PS3 Powers Cinemas
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Sep 9, 2009 22:00 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Kara no Kyoukai, Marketing, PS3, Sendai, Technology
A chance observation by 2ch has led to the surprising discovery that some Japanese movie theatres are actually playing their films from PS3s.
The tale begins with a 2ch denizen’s visit to a Sendai cinema, where the audience’s viewing of Kara no Kyoukai was rudely interrupted by the appearance of an onscreen warning to recharge their controller.
Opinion was quickly split as to whether this was a fine advertisement of the PS3’s capabilities or a rather miserly move on the part of the cinema.
Soon the news spread through 2ch-watching blogs and was picked up by a site which apparently managed to confirm by way of Aniplex that the showing was indeed using a PS3, though not using Blu-ray as some had thought.
It transpires that full HD at 1920×1080 was being stored on the PS3 HDD, with the quality apparently indistinguishable from more typical projector-source hardware.
A number of cinemas are apparently using this method, though it might be hoped they are rather more careful about keeping their controllers charged…
Via Hachimaki.
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All I can really say is... I like both PS3 and Xbox360 and of course my PC. Not limiting myself is pretty swell :3
Well that was random
PS3>lol360
31.81 M > 23.97 M
So not, Anon.
That cinema should've bought a PS3 remote control instead of using the joypad.
i want to try to play ps3 in movie size screen...
so does that means there's cinema quality Kara no kyoukai floating around the internet?
When it can toast bread, ill think about getting one.
play me some porn...
If you live in Japan, there's are.
The more reason to get a PS3.
lol. the movie theater owners may have been stingy, but if the audience couldn't tell who gives a crap?
superior machine is SUPERIOR!!!
Superior movie-playing device, to be more specific. lol
couldn't they just turn of the controllers before playing the movie? or even use a BD remote? still nice to be able to that on your hardrive hopefully the ps4 includes all these features :)
LOLBOX360!
It only RRODs everytime!
LOLPS3!
It only FIRMWAREBRICKS/ YLOD every other time!
Lulz
"everytime" against "every other time"
second you should accept your defeat....
Or for te lulz... YOU FAILED EPIC
Thats why 360 sucks
... But the Xbox 360 does have a remote control. :/
"[T]hough it might be hoped they are rather more careful about keeping their controllers charged…"
Nice line, Artefact. d(^__^)b
That explains why MGS4 was a movie
indeed
haha, silly faggot. and when rising comes out on the trey, as well as the 3shity, ur gonna suck kojimas dick, and say, "sorry we made fun of mgs4, thank u". btw, that 'movie' won multiple game of the year awards. what? a movie won a gaming awards. btw, make sure all u 360 fanboys just got own by a girl. <3
but but......
both halo 3 and gears of war series sucked.....
first person shooter on console is like a retard trying to fuck a mail box... PC 4tw
Rofl your funny if you think your halo sh1t and gears of h1t can beat mgs4 and to all you xbox fanboys saying ps3 has nothin on it HAHAHA just you wait bitches AGENT, GOD OF WAR 3 ,GRAND TURISMO 5, and FINAL FANTASY 13 get the FUCK out of here xbox fanboy butthurt b1tches the game are coming to the ps3
retarded americans and their spelling rules when many of their words don't even follow the rules.
So the only thing you xbots can throw at us are Halo and Gays of war? That's it, nothing else? I feel sorry for you. No wonder xbots are so damn violent all the time.
No one gives two craps for Metal Gear Solid, it got savagely lambasted by both Halo 3 and both Gears of War games.
It's just that Kojima not being able to cover his ridiculous movie-game hybrids' cost with the overly shitty PS3 sales numbers and being forced to port 'em to the 360 in order to break free of the red digits is so much fun, dude...
ReiChama,
if you are even going as far as playing "CounterStrike" then it really shows how bad the 360 is.....
LOL! 360 butthurt asshole fanboys!
What's with all these about Halo and Gears of War, whats so fun about these games anyway. I tried it and never really felt the 'greatness' or 'attraction' to continued to play it. I rather go play Counter Strike on a PC in a LAN network... or I'd just go play MGS... VC or BlazBlue... >.>
listen, i hav a ps3, but just respect other systems. btw, dnt fool urself, you are guy.
you may suck dick and be a wuss, but no one believes you're any kind of girl. And IF you ARE a girl, then you should shoot yourself for being so unwanted
ouch ouch ouch but he's right u "sound" like a guy
"Theatre"... lol. Silly Europeans, spelling things how they don't sound.
