8abel8
Established Member
Hi All,
Had the oppotunity last month to go and see Tenet at Everyman Cinema in Hampstead, London (as a bonus me and the wife where the only ones at that screening).
Having not gone to the cinema since last year I'd forgotten how good a picture a commercial cinema can produce. By my "guesstimation" the screen was probably around 4.5m wide (so relatively small by some cinema standards) and we were probably 5.5-6m back. From what I managed to see in the projection booth it was a Sony commercial projector ( I think it was not a current model as the lens was offset to the left of the projector, something like the Sony SRX-R320). Specs show it has a CR of more tha 2000:1, lumens not sure but had to be quite high.
There was so much pop to the image, fantastic clarity and sharpness and excellent colours. I know the black levels weren't that black but i've never honestly come away after watching a movie at a cinema thinking " god, black levels were terrible".
I know standards are different for commercial cinemas than they are for the consumer market but say if i ever had the space to light up a say 4-5 metre wide screen, is there anything on the consumer market that would do that well and be as good as a cinema or come close? Looking at the other similar forum I see some people with obviously deep pockets have actually bought commercial projectors for their homes but this probably comes with it's own set of problems in terms of getting everything to work properly.
I own a JVC X7900 and have a 2.7 metre wide Seymour XD screen and while it's fantastic, the visit to the cinema has made me realise that although what I have is good, it is still quite far away from what I saw at the cinema.
What do you guys think?
Keep safe and well
Had the oppotunity last month to go and see Tenet at Everyman Cinema in Hampstead, London (as a bonus me and the wife where the only ones at that screening).
Having not gone to the cinema since last year I'd forgotten how good a picture a commercial cinema can produce. By my "guesstimation" the screen was probably around 4.5m wide (so relatively small by some cinema standards) and we were probably 5.5-6m back. From what I managed to see in the projection booth it was a Sony commercial projector ( I think it was not a current model as the lens was offset to the left of the projector, something like the Sony SRX-R320). Specs show it has a CR of more tha 2000:1, lumens not sure but had to be quite high.
There was so much pop to the image, fantastic clarity and sharpness and excellent colours. I know the black levels weren't that black but i've never honestly come away after watching a movie at a cinema thinking " god, black levels were terrible".
I know standards are different for commercial cinemas than they are for the consumer market but say if i ever had the space to light up a say 4-5 metre wide screen, is there anything on the consumer market that would do that well and be as good as a cinema or come close? Looking at the other similar forum I see some people with obviously deep pockets have actually bought commercial projectors for their homes but this probably comes with it's own set of problems in terms of getting everything to work properly.
I own a JVC X7900 and have a 2.7 metre wide Seymour XD screen and while it's fantastic, the visit to the cinema has made me realise that although what I have is good, it is still quite far away from what I saw at the cinema.
What do you guys think?
Keep safe and well