Transformers More Than Meets The Eye

I saw Transformers over the weekend. It was a fun movie. While watching the amazing CGI blending in with the real actors, I realized that I was watching something even more amazing.

Not the plot or script or acting.

The movie theater was the first digital projection movie theater that I have been to. And it was pretty groovy.

There were no cracks, tears, or pops from the worn out film on the screen. The picture was centered 100% perfectly on the screen filling it entirely without overflowing.

I was impressed.

The movie theater is in a small town that is doing some decent growing. There might be 20,000 people in the city. I live about thirty minutes away in a city of over 100,000 with many similarly sized cities all around.

We do not have any digital movie theaters around here. You would think that with the rates they are changing for both admission and concessions combined with the competition from the many movie theaters in the area, that some of them would have tried going digital just to differentiate themselves.

But then again, most of America seems to be behind the technology bell curve. Look at how bad the US companies do at providing broadband.