Kodak Licenses Projection Patents to IMAX

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Eastman Kodak has had a bad year with its stock falling 77% and facing bankruptcy, but don’t count Kodak out just yet: The company holds title to an estimated $3 Billion in digital-imaging patents and just completed a deal with IMAX worth $10 million upfront plus royalties. The deal works well for both companies. IMAX can now work with larger screen capacities and Kodak get a much needed cash infusion.

Kodak’s technology is expected to illuminate screens as large as 100 feet and dome theaters with a brightness and clarity not currently available, Imax said.
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Just ironic how these big name companies of yesteryear have hit new lows. Thank god for patents though, I guess.
 
Watched a movie on an IMAX once. Not impressed. There is such a thing as "Too Big".
 
the-one1 said:
Watched a movie on an IMAX once. Not impressed. There is such a thing as "Too Big".
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How anyone could be unimpressed with good actual imax footage is beyond me.

The opening scene of The Dark Knight is the most impressing thing I've ever seen.
 
I would not want to be any ceo or board member of kodak. I can't think of a single product they could produce that would catch on with the public. It would have to be something mind boggling innovative. It's a sinking ship, almost solely based on a dying industry.

The only thing i could muster creatively is if they had, in the beginning, put their camera sensors and technology into smartphones. That train has past.
 
TheCAD said:
How anyone could be unimpressed with good actual imax footage is beyond me.

The opening scene of The Dark Knight is the most impressing thing I've ever seen.
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The hospital explosion scene was also mostly imax. If you got the iTunes HD version (I think it was HD, lol), the aspect ratio actually changes during parts of that scene that were shot in imax :eek:
 
I haven't seen a IMAX film movie in a long time. Film is better suited for explosions than digital, due to handful of drawbacks with image sensors, often hard to deal with.
 
jeremyshaw said:
The hospital explosion scene was also mostly imax. If you got the iTunes HD version (I think it was HD, lol), the aspect ratio actually changes during parts of that scene that were shot in imax :eek:
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Also, don't forget the Tokyo sequence.
 
If theaters try to charge even more than the ungodly amount they currently demand, they can be sure that I'll stay far away.
 
TheCAD said:
How anyone could be unimpressed with good actual imax footage is beyond me.

The opening scene of The Dark Knight is the most impressing thing I've ever seen.
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+1. I've only ever watched two movies in IMAX. Dark Knight on a standard (albeit larger) screen and it was awesome. You forgot to mention the night scene where he flies in too, that was awesome in IMAX. The other movie I watched was in a dome IMAX, it was Star Trek and it wasn't a great experience. The panels they used had easy to see lines in bright scenes and it was curved and way to big to watch a motion picture on. The domes are perfect for space, and underwater IMAX films but not for feature films.
 
TheCAD said:
How anyone could be unimpressed with good actual imax footage is beyond me.

The opening scene of The Dark Knight is the most impressing thing I've ever seen.
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Depends on how you view it. If it's OMNIMAX (dome) then yes it's impressive, but DMR, at least in my opinion depends on where you are sitting. Even worse is what I call fakemax which is just a retrofit done to a traditional cinema screen. Better than 35mm yes, but not the real thing.
 
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