The main picture uses one but the wings need four. The combined image is then fired out of five projectors. They are stitched together using the clever ScreenX software. Movies arrive at the cinema in two digital files (most cinemas no longer use reels of film): one for the standard film, the other for the sides or ‘wings’.
Only this isn’t just light – it’s proper video footage, composed, filmed and edited at the same time as the standard theatrical material and subject to the same CGI and colour grading efforts. It’s a similar idea to the Ambilight system on Philips TVs, which fill your peripheral vision with light. That’s a 270-degree field of view, designed to fill up your peripheral vision – theoretically making the picture more immersive. ScreenX presentations beam additional footage on the walls to the left and right. It displays the same film and format as what you’ll eventually see on Netflix.
How does three-screen viewing work? The middle one is like any cinema screen. I was invited to check it out ahead of its public opening today. The first one in the UK was just installed at the O2 in North Greenwich, London. ScreenX has arrived in the UK, and it’s a multi-projector cinema experience that has you looking at three screens instead of one.
SCREENX REVIEW MOVIE
If you’ve ever watched a movie and wondered what’s just out of frame, you’re in luck.
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