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Author Topic: Wizard of Oz, 70th Anniversary Screening in HD on 9/23/09? David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-21-2009 03:38 PM                        Cinemark is advertising it as "Shown in HD" and they're charging $10. Some quick googling suggests theaters will be running it on Blu-ray. Is that true? Why not release it in full D-Cinema format? Why mess with Blu-ray? A blurb in The Baltimore Sun refers to it this way: quote: HD 'Wizard' A high-definition print of Victor Fleming's 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" will be shown in theaters at 7 p.m. Wednesday in honor of the film's 70th anniversary. This marks the first time the high-def version of the movie, with its vivid colors and remastered soundtrack, will be shown in movie theaters - and no matter how many times you've traveled down the yellow brick road with Dorothy, et al. before, you need to do it in a real movie theater at least once. Participating theaters in the Baltimore area include the AMC Columbia 14 (in IMAX), AMC Owings Mills 17, Regal Bel Air Cinema 14 and UA Snowden Square 14. Information: thewizardofoz.com. Or are theaters actually running it in "real" D-Cinema and this is a promotional thing for the Blu-ray home video release?  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 09-21-2009 04:05 PM                     Most of the similar NCN events are done by blu-ray but sent in over the internet and usually played on the individual theater's preshow projector (assuming that it supports HD of course).  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-21-2009 04:12 PM                        Official NCM Link for Wizard of Oz. The digital preshows at the Cinemark here are always so dim they're pathetic. The advertisers paying to be in that preshow are being ripped off. Wonder if the theater actually does something about that for this show.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-21-2009 04:22 PM                     There's a thread on this over in Yak. http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f8/t005918.html  |  IP: Logged

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