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D-BOX scores deal to bring rumbling chairs to Mann Theatres
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Michael Zoldessy
on
January 23, 2009 at 3:50 pm
HOLLYWOOD, CA — A theater within the Mann Chinese 6 will be the first commercial theater chain screen to debut D-BOX motion code seats.
Ah, ha! So the rumors were true, after all. Just over three months after we heard that D-BOX was trying desperately to get its Motion Code technology into cinemas, we’re finally seeing the first deal with a commercial theater chain. Mann Theatres, the operators of the famous Mann Chinese 6 Theatre in Hollywood, has become the first to first to allow D-BOX seating to be installed, with the initial installation taking place in theatre six of the aforementioned multiplex.
Read more at EngadgetHD.
Comments (3)
Is this like Sensurround?
In a way, but you sit on it. Some Fox Blu-ray discs use this D-Box seat system, you download the info into the D-Box seat system. And you feel select film related things.
It’s a seat that moves so not quite.