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DaveWeLike bought the Roku Smart Soundbar and Roku Wireless Subwoofer to experiment with at home. The Smart Soundbar audio is very clear and loud. I’d say it might be too loud even at low volume. It may overpower the Roku Wireless Subwoofer bass. It would be nice for Roku to offer more in-depth treble and bass controls.
If you live in Southern California you may be seeing me on a billboard near you! A couple months ago I got to work with SoCalGas and become the sun for their solar power campaign.
Below are the two commercials where I heat up water with the power of my rays.
Find out more about solar water heating for your home or business.
Throughout my years of movie going, I’ve experienced many gimmicks. Generally, they’re fun reasons to stop watching Netflix and head down to my local theater. Have these gimmicks ever saved a movie from being terrible? No. But at least they’ve given me fun and lasting memories.
At Comic Con in Hall H I experienced my first three screen movies. However these experiences were baked around trailers/previews. It was breathtaking to see this style added to trailers so when I heard Captain Marvel offered such a treat I jumped at it.
The format is called ScreenX and it offers a 270 degree view of a film. It’s like VR without the headset. The front screen projects the film while the sides offer peripheral views. The side screens feel stretched, blurred, and darker than the front screen. I guess this style helps you focus on the front screen.
Specifically for Captain Marvel not all scenes had this format. The vast majority of the film is without the side screens. So every now and then the side screens turn on and off. This is where the vast distraction comes from. If the side screens always projected video I might be able to focus on the front movie screen more so.
I do think that this format is much better than 3D. Not having to wear heavy glasses only to see blurry images is a massive plus.
My hopes would be that in future maybe the side screens could offer more valuable footage than what Captain Marvel did. Also it would be very cool to mix in some D-BOX seats so the seats move with the film. That combo of ScreenX with D-BOX would be something very special.
For now ScreenX is a promising format, and I hope more movies support adding extra content to the side screens for the full-length of the film.
DaveWeLike was watching The Simpsons Season 30 Episode 11 when The Simpsons ordered from his Amazon Alexa and somehow Dave got burned by Alexa.