Dbox galaxy theater5/6/2023 ![]() “We thought that the movie experience would resonate well with the community and based on the feedback we’ve had from guests already, we were right!”Īlready within the first few weeks of the D-BOX in North Bay-conveniently in time for the box office hit, Rogue One, almost all of these seats have been sold out. “We’ve been expanding our network of theatres with enhanced movie experiences and the new installation at Galaxy Cinemas North Bay was part of the partnership with D-BOX,” said Sarah Van Lange, Director of Communications at Cineplex. Well, those big red seats are D-BOX Motions Seats, in case you were wondering, and they are part of the new string of movie-going-enhancements Cineplex has been adding to their theatres across the country-and North Bay just got its hands on them at the tail end of 2016. Bonnick describes the IMAX system as “stouter,” with less variation from seat to seat.If you’ve gone to the movies since the end of November, whether it was to catch the latest blockbuster, see a show during the holiday season or you’re just a film junkie who enjoys the silver screen, you may have noticed two rows of big red seats at Galaxy Cinemas and wondered what they were used for. So your field of view becomes much larger, from any seat in the theater.” Sitting in the front row as opposed to the back row in a traditional theater means your geometric relationship to the screen is wildly different. The second step is that the seating deck is stadium style, and it’s much closer to the screen. “We start off with a screen that goes from wall to wall, floor to ceiling as opposed to having – in most theaters – a frame around it. “We have a patented design for our theater geometry,” explains Brian Bonnick, chief technical officer for IMAX. When you factor IMAX, however, the variables aren’t exactly the same. Especially for a mainstream or Hollywood movie.” In a case like this, you’re not going to get the best experience no matter where you plunk your popcorn. Keeping the projector lamps up to spec, especially in a very big auditorium, is crucial. “That can absolutely affect the viewing experience. “Often, theaters will not regularly update their projector lamps, causing the brightness of the image to dim significantly over time,” says Muto. That’s a large part of what makes sitting in the front row so unpleasant for most people.Ī lot of it depends on factors beyond just seat location, which can be frustrating if your theater isn’t all that engaged in improving or monitoring the customer experience. You also don’t want to have too wide of a vertical viewing angle so you have to look too far up or down to see the whole screen. This way your eyes are more centralized and not straining to catch things on the very left or right side of the image on screen,” says Joe Muto, head projectionist for Nitehawk Cinemas. ![]() ![]() “I’ve always felt the obvious best spot to sit in a movie theater is in the center of the room, center with the screen. Does it exist?įor a standard movie theater with exit rows on the sides (as opposed to down the middle, as some older theaters have), the best spot is as close to dead center as you can get. The perfect focal point that maximizes your visual and aural experience. The existence of a worst, then, must suggest its opposite: The ideal seat. There is no question that they are the worst seats in any house. The front row is where the tardy are relegated, where those who have yet to master the chicanery of pre-orders and reserved seating must be exiled. Nearly everyone at one time or another has had to endure seeing a blockbuster movie from the POV of a milk mustache under the main character’s nose. ![]()
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