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  1. Re:Useless waste of processing power by ytseschew · · Score: 1 · on Positive Reviews For Nvidia' GeForce 6800 Ultra
    Why do you think that TV and Movies are ideal when shot at 30 fps (actually it's 24 fps for movies)?? Next time you watch a movie when a bus is moving by you'll notice that the words on the side of the bus are blurred or else the camera moves along with the bus to avoid that blurring so you can read it. Action scenes would often be much better if they were instead shot at higher fps -- the motion would be clearer and you could make out more details. Check out MaxiVision48 which provides a way to improve movie filming/projection to 48 fps. It's a very cool technology that I wish Hollywood would embrace rather than digital projection (or at least bring digital projection up to the MaxiVision48 quality).

    Ebert's review of Maxivision48.

    Article with details on MaxiVision48 with some pictures of the difference it makes on page 11.

    - Steve

  2. Re:Useless waste of processing power by ytseschew · · Score: 1 · on Positive Reviews For Nvidia' GeForce 6800 Ultra
    Why do you think that TV and Movies are ideal when shot at 30 fps (actually it's 24 fps for movies)?? Next time you watch a movie when a bus is moving by you'll notice that the words on the side of the bus are blurred or else the camera moves along with the bus to avoid that blurring so you can read it. Action scenes would often be much better if they were instead shot at higher fps -- the motion would be clearer and you could make out more details. Check out MaxiVision48 which provides a way to improve movie filming/projection to 48 fps. It's a very cool technology that I wish Hollywood would embrace rather than digital projection (or at least bring digital projection up to the MaxiVision48 quality).

    Ebert's review of Maxivision48.

    Article with details on MaxiVision48 with some pictures of the difference it makes on page 11.

    - Steve

  3. Re:Frame Rate by flubus · · Score: 2, Informative · on Ultra High Definition Video

    How about 48 fps?

  4. Re:Not as funny as you'd think by NearlyHeadless · · Score: 5, Informative · on Slashback: ClonesMAX, Animation, Dislaimers
    Will we ever see > 24fps in the movie theater? Possibly, but it's going to take some time.

    Roger Ebert has been praising a system called Maxivision48 which is 48 fps (and can dynamically switch to 24 fps to save money).


    Also, Douglas Trumbull's ShowScan system has been around for a while, but has only been used for a few specialty attractions. I've read comments that said that ShowScan was too realistic and not "cinematic." That reminds me of the CD vs. vinyl debate.


    I've never seen either system.

  5. Re:6 years??? by NeMon'ess · · Score: 2 · on The Future of Digital Cinema

    If you check maxivision out you'll know the hard part was making it backwards compatible.
    Page 7 of the pdf explains. Sorry there isn't a non-adobe format.

  6. what is your opinion of "digital" film? by jdbo · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Talk to a Movie Digital SFX Expert

    While I have been personally disappointed by the quality of "digital" film techniques (seen most recently in Attack of the Clones, and previously in some pure-CG/animated features such as Fantasia 2000), finding it to be a debatable "improvement" at best, I was wondering what the professional consensus is in the field re: the long term future of celluloid film.

    In particular, I'm interested in finding out what the sought-after advantages on the production end are for digital film, vs. making use of more advanced celluloid based film approaches such as Maxivision, which I find interesting (but have never seen).

    Thanks!

  7. Here's the PDF by DABANSHEE · · Score: 2 · on Will Digital Cinema Wipe-Out Today's Movie Theaters?

    Maxivision PDF link

  8. Maxivision48 is the got by DABANSHEE · · Score: 2 · on Will Digital Cinema Wipe-Out Today's Movie Theaters?

    It leaves Digital for dead

    Here's Roger Ebert blurb on Maxivision

    Here's a PDF on it

  9. From original poster: I CHANGED MY MIND!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Will Digital Cinema Wipe-Out Today's Movie Theaters?

    Eech!! All the horrors of digital cinema scream 'fad' to me. But i've just read the marketing book on MaxiVision48 . SOMEONE GOT A REAAAL 48fps system to work and it integreates seamlessly with existing 35 setups and it's only 10 grand!!! Why isn't this EVERYWHERE???? I'm in love. This and Dolby Digital EX are my next Campus Cinema purchases.

