The D-BOX controller automatically recognizes the DVD that is playing and loads the appropriate motion codes. Codes for newly released films are sent to DBOX owners in monthly CD updates, and are also available for download on the Internet. The motion codes for the more than 400 films D-BOX has encoded thus far are stored on a hard drive inside the Kinetron Controller. A film may have as many as 5500 individual motion cues. The frequency and amplitude of the movement and vibration are then tweaked and perfectly synchronized with the film. He may watch a particular three-second segment dozens of times to find just the right movements and vibrations to create the impression that the viewer is experiencing the onscreen action. While sitting on a motion platform, the programmer watches the film and selects the combination of motion-simulation movements that best conveys what’s happening on the screen. It takes two to four weeks of full-time work to program one film. D-BOX employs six full-time “kinetic artists” who painstakingly program every motion down to the smallest detail. The second element of D-BOX, and where the real magic lies, is the “motion codes” that tell the motionsimulation systems how to move.Ĭreating the motion codes is a highly sophisticated process-one that distinguishes D-BOX from “shaker” chairs that merely vibrate when fed by a subwoofer signal. The actuators are driven by an outboard box about the size of a large DVD player called the Kinetron Controller. You can install conventional home-theater seating on DBOX’s motion platform (what the company calls the Odyssee system), or choose stand-alone Quest chairs that require no special installation. The first is the motion-simulation chairs containing the electro-mechanical actuators that make them move. The D-BOX system is composed of two elements. All you have to do is pop a DVD into any player, sit in a special D-BOX motion-simulation chair or in a conventional chair atop a D-BOX platform, and hang on for the ride. I definitely wouldn’t spend the extra money on D-Box, but that is my personal preference.In an industrial park just outside Montreal, a company called D-BOX is adding an entirely new dimension to the home-theater experience.ĭ-BOX has invented a technology that translates onscreen movement to motion in your viewing chair, adding a visceral thrill to movie watching. Any movement of the chair, I felt like I was focusing less on the movie as I was fixated on deciding if I should turn the motion off or keep it on. You are paying a premium to sit in these seats and I didn’t like the motion at all not matter which setting I used. Alternatively you can turn it off, but you are spending quite a bit on the tickets to experience this…unless you were the unwilling guest. You will feel every pan or zoom of the camera. My husband liked it at full blast, but I prefer to have it with very minimal movement as it felt more like someone was vigorously kicking my seat. Seat ControlsĮach seat has a control where you can have 4 levels of intensity to how intense you want the rumble. We chose the first row of D-Box smack in the middle and this is the view. The movie is coded, frame by frame, to create to matching motion effects that syncs with the movie and people either love it or hate it. ![]() The rest of the seats in the Ultra AVX theatre is dark blue. With every scene, you can feel the motion and on-screen action in your own seat. 30 Seats Inside the Theatreĭ-Box seats are in red and there are only 30 seats per theatre. The area where D-Box seats are at the Scotiabank Theatre in Downtown Vancouver is in their Ultra AVX area. They are around $25 regularly and $14 on a Tuesday, definitely not cheap but at least the seats are reserved ahead of time, but that is slowly becoming the norm. We came here on a Tuesday, when the prices are cheaper than the rest of the week to watch Avengers: Infinity War. ![]() ![]() One of the newer features at Cineplex is their D-Box immersive experience where the seats rumble and move with the movie.
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