fri Jun 07 1996 14:36 | 1 |
| 310 EPS::KUSEKOSKI 24-AUG-1993 15 THX certified theaters in New England
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| 1104.2 | Kendall Square, sort of | QUARRY::reeves | Jon Reeves, UNIX compiler group | Tue Jul 23 1996 23:55 | 6 |
| The Kendall Square theatre is designed with a steep slope (in part so you can
read subtitles).
Rumor has it that Sony is going to build an IMAX theatre somewhere in the
Boston area; I forget which site was mentioned. Conventional wisdom is that
Boston is under-screened.
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| 1104.3 | | WRKSYS::LASKY | | Wed Jul 24 1996 09:30 | 6 |
| The 14 sreeen theatre that is being built at the Solomon Pond Mall in
Hudson MA is supposed to be built at a steep angle so you will not have
to worry about having someone tall (like me) in front of you. I
believe it will be opening in around 9 mths.
Bart
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| 1104.4 | | MPGS::WOOLNER | Your dinner is in the supermarket | Wed Jul 24 1996 11:20 | 16 |
| .2> ...Sony is going to build an IMAX theatre somewhere in the Boston
> area
Why? Wuzzamadda with the Omnimax at the Museum of Science?
^^^^
Aren't IMAX and Omnimax reeeeeaaaaalllly similar, to the point where
they show the same movies ("Blue Planet" comes to mind)?
Or is Sony thinking that, say, Hartford or Manchester NH are in "the
Boston area"?
The more the merrier, I guess, but I wonder why they're going for
two in Boston when they could serve me better by putting one in
Worcester :-}
Leslie
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| 1104.5 | | REGENT::POWERS | | Thu Jul 25 1996 10:08 | 11 |
| > Aren't IMAX and Omnimax reeeeeaaaaalllly similar, to the point where
> they show the same movies ("Blue Planet" comes to mind)?
No, they are quite different!
IMAX is a very large FLAT screen, Omnimax is the dome-shaped screen.
Having made the same assuymption you did, I was disappointed several years
ago when we were at the Kennedy Space Center (or was it Air and Space
Museum in Wash?) and we paid real money to see what turned out to be
the IMAX version of "The Dream is Alive!" instead of the Omnimax.
- tom]
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| 1104.6 | | EDSCLU::JAYAKUMAR | | Thu Jul 25 1996 10:18 | 5 |
| The only version of big-screen stuff which really impressed me is the one
in Boston Science Museum. Nothing else comes close to that. I have been there
7 times so far.
/Jay
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| 1104.7 | (Who put the bomp...) | MPGS::WOOLNER | Your dinner is in the supermarket | Thu Jul 25 1996 11:48 | 7 |
| Wow, thanks Tom, I have no interest in seeing a flattened version
of perfection (Omni)! Luckily time constraints prevented me from
spending real bux at NASA last February (and DC a couple of years
ago).
Leslie (who never gets tired of Leonard Nimoy's intro at the Museum
of Science's Omni!)
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| 1104.8 | 3D theater | GEMGRP::WEISSMAN | | Tue Aug 06 1996 14:25 | 8 |
| I believe that what Sony's planning to build in Boston
is a 3D IMAX theater like they have in NY and Chicago.
You wear special goggles that are radio-synched to the
movie. They have a few films specially made for
the theater - several documentary-like films about
the ocean and the prairies and one film with a plot
called "Wings of Courage" - short on plot but good
on 3D effects.
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