1 Inception $43.5M/$144M
2 Salt $36.5M
3 Despicable Me $24.1M/$162M
4 The Sorcerer's Apprentice $9.69M/$42.6M
5 Toy Story 3 $9.03M/$380M
6 Ramona and Beezus $8M
7 Grown Ups $7.6M/$142M
8 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse $7.03M/$280M
9 The Last Airbender $4.17M/$123M
10 Predators $2.85M/$46.6M
Sony 4K Digital Cinema
Experience The Difference
4K delivers precisely four times the pixels of 2K
2K vs. 4K resolution in the movie theater
Assuming appropriate content and a 2K projector that’s in focus, the 2K shortfall can create a problem for viewers in contemporary stadium seating theaters. At practical viewing distances, the drawbacks of 2K presentation will be visible. These limitations can include the visibility of individual pixels, which can undermine the illusion of reality. Stairstep “jaggies” can add unwanted texture to diagonal lines in the picture. And gaps between pixels can put a fine mesh of black lines across the entire image, as if the picture were viewed through a screen door. (And if a projectionist were to deliberately put a 2K projector out of focus to conceal these artifacts, the picture would lose even more detail.)
Threshhold of visibility for 2K pixels
Viewers sitting closer that 2.30 Picture Heights can see a benefit to 4K. Viewers sitting farther than 2.30 Picture heights will see no benefit. If you pace off 2.30 Picture Heights in the sample 298-seat auditorium, you’ll find that audience members in only the last four out of 13 rows are at a distance potentially satisfied by 2K.
