Originally Posted by DarthFader:
“Trouble is in modern cinemas with digital projectors and no projectionist, I have often seen 2.39:1 films shown on a 16:9 screen and vise versa. When I complained even the manager didn't really know what I was getting at .... Grrrr”
I get that sometimes with the Odeon. However, I was eventually put in touch with a guy there who knows his stuff and we exchanged a few emails where I was able to gleam, for example, that Man of Steel would be shown with an IMAX 15/70 print, but that while the adverts can only be shown with their digital projector, they can switch between the two, so ads would still have been shown on the IMAX screen, which was a source of my annoyance when I'd seen a number of films on there without the ads (and which became a benefit of IMAX) but then turned up out of the blue before The Hobbit (which was already a bladder-busting 3hrs WITHOUT 30 mins of crap before it)
Anyway, on the plus side, for the two cinemas I visit, I was able to get a list of auditoriums and their screen dimensions, plus a list of which screens are 1.85:1 and which are 2.35:1.
Am I right in thinking that, as with the case of Riddick (last Thurs, before it started a full week proper), as that was a 2.35:1 film on a 1.85:1 screen, am I losing vertical resolution because it's not using the full height of the screen? From Friday, it was in a 2.35:1 auditorium.