[Richard W. Haines]

What moveigoers want is a 'show' that's more spectacular than you can get at home.
Right now you aren't getting that in megaplexes are anything approximating that.
70mm and dye transfer Technicolor gave a spectacular show that you couldn't get
at home but they've been abandoned. High speed prints cranked out from INs three
generations removed from the negative do not. That's all that's shown outside of
LA and some film festivals. What else is there to say? They must dramatically improve
the print quality and the presentation in cinemas since you can get better quality in
a home theater, especially with HD DVD. 3-D is a gimmick process (I know because
I made a movie, "Run for Cover", in the system) that comes in 10 year cycles. Each
new generation has fun with off screen shots until they become cliche and lose interest.


The only processes that brought in people to cinemas for longer than a few years each
cycle were the enormous wide screen and/or curved screen systems like 70mm or Cinerama
combined with dye transfer Technicolor. On the best and most expensive high end
audio/visual HD equipment, you cannot replicate "2001: A Space Odyssey" in Cinerama or
"Lawrence of Arabia" in 70mm. What's shown in cinemas today can easily be surpassed
in quality from what you can get from high end (and even low end) DLPs and DVDs.
Showmanship is virtually non-existent in most megaplexes. So where do we go from there?