Air Force Museum Theater installs a giant screen with the Qube True 3DTM 4K system

Digital cinema manufacturer Qube Cinema and integrator D3D Cinema have installed a giant screen with the True 3DTM 4K system in the Air Force Museum Theater, the largest and oldest in the world dedicated to military aviation.

Qube Cinema has collaborated again with D3D Cinema to install its True 3DTM 4K system in the newly renovated Air Force Museum Theater (AFMT) located in Dayton, in the southwest of the North American city of Ohio.

El museo Air Force Museum Theater (AFMT) de Dayton (Ohio), recently renovated, has made a profound conversion to the digital environment with the installation in its theater, with capacity for four hundred seats, of a giant screen 24,3 tall by 18 meters in its atrium that functions as a coordination center for the entire museum.

As the head of theater operations explains, Mary Bruggeman, “the theater-museum was twenty-two years old and needed a profound update, so we carried out a complete renovation of the infrastructure, including new seats, as well as the addition of a large stage for presentations and a large screen”.

This new giant screen, the largest yet installed in southwest Ohio, required a current and digital audiovisual format, “in line with the digital entertainment that is currently in demand, so we had to modernize ourselves from the movie 70 mm. to 3D digital technology”, Bruggeman points out..

The solution for this came from Qube technology: “When we saw what could be done with this system, We decided that it would be part of the future of the theater -remembers this person in charge-. The Qube XP-I server and Xi 4K IMB will take us towards that future, "It gives us access to higher frame rate speed and true 4K 3D playback that exceeds industry standards.".

The project, made by system integrator D3D Cinema, It consists of a Qube Cinema XP-I server and two Qube Xi 4K IMB embedded in two 4K projectors from the Belgian firm Barco, Masterimage 3D and high-quality surround sound system 7.1 + complete with additional museum speakers. D3D Cinema has customized the sound system and devices for the visually impaired and with subtitles for the hearing impaired.

For Burggeman, “This system offers us great flexibility and a better economic model for the museum, which allows us to use the income generated by the theater in our educational programs; with a large list of documentaries not available in film format to explain the history of aviation and support the museum's mission”.

Visitors to this military aviation museum, the largest and oldest in the world, can now enjoy stunning real 3D 4K digital images on the giant screen “with a system that is much easier for staff to use.”, which improves operations. Besides, the systems 15/70 The cinema machines we had before were expensive and heavy to transport and handle.. Now I can hold a DCP with one hand that costs less than a tenth of the, in addition to improving the quality and visual experience”.

This museum, which is part of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, receives more than 1,2 million visitors a year, It has a permanent collection of airplanes, spaceships and missiles, to which is added the Memorial Park, with nearly six hundred monuments surrounding the site and attracting war veterans, which represent almost a third of the museum's visitors.