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* Using DTS technology, Jurassic Park was the first movie to get a wide rollout of digital sound. Cineplex theatres retrofitted with the new technology included the York, Varsity, Eaton Centre, and Fairview. | * Using DTS technology, Jurassic Park was the first movie to get a wide rollout of digital sound. Cineplex theatres retrofitted with the new technology included the York, Varsity, Eaton Centre, and Fairview. | ||
* Dolby Digitial has a smaller rollout with Aladdin the year before in one Famous Players theatre, and would take a few years to catch up to DTS saturation levels amongst theatres. | * Dolby Digitial has a smaller rollout with Aladdin the year before in one Famous Players theatre, and would take a few years to catch up to DTS saturation levels amongst theatres. | ||
− | * Having digital sound on 35mm prints made 70mm blowups with magnetic sound redundant, so Toronto never returned to the peak 1990 level of 70mm exhibition, which is unfortunate because 70mm projection generally had stricter quality control standards in theatres than 35mm projection. Being a 35mm DTS release, Jurassic Park was | + | * Having digital sound on 35mm prints made 70mm blowups with magnetic sound redundant, so Toronto never returned to the peak 1990 level of 70mm exhibition, which is unfortunate because 70mm projection generally had stricter quality control standards in theatres than 35mm projection. Being a 35mm DTS release, Jurassic Park was robbed of an "event" status by not getting a 70mm release in Toronto as earlier Steven Spielberg blockbusters did like Close Encounters, the Indiana Jones trilogy and E.T. |
== - 1997 [PROFILE] Heritage Minutes: Nat Taylor == | == - 1997 [PROFILE] Heritage Minutes: Nat Taylor == |