Silly Americans have no idea how things are supposed to be pronounced.
"Nucular arsenal.."
English is a complicated language. Theatre is the proper English word, you Americans just simplified it because I have no idea why.
Is it that hard to remember that Theatre is pronounced how it is? If you cant, then how can you remember that "came" is pronounced "caym" and not "ka-me"? >.< Silly people.
Silly Americans, spelling things differently from the original French spelling.
Like every English speaker? No English dialect is spelling the way it sounds.
Yeah I actually wrote that awkwardly, I mean thea"tre" doesn't make a ER sound. That's why we Americans spell it correctly, because, along with other words they screwed up, we spell Theater with an ER. Because... oh I don't know, it makes sense?
YOU MistER have brought even more shame to AmERica than it already had.
OthER example would be starting a war with anothER country....
American English is totally horrible.
Though they sound "most likely correct", its because they do not understand the correct pronunciation of the letters when they are combined.
So you feeling good now? Congratulations!
It's called 'bastardisation'.
what the fuck is 2ch?
your mum
You know before you use the F word, use the "G" word. It saves you, me and the others time.
In fact the "W" word gives a reasonable enough explanation.
Rofl, imagine playing PS3 games at a movie threatre. BIG SCREEN FTW!
With this crappy res and alliasing on screen ?? Not really. I dont want to be blinded for life ;] .
The screen is too big, yah. Resolution isnt high enough :/ Of course itll look crappy. Of course, you are kinda supposed to be quite far awayfrom the screen...
Sez u....
Digital Cinema really is beneficial, especially for independent filmmakers who can buy semipro 720p cameras. There has been a surge of such independent films in my country (actual quality of story notwithstanding)
Now it's been proven that your average above-average-income Joe who has a PS3, an Onkyo receiver and a projector can replicate the experience.
What's funny though is that the digital cinemas here actually charge 100% more than analog cinemas for the same viewing experience, touting OMFG All-Digital cinema. I'd rather watch a conventional 35mm with scratches -- now THAT actually feels like watching a movie, which cannot be replicated at home.
Well the stand-alone cinemas like in the 50s and 60s have long since shuttered... the only cinema operators now are the malls. And with people finding the value and convenience in watching digital movies at home, the operators decided to use the excess capacity for film festivals sponsored by the EU, the US, Japan, China, or any other first-world or industrial conglomerate who sees value in promoting their culture and values upon hapless impressionable 3rd world people.
dear sir you forgot the sound. you need also some decent audio equipment unless you are going back to the era of silent movies. not to mention room with acceptable acoustics, seats, screen etc etc. its not so easy as you think.
We hooked up a Dreamcast on the Baltimore Science Center's IMAX when I was younger, since my friend's dad worked the theater. Best hour of my life. Sonic Adventure, Virtual On: OT, and Soul Calibur.
He probably got fired afterwards...
... ANON I F**KING HATE YOU RIGHT NOW I'M BURNING WITH SO MUCH ENVY YOU, YOU LITTLE--!!!!!
Anon you made me laugh hardly ^^
I almost feel like visiting 2ch....
Lucky little bastard aren't you <_<
Sendai cinema mean mini cinema or... ?
Sendai is a city in Miyagi Prefecture, in northern Honshu. Sendai is known for its Tanabata festival, which is the largest one in Japan (I guess also the world), and now for its PS3 cinemas.
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?
Busy playing PS3. =P
God likes dreamcast you zidiot
and busy flaming microsoft.
Burning alive.
Hilarious and sad at the same time.
nice, I'd like to play ps3 in cinema, that would be cool, and the sound, hardcore!
that would be disturbing if the one the one who's playing is a retard. I'm not pertaining to you anon, so don't worry.
+1
*waits for 360 fanboys to start hating*
*waits for PS3 fanboys to stop trying to create arguments*
PS3 runs movies well. We all knew that man/woman.
Its been like that since PS2. No surprise here :/
*Starts hating*
ps3 is SUCK....no no i was joke only..
i like ps3 ^^
I hate both PS 3 and Xbox 360...
