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The processes are classified according to their market and to the diameter of the dome
The spectacular attraction (dome superior to 20 metres): the OMNIMAX constitutes the spectacle by him even.
Example completes of the American pragmatism. The process OMNIMAX, off_axis, is in theory unsatisfactory.
Rooms throw(plan) indiféremment of the "flat" films IMAX and "spherical" on the same screen.
But that walks(works)! For twenty years rooms are in service, films are turned (mainly of the documentary type).
His(her,its) vocation of attraction is posted(shown), rooms are generally situated in "Sciences Centers" of the type Futuroscope.
The process is not probably profitable by him even (anybody amounts known) outside the science parks which accommodate him(it).
However, in time, he could eventually extend beyond(eventually overflow) on the market spectacle, by means of Imax and now of Imax3D.
The spectacle (dome between 10 and 20 metres): PANRAMA
The declared objective is to succeed of the traditional cinema by rooms situated in city.
The exploitation of the process does not rest(base) any more on its spectacular aspect (of short duration) but on the thrown(planned) films.
It supposes the fast constitution of an important park of films.
Based initially on one the excellent idea to use the film 35mm standard,
thus the existing infrastructure, the PANRAMA was conceived well to reach(affect) this objective.
Nevertheless, in spite of its theoretical qualities, the PANRAMA did not manage to be imperative(to lead).
The reasons are not really clarified.
Technical reasons: image missing solidity, contrast, definition?
Strategic reasons: the presence of the OMNIMAX, considered wrongly as a concurent,
has can be falsified the strategy of development of the PANRAMA?
At least, today, the market of the spherical spectacle always is to be taken.
The institutional (dome subordinates in 10 metres): specific applications
The institutional argentique:
the less heavy PANRAMA of application than the OMNIMAX and restoring a more exact image (the projector is placed in the center of the sphere) resumes the advantage.
But I ignore if there is current use.
Institutional numeric(digital): ELUMENS
This American company(society) uses the video-projector and the numeric(digital) image.
She proposes a range of post(post office) of projection with domes of 1.5, 3, 4 and 5 metres in diameter.
At present limited by the capacities of the numeric(digital) image.
These evolving very fast, we can bet that screens will grow and can reach(affect) the general public and the domain of the spectacle.
To note that the biggest model proposed by ELUMENS ( oblique half-sphere 5 metres in diameter) looks like the PANRAMA a lot.
The Cinema at home (dome subordinates in 3 metres): consumer rate
The ELUMENS company covers technically déja this market; but his(her,its) rates are unsuitable.
The home cinema needs domes diameters of which are understood(included) between 1,5 metres ( personal post) and 3 metres ( domestic post).
With the domestic domes, we fall again into the problem of the spectacle, the déja faced unsuccessfully by the PANRAMA.
In family we look at films.
No film, no domestic dome.
The personal post stays
He can develop without films if we consider it either as a spectacle, but as a ring road(peripheral) of the personal computer.
The image developed a lot on PC well before the appearance of the DVD and the pirated DivX.
On my first one Apple-II my children crossed(spent) hours to be played.
Nevertheless the image was very poor. Since she(it) made big progress.
We saw a synthetic person of game(set), Lara Croft, embodied then in a film by an actress in flesh and in bone.
It is enough to walk on Web among the creators of images 3D to notice that there is a big number of consomateurs of images PC.
It seems to me that the personal domes can develop without films.
The existence of a sufficient(self-important) number of domes entrainera the manufacture of films.
From amateurs' short films.
This on condition that it is possible to have a cheap personal post.
This led(drove) me to try to define that could be such a post.