![]() You now have an expected width of screen. You know the hypoteneuse (diagonal) and you know the aspect ratio (16x9) so can go from there. ![]() If you are basing your screen size on diagonal measurement you will need to use Pythagorean theorem to solve for the height and width. Well this is it! Time to pull out trigometry and Pythagorean theorem. Remember back in junior high and high school when you scoffed at algebra and geometry, but were warned by your teachers it would come in handy some day. It all comes down to balancing between sitting close enough to achieve the proper scale so an image looks sufficiently big and involving, yet not so close that it's overwhelming, causes eye fatigue, or results in the image structure being visible (ie. There is another specification for vertical location to define a vertical field of vision (I believe this is optimally around 15%). SMPTE indicates the screen should occupy no less than 30 degrees of your field of view, whereas THX endorses 36 degrees. It's a simplified means of defining a recommended field of vision. If I recall from the document referenced above it uses the basic reference point of 1.5 times screen width. For Avatar: The Way of Water, this is the best cinematic experience you can get.There's a site out there (was sure I had the link but can't find it) that will do the math for you. There are 250 Dolby Cinemas worldwide, compared to 1,500 IMAX screens, so if you live in proximity to one, consider yourself lucky. Dolby 3D is brighter and clearer than IMAX 3D as well, and considering Dolby is partnered with James Cameron’s production company Lightstorm Entertainment, it’s a safe bet that Dolby Cinema 3D is going to give you the most accurate experience to the director’s vision.ĭolby Cinema is only available at AMC, and not every Dolby screen is equipped for Dolby 3D. For Avatar, you’ll get to see the film exactly as it was intended: 3D, 4K, HFR, and HDR (the latter of which IMAX can’t do). Dolby screens all feature Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, widely considered the new standard for premium image and audio. Many swear by IMAX, but if you want the highest quality and most consistent experience, you want Dolby Cinema 3D. There hasn’t been a gigantic, ridiculously expensive movie like this since Avengers: Endgame, and a lot of people, myself included, want to celebrate the occasion by seeing it on the best screen possible. The Way of Water is the cinematic event of the year, maybe the decade, and certainly since the start of the pandemic. I’ve seen it and I can tell you first-hand that there’s no bad way to watch Avatar, but when Jim Cameron says “go see it on the biggest screen you can find,” he’s not just blowing smoke. This phenomenon didn’t start during the pandemic, but I’m going to go out on a limb and guess there’s a lot of people out there who are paying attention to movie theaters for the first time in a long time thanks to Avatar. Gas costs twice as much, the McRib is canceled, and there’s too many types of goddamn movie screens. Things have changed since I went into a semi-permanent goblin mode. When the pandemic started in 2019 I went home, put on my pajamas, downloaded Uber Eats, sat down in my gaming chair, and stayed there until this Monday when I went to see Avatar: The Way of Water.
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