4-D movies: Next big thing for U.S. theaters?
CJ Group of South Korea hopes to furnish nearly 200 U.S. movie theaters with equipment that will move seats, emit scents and perform other special effects.
Theodore Kim -- chief operating officer of the Los Angeles lab of theater operator CJ 4DPlex -- is hit with fog, one of the special effects the company creates for its "4-D" moviegoing experience. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
As the giant spaceship crashes into the mysterious planet, the seats inside the movie theater heave back and forth and rumble like an earthquake.
"Back ticklers" in the seats thump as an astronaut dodges fireballs and rolls on the ground. A strobe light flashes and huge fans expel gusts of air reeking of smoke and gunpowder.
In the latest bid to attract moviegoers back to multiplexes, where 3-D -- featured in hits such as "The Avengers" and"Men in Black 3"-- is already the norm, technology and entertainment companies are pushing a new system known as 4-D.
At the leading edge of the technology is South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, which operates Asia's largest theater chain and has set up a laboratory near Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood to demonstrate and market its 4DX system.
The 4-D experience is wowing fans in South Korea, Thailand and Mexico, where CJ Group has 29 specialty theaters that regularly screen big Hollywood titles such as"Avatar,""Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" and"Prometheus," which featured the crashing spaceship.
Now CJ Group is close to finalizing a deal with a nationwide
Here's how to check your computer for the DNS Changer Malware
As many as 64,000 Americans' computers may still be affected by malware that will cause them to lose Internet service come Monday, so if you haven't already, make sure you aren't among them.There's various ways to test your computer for the DNS Changer Malware, and we've included a few in this post. But remember, this applies only to Windows users, so if your computer has an apple logo with a bite taken out of it, you're fine.
If you want to go the most official route possible, head to the FBI's site. With the FBI, you know you're dealing with the most trusted source on this matter -- it's the agency that caught the people who began this whole madness -- but its method of checking is also a bit time consuming.
If you want something simpler, you can also check your computer at www.dns-ok.us/. The FBI actually links to this site as well, so you know it's trustworthy too. If your computer is clean, you'll get a big green image, and if it's not, you'll get a red screen. The only issue with that site is that sometimes it doesn't work. I've tried it three times on two computers, but it worked only once.
If you need to try another site, McAfee has set up this site too. It seems to work, and it's simple. If you're all clear, McAfee will even congratulate you.
York County abandons ambulance dispatch plan
York County officials have abandoned a controversial plan to ask Piedmont Medical Center to dispatch ambulances for the county, including non-profit rescue squads which compete with the for-profit hospital for customers.The plan would have ended the county’s existing dispatch system, which sends two ambulances to emergency calls, leading to potentially dangerous competition, county leaders and state officials have said.
The county hopes to have a new dispatch system in place by September, said County Manager Jim Baker.
That system will use GPS to locate ambulances so that dispatchers can identify which one is closest to a call and dispatch it.
2 dead, 1 injured in Oconee County murder-suicide
WESTMINSTER, S.C. An Oconee County man is dead after a murder-suicide that also killed an 11-year-old girl and injured the man's wife.Oconee County coroner Karl Addis says the 34-year-old man shot his wife and her daughter, then shot himself Saturday night. The wife was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital's trauma center.
Shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday, emergency dispatchers received a call from a man who said he had shot his family. Five minutes later, a woman called, saying she and her daughter had been shot and her husband had shot himself at a home near Westminster.
Spike Lee Takes On The Black Church In “Red Hook Summer” [TRAILER]
He’s back! Hollywood’s favorite bad boy, Spike Lee, is set to release his newest project, “Red Hook Summer” later this summer.
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