R(ough) D(igital) X(perience)

Navin, Vidya, Shanthi and I went to Sathyam Theatre to see "Revenge of the Sith" yesterday. The movie was a grand visual spectacle and as dark and foreboding as the reviews mentioned.

The digital projection system installed at the theatre delivered rich sound and crystal clear pictures...whenever it was working, that is ! Our movie viewing was marred by the occurence of a couple of technical snags, the second one lasting almost 15mins just as Master Windu and Emperor Palpatine were wrapping up their duel.

As Navin and I went out into the lobby to find out what was happening, we found a small group of people talking to the theatre management folks. They informed us that the outages were due to power failure compounded with a malfunctioning UPS.

Apparently, the digital projection system takes about 20mins to "reboot", which was what happened during the second time we lost power. We were further informed that the digital system had been tested for about a month before it went mainstream on May 20. We were assured that these wrinkles in the system would soon be ironed out.

I have high regards for the management of Sathyam Theatres, after they managed to locate(at 2am !) a mobile phone that I lost in their premises, and hope that they do deliver a Real Digital Xperience soon !