{"id":1163612,"date":"2023-07-21T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T18:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1163612"},"modified":"2023-07-21T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T18:23:25","slug":"imax-emulates-palmpilot-software-to-power-oppenheimers-70-mm-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1163612","title":{"rendered":"IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer\u2019s 70 mm release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer<\/em>. (credit: IMAx\/Universal Picture\/YouTube<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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It’s a big week for IMAX, which has been promoting today’s release of Oppenheimer<\/em>. It’s a particularly big deal for IMAX because the film is the first to get a 70 mm IMAX release since 2020’s Tenet<\/em>. So, you could understand why the company took to social media to boast of the size and magnitude of running the film, which is said<\/a> to be 11 miles long and 600 pounds. But in addition to the blockbuster IMAX release is something that hasn’t been a showstopper in ages: a PDA.<\/p>\n

And you can’t discuss personal digital assistants (PDAs) without mentioning PalmPilots. The Palm computing devices were once the epitome of handheld technological organization. But Palm Computing, which endured a series of acquisitions before HP sunset the brand<\/a> in 2011, made other devices besides PalmPilots. One of those is the Palm m130, which is apparently IMAX projectionists’ ideal controller for running 70 mm film.<\/p>\n

As shown in IMAX’s TikTok video below, the 70 mm print for Oppenheimer<\/em> is so large that they had to extend their film platter. That’s fascinating and all, but so is the emulated 2002 PDA apparently running things:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer. (credit: IMAx\/Universal Picture\/YouTube) It’s a big week for IMAX, which has been promoting today’s release of Oppenheimer. It’s a particularly big deal for IMAX because the film is the first to get a 70 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1163612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}