According to their logic, that should have already happened. And yet here they are, still cranking out one mediocre POS after another, and making a profit on most of them. Go figure.
Undoubtedly. Only accident I've had in 30 years of driving that was my fault was driving home from work early in the afternoon before the usual time and traffic was backed up where there was usually no one around and I rear-ended people.
Well except for when I flipped a car as a kid racing someone.
The studios are selling a great many catalog titles on blu-ray without region coding. I would guess a majority, although I am not positive. It varies a bit by studio.
Not even the industry's best scaling hardware would make a DVD look good on a 40 foot screen with a D cinema projector, Imax or not. And certainly nowhere near as good as a 35mm print of any competently made movie. And I am not even sure how the 80s enter into it.
DVD is encoded at 480. In 4:2:0 color. All the interpolation and scaling you want is not going to add back all that detail. It will just make the resulting crap look a little smoother, with maybe a slight boost from frame-to-frame information.
35mm film has better resolution than the 2048 x 1080 almost all (and current Imax digital) cinema projectors use. A second or third generation print that's been abused by some teen slacker projection booth flunky at the local mall for a week won't look so hot, but at a theater that actually maintains its equipment, it will look pretty stellar.
And film prints in the '80s were basically the same as today.
exactly, most rooms in my house (and most in my city) are 12 foot on some side. That's simply too close for TVs much over 42"...
No, it is too close for SD TVs. The whole point of HD is it looks better bigger and closer, allowing you to get closer to a cinema experience.
You may be one of the group that doesn't like to sit that close to a TV of any size, but it's not a limitation of the technology, it's your preference.
If by idiots, you mean the half of working mothers in our neighborhood.
I was not talking about women who self-identify as feminists. I was talking about a large portion of the working women she encounters, which are probably the minority in my area, most women are stay at home moms.
They are pretty common for a "straw man made up by conservatives" as ggp asserts.
My wife would classify herself as a feminist, just one who is able to stay home with the kid instead of working.
I've sat and watched and I see what you mean and still disagree. Apple's "HD" films do have somewhat more detail than a good DVD, but they have a lot more artifacts as well, certainly not only minor compression artifacts in dark scenes. I don't even bother to rent movies from them in HD because of that. If its a movie I want to look good, I buy the blu-ray. If not, I rent Apple's SD version.
A 5 GB file doesn't cut it for real HD. Even with h264.
And that doesn't get into the laughable bit rates for audio they use, which even DVD handily trounces.
What I will grant is that its all probably more than good enough for the ubiquitous "most people" everyone cites.
You're both a little confused. What you are more likely to see is an effect of Pixar on Disney's own branded films than vice versa, since they were specifically bought with that in mind. Lasseter runs the Disney animation Studio now.
Mine doesn't. The optical drive gets loud, but the macbok only gets hot when I am re-encoding it, not during ripping. Unless you were including that in the term "ripping".
Odd. My wife, who is a stay at home, except when she is devoting as many hours as a paying job to the PTA, mom, constantly gets down the nose comments from other women about not working and understanding that world.
No, that's against the rules. Say the penalty against bank robbing was a year in jail, no fine and not restitution though. Think a lot more people might not do it? In spite of the disapproval of the public?
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Gilligan did in that one episode where he drank the weird native concoction.
And then the wind cries Mary.
Who decides what "a prior fair and impartial procedure" is?
According to their logic, that should have already happened. And yet here they are, still cranking out one mediocre POS after another, and making a profit on most of them. Go figure.
Undoubtedly. Only accident I've had in 30 years of driving that was my fault was driving home from work early in the afternoon before the usual time and traffic was backed up where there was usually no one around and I rear-ended people.
Well except for when I flipped a car as a kid racing someone.
It's not the size of your sample, it's how you use it.
The studios are selling a great many catalog titles on blu-ray without region coding. I would guess a majority, although I am not positive. It varies a bit by studio.
Interesting site. Refuse the cookie it tries to place and the the lyrics disappear leaving the rest of the page intact.
Not even the industry's best scaling hardware would make a DVD look good on a 40 foot screen with a D cinema projector, Imax or not. And certainly nowhere near as good as a 35mm print of any competently made movie. And I am not even sure how the 80s enter into it.
DVD is encoded at 480. In 4:2:0 color. All the interpolation and scaling you want is not going to add back all that detail. It will just make the resulting crap look a little smoother, with maybe a slight boost from frame-to-frame information.
35mm film has better resolution than the 2048 x 1080 almost all (and current Imax digital) cinema projectors use. A second or third generation print that's been abused by some teen slacker projection booth flunky at the local mall for a week won't look so hot, but at a theater that actually maintains its equipment, it will look pretty stellar.
And film prints in the '80s were basically the same as today.
So what the heck are you talking about?
Iger should get some credit as well. He seems to be a pretty forward thinking guy. For a corporate CEO of a major media company anyway.
exactly, most rooms in my house (and most in my city) are 12 foot on some side. That's simply too close for TVs much over 42"...
No, it is too close for SD TVs. The whole point of HD is it looks better bigger and closer, allowing you to get closer to a cinema experience.
You may be one of the group that doesn't like to sit that close to a TV of any size, but it's not a limitation of the technology, it's your preference.
So if it didn't already have a hole?
American Pie, hmmmm.
The fastest chihuahua isn't going be faster than the fastest greyhound anytime soon.
Mine is. I let him drive my car. We passed a greyhound just yesterday.
Not in California:
http://www.animallaw.info/statutes/stuscacalpencode598d.htm
If by idiots, you mean the half of working mothers in our neighborhood.
I was not talking about women who self-identify as feminists. I was talking about a large portion of the working women she encounters, which are probably the minority in my area, most women are stay at home moms.
They are pretty common for a "straw man made up by conservatives" as ggp asserts.
My wife would classify herself as a feminist, just one who is able to stay home with the kid instead of working.
I've sat and watched and I see what you mean and still disagree. Apple's "HD" films do have somewhat more detail than a good DVD, but they have a lot more artifacts as well, certainly not only minor compression artifacts in dark scenes. I don't even bother to rent movies from them in HD because of that. If its a movie I want to look good, I buy the blu-ray. If not, I rent Apple's SD version.
A 5 GB file doesn't cut it for real HD. Even with h264.
And that doesn't get into the laughable bit rates for audio they use, which even DVD handily trounces.
What I will grant is that its all probably more than good enough for the ubiquitous "most people" everyone cites.
You're both a little confused. What you are more likely to see is an effect of Pixar on Disney's own branded films than vice versa, since they were specifically bought with that in mind. Lasseter runs the Disney animation Studio now.
Mine doesn't. The optical drive gets loud, but the macbok only gets hot when I am re-encoding it, not during ripping. Unless you were including that in the term "ripping".
But can it ski through a revolving door?
Odd. My wife, who is a stay at home, except when she is devoting as many hours as a paying job to the PTA, mom, constantly gets down the nose comments from other women about not working and understanding that world.
That sort of humor sticks with you
No, that's against the rules. Say the penalty against bank robbing was a year in jail, no fine and not restitution though. Think a lot more people might not do it? In spite of the disapproval of the public?
Pretty sure he would not want a goat in his port.
Good way to end up on some remote planet with a Gorn.
I award you +1 wish-I-had-a-modpoint