Whether or not it’s the most effective premium cinema format out there’s up for debate, nevertheless it’s unquestionably a very good factor that Vue EPIC employs Barco and Dolby expertise to offer UK and European cinemagoers extra premium choices.
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Vue, the UK and European cinema chain, is celebrating reaching a sequence of ‘EPIC’ milestones – and has unveiled a brand new sizzle video to have fun.
It’s been one 12 months since Vue unveiled its first EPIC premium-large-format display, which brings collectively HDR by Barco projection and Dolby Atmos audio right into a premium audiovisual bundle that initiatives onto the auditorium with the biggest display at every Vue location.
On the one-year mark, Vue can also be celebrating that it has now rolled out 15 EPIC screens throughout 14 websites (with two facet by facet within the London West Finish). It mentioned that these screens have delivered 400,000 admissions, with their recognition indicated by repeat visits occurring at twice the speed of different premium massive format experiences throughout Vue’s circuit. The tempo of the rollout appears robust, with Vue mentioned that it’s aiming for greater than 60 EPIC screens throughout Vue’s property.
To mark the event, Vue has launched a brand new sizzle reel, which does a pleasant job of pulling again the curtain to indicate how the visible results in of the HDR by Barco sting, shot by 1983 Artistic, had been achieved.
I reviewed the primary EPIC display, which was opened in Nottingham, UK, in late July 2025 and the newest is in Basildon, Essex, UK. That is notable for being the UK’s first dual-laser HDR by Barco system, following on from the dual-laser Vue EPIC in Rozzano, Italy. Whereas its rival Dolby Cinema system is all dual-laser, most HDR by Barco programs depend on only a single laser system, with Vue telling Forbes that it solely employs dual-laser for screens which might be above 18 metres broad.
In an interview with Vue CEO Tim Richards after the Nottingham launch, the cinema chain boss espoused EPIC as superior to all rivals. He had particularly robust phrases for the premium format chief IMAX, describing it as “a advertising firm now and never a expertise firm”.