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Apple Studio Display 17 (ADC): Theater Mode Description and Use

  • Last Modified: January 11, 2004
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This article describes Theater Mode on the Apple Studio Display 17 (ADC).
Theater Mode is a technology of the Apple Studio Display 17 (ADC), and works with Apple's media playing software: QuickTime Player, iMovie, and Apple DVD Player. It enhances the brightness and contrast of video content that is presented at full screen size. Theater Mode produces a more lifelike image by increasing brightness up to three times and improving color saturation.

The versions of software that enable Theater Mode on the Apple Studio Display 17 (ADC) are:

  • QuickTime version 4.1.2 and later
  • Apple DVD Player version 2.2.1 and later
  • iMovie 2.0 and later

Theater Mode is enabled automatically in these applications. You may disable Theater Mode in the Monitors control panel as shown in Figure 1.



Figure 1 Theater Mode Preferences

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