In a rather mixed bag of news, Regal contiues the digital conversion of it's theater's and downtown Bethesda Maryland is the latest in the DC metropolitan area! Two of the largest auditoriums there are finally made over; # 2 and #10 (as well as #4). #10 is a great auditorium as it once featured Kodak's now defunct 6-channel CDS 'Cinema Digital Sound' (the precursor to Dolby Digital, DTS, and SDDS digital sound) - 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day' was killer! The screens are also worthy since they feature side masking and when displaying a scope 2.35 widescreen film really fills up the wall horizontally to great effect.
Unfortunately... according to management none of the four screens are equipped to playback the new 7.1 discrete soundsystem where four channels of sound are distributed to the rear of the listener/filmgoer - apparently Regal found that Gallery Place was worthy, yet Bethesda, nope! [grrrrrr] - oh well, can't have it all. This is great news since there are a number of 3D movies that aren't being seen at my neighborhood AMC, since only one screena at Mazza is equipped as such.
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