Talk:Philips DP70

Notability / Justification for the page's existence
I'm going to jump right in here and give a pre-emptive defense about why one movie projector should deserve an encyclopedia article. Believe me, if you have any connection to the movie industry or film exhibition, it does. This is the projector centrally associated with theatrical 70mm exhibition in the format that existed from the fifties to the present, not counting IMAX. (Even IMAX uses the same 70mm-with-65mm-perforations on prints and 65mm negative begat by the TODD-AO process.) This is the projector often declared as the finest 70mm projector ever made, despite many models made by successors and other builders. Nearly fifty years since the last was built, not only are parts still available but even NEW technical developments and components have been developed for this model projector such as a finer optical slit for better analog sound and an integrated sound reader for Dolby Digital sound to be retrofitted into existing DP70/AA-II projectors. That alone speaks of the respect this machine holds within the industry. With film itself swiftly being pushed out, major components do deserve encyclopedic reference and this machine is richly deserving.Filmteknik (talk) 17:16, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. There appear to be no specific Wikipedia notability guidelines or criteria for specific models of industrial machinery, and therefore no immediate chapter and verse to cite as justification for having created the page. However, some more subject-specific justification would be that the DP70...


 * Introduced a fundamentally new media technology that became widespread, largely because the projector worked as intended and was accepted in the marketplace;
 * Succeeded commercially where a notable previous attempt (Fox Grandeur), which already has a Wikipedia page, failed;
 * It was instrumental in enabling a significant cultural form of the late twentieth century (widescreen movies) to achieve the impact that it did;
 * It introduced significant design and manufacturing innovations;
 * It won a major industry award;
 * Philips's major competitors all rushed to produce equivalents in response to its commercial success
 * It has remained in revenue earning use for the better part of a century (especially noteworthy in a relatively high-tech industry).

LDGE (talk) 05:17, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Article style is not Wikipedia style
Article should be reviewed for style.

"weighs 1,004 lbs - literally half a ton! ", "at the time of writing", etc. 80.29.135.143 (talk) 21:51, 22 July 2018 (UTC)