  10. Re:$150,000 by Newtonian_p · · Score: 1 · on Will Digital Cinema Wipe-Out Today's Movie Theaters?
    Here it says that TI's MDD chip has specs of 1280 by 1024 pixels. The pixels are square so special lenses squish them into widescreen format.

    Remember, if it says so on the Internet, then it must be true.

  11. MaxiVision by P!Alexander · · Score: 1 · on Will Digital Cinema Wipe-Out Today's Movie Theaters?

    This has been hashed out before on Slashdot (Here). The main competitor seems to be MaxiVision which has been heralded by Roger Ebert. Has some great features: twice the framerate and no huge expenditures. Downsides: requires more film. I don't think anybody is currently making films for this puppy, unfortunately. I was lucky enough to see a sample at their HQ in San Luis Obispo, CA and it is VERY impressive. Having seen AotC on digital I would say they are pretty comparable. I think digital will win out in the end. It seems to have the backing of the big boys...

  12. MaxiVision by P!Alexander · · Score: 1 · on Will Digital Cinema Wipe-Out Today's Movie Theaters?

    This has been hashed out before on Slashdot (Here). The main competitor seems to be MaxiVision which has been heralded by Roger Ebert. Has some great features: twice the framerate and no huge expenditures. Downsides: requires more film. I don't think anybody is currently making films for this puppy, unfortunately. I was lucky enough to see a sample at their HQ in San Luis Obispo, CA and it is VERY impressive. Having seen AotC on digital I would say they are pretty comparable. I think digital will win out in the end. It seems to have the backing of the big boys...

  13. Re:FPS levels by NeMon'ess · · Score: 2 · on Two Approaches to the Next-Generation Desktop
    I've read that 60fps is about as much as the human eye can detect. I'm not talking about reading an ad for Coke in a single frame of a movie. There have been studies showing that raising the refresh rate of a monitor up from 60Hz reduces eye strain. People are less likely to get a headache after staring a monitors for three hours at 85Hz instead of 60Hz. When I go to a movie, I lament the jerkeyness of the credits running at 24fps. maxivision is working to improve the quality of movies by among other things, speeding up the film to 48fps.

  14. Roger Ebert & A Maxivision Viewer's Testimony by P!Alexander · · Score: 1 · on Lack of Digital Screens for Attack of the Clones

    Here's a link to the Ebert essay (A bit lengthy but a GREAT read!).

    Maxivision48 (PDF specs) was created by a small company located in San Luis Obispo. When I was going to school up there a friend and I posed as school reporters and got into the company to see a screening. We met the pres and everything. Let me tell you...amazing quality. Blew away anything I had ever seen (Including some digital stuff from SF). Granted, it was in their theater under their conditions but if real-world scenarios could even come CLOSE it would be a vast improvement over anything else out there. The picture clarity during high-motion scenes was perfect. No blurs. It really was like watching a scene take place outside of a very clean window. Hope this makes it out soon!

  15. Roger Ebert & A Maxivision Viewer's Testimony by P!Alexander · · Score: 1 · on Lack of Digital Screens for Attack of the Clones

    Here's a link to the Ebert essay (A bit lengthy but a GREAT read!).

    Maxivision48 (PDF specs) was created by a small company located in San Luis Obispo. When I was going to school up there a friend and I posed as school reporters and got into the company to see a screening. We met the pres and everything. Let me tell you...amazing quality. Blew away anything I had ever seen (Including some digital stuff from SF). Granted, it was in their theater under their conditions but if real-world scenarios could even come CLOSE it would be a vast improvement over anything else out there. The picture clarity during high-motion scenes was perfect. No blurs. It really was like watching a scene take place outside of a very clean window. Hope this makes it out soon!

  16. Re:l offers nothing by phobos72 · · Score: 1 · on Lack of Digital Screens for Attack of the Clones

    The name of the 48fps film that Roger Ebert wrote about is "MaxiVision48". Quite an interesting read, but when digital projection/filming improves, 48 fps will seem like a slideshow.

  17. Re:I think I should sort some stuff out by Quikah · · Score: 2 · on Copy-Protected Digital VHS

    It is because film is 24 fps. It is not quite fast enough to give a completely smooth pan. There is actually a new product called Maxivision 48 that shoots film at 48 fps and supposedly gives a much better image. There is a nice quick overview of the tech here. This is most likely going to die to digital projection even though it is probably better.