Why don't people just buy PlayBox? It has the best game ever "Malibu most Wanted"...
Actually, it was called a "GameCast".
You better not be relating in any way the glorious Dreamcast with the GCN fail-cluster, Anon...
So that explains why all the ps3 were sold out a couple of weeks back
PS3 slim is so cheap
compare to those expensive blueray players
^ kids these days living in an ignorant blissful world.
a projector may cost you several $k
a PS3 slim costs $300
so the PS3 slim has a built in projector now?
yeah, it does have a projector now and I won't get surprised if ps3 will one day be used in businesses too.
owned
So you haven't read the article yet by now?
It does.
Blu-Ray FTW!!
Shame you fail at reading, "though not using Blu-ray as some had thought."
FTW = Fucks The Watch
It usually means "For the win". It used to stand for "Fuck the world".
"FTW" doesn't mean you think it means.
are you an idiot? ps3's use blue-ray technology they just didn't use it for playing the movies at the theater.
get your facts straight
Dat's wut he/she said: "Blu-Ray FTW", meaning he's pissed off due to the fact that PS3 don't use any Blu-Ray...
It can mean "What the Fuck" if you're dyslexic.
Fuck the wat?
and it can mean "the fuck what" if you're a retard
What the fuck?
This is such a fucking PS3 fanboy site it's sickening.
Then why the hell are you here? Go find your xbot site like VGchartz
I have it on good knowledge that Artefact doesn't care one way or another - he just enjoys pitting the xbox fags against the playstation fags
As someone who doesn't really care about consoles but hears way too much shit about them on the internet, the xbox sounds like quite the heaping pile of fail.
I don't buy consoles though, so what do I know right?
You should pay attention then.
The latest articles say the new xbox hardare has a failure rate of 1%, while the PS3 is maintaining a 10% failure rate. Which means now PS3 hardware fails 10x more than XBox. PS3 fans, just give Microsoft time to once again fuck up things... they are good at that.
Having working in that industry before. I got rather pissed when unfavorable articles get thrown out because THEY are paying huge sums to keep them out from public eyes.
Have you paid attention to the other post by some other users on what caused the RRoD to happen so much on the 360? There you know its impossible for the 1% error rate to happen.
And we know its true that 1% is advertisement because the demo sets out at shopping malls and game shops usually goes down in a few months and its obviously RRoD.
The reason this site has more PS3 fans is because most of the 360 fans are busy T-bagging each other in American FPS's.
SOrry xbots, but everytime there's a 360 news article, it has something to do with RROD or hardware going in smoke running an ME2 demo at gamescom. You know what else? Obama disses the xbox, which some think is actually a praise since in America xbox is synonymous to video games. But what do you xbots think instead? Oh... Obama's a sony fanboy. You have yourselves to blame for these kinds of articles.
This is such a fucking Japan fanboy site it's sickening.
and you're nothing but a sickening anon who knows any shit about how good sankaku complex is. get the fuck out of this for this is no place for fucking faggots like you.
This is an asian-centric site you know and the playstation is killing x-box there
Perhaps it would provide a more positive opinion of the 360 if it did not suck so much.
fuckin nice! couldn't have said it better myself
haha go like you balls or something...
or even worse go play on your 360 till it gets the RRoD (wich might already happend to you guys several times before...)
just because the xbox cant do that
if you dont like the site fuck off with your shitty console
*sarcasm on*
zomg X square circle got halo zomg!!! nothing beats halo!!!!!!!
*sarcasm off*
to anon at 518
ps3's just don't have as many games as the xbox it doesn't mean they suck at them.
what was the last good xbox only game that came out?
NUFF said
Better than Fag-Box that failed with ROD before people can even do anything with it ;p
Ps3 suck in games then they using it in cinemas ;].
dont go on then dumb shit
Well then get some interesting 360 news to balance it out.
There's plenty of Xbox 360 coverage and Sony-critical news here, it's just that people automatically filter it out to suit their alignment.
RROD occurs while a 360 is being used in the US cinema.
That would be interesting enough!
Lols +1
That would be hilarious if the PS3 has been found to owned not only the 360 in gaming capabilities but also challenge the traditional entertainment devices at home.