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[Aaron Gerow]

On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:49 PM, <drainer at mpinet.net> wrote:

> By the way did you watch it in 3-D?

I thought I should mention the technical glitches we experienced. We  
saw it in Sapporo in 3-D and the first half of the movie was fine.  
Then, suddenly, the film stopped and vibrated and gave off a loud  
sound. It started again but stopped within 5 or so seconds. That  
repeated a couple of times until they seemed to get it started again.  
But ten minutes later it happened again. It must have happened about 7  
or 8 times during the last half of the film. We asked the manager (who  
gave us free tickets--for non 3-D films, by the way) what happened,  
and he said the relay device between the hard disk and the projector  
was overloading.

Has anyone experienced this with digital 3-D projection? In an ironic  
way, it reminded me of an old analog record skipping. I kind of liked  
seeing this technological film about abandoning technology failing in  
its technology.

Aaron Gerow
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