Hidefster: An article from the U.K’s Digit Magazine reports that Sony is rolling out a new digital cinema projector that can display theatrical movies at a resolution four times clearer than HDTV. Sony hopes that theater owners looking to lure high-def owners back to the movies will purchase the projector and its supporting system.
The company showcased the digital cinema projector earlier this month during the world premiere of Spiderman 3 in Tokyo. “The result (was) a spectacular image that’s a rank above what you might be used to seeing at the movies,” the magazine reported.
“The projector outputs an image with 4,096-x-2,160 pixels resolution, which is double that of HDTV both horizontally and vertically to result in more than 8 million pixels versus about 2 million on HDTV. ” (…)