Actually, you only need CAT6 if you want to go the full 180 foot distance. Cat5e, depending on the cable's specifics will work just fine, though usually at a reduced maximum distance. That means my home's cat 5 will likely work up to 10Gig as all the runs are considerably shorter than 100 feet.
What, you paid using BitCoin? Can you prove that sir? I didn't think so.. (click)
You genuinely don't know how bitcoin works do you?
Oh I know how it works and that EVERY transaction is publicly verifiable and traceable FOREVER and I've said so many times before. What else is that "block chain" thing anyway? I was making a joke about the joke... But I guess the amusing subtlety of what I posted got lost for some of you..
Not very substantial food for thought. All of those things are easy to think of and easy to dismiss with the notion that security through obscurity is really no security at all. If these places are designed in such a way that blurring out aerial photos of them provides any degree of additional security, then these places aren't secure.
Right... Let's just say I think your understanding of this issue fails. It is obvious that there is a degree of security that obscurity brings.
However, you set up a straw man here. Nobody is claiming that obscurity provides *all* the security, only that it enhances the security they have. They are not dependent on obscurity, they only enhance security using it. It's the same reason armies use camouflage on their uniforms and the air forces of the world paint their fighters grey. Camouflage doesn't stop bullets or bombs from killing you, but it may keep them from coming your way from time to time..
Same thing with Israel. They believe that by having Google blur images of their Dimona nuclear plant or where their nuclear weapons are stored that somehow no one will be able to find them.
It's not about Israel trying to hide the site... They are trying to protect it from the locals who wish them harm and would revel at the chance to attack said site successfully on foot, where a detailed aerial view would be invaluable to the planning, preparation and execution of such an attack. Having such information readily available from Google just makes it that much easier for the rag tag group of Palestinians representing Hamas (or even Israel's neighbor states who don't have ready access to equipment to collect such imagery for themselves) to make a lot more trouble with the same collection of guys and gear.
Everybody knows where the installation is and what's there already. They are just trying to make it that much harder for the little groups to make trouble by denying them easy access to information. Yea, they can go out and pay for the images and get them or find another government who will give them the information, but all that takes time, money and folks talking to each other, which greatly elevates the risk of detection. So blurring the images DOES help in this case, if you are Israel.
Seriously? I can think of a LOT of places where a little be a blurring might be a good thing, helping to keep likely terrorist targets a bit less exposed and remove a cost and risk free means of surveillance in places you'd rather keep the public's nose out of for their own safety. Nuclear power plants for example, you need to keep those things pretty secure given what's at risk and handing out maps to terrorists might not be a good idea. Same with other industrial areas, where the risks to the public is large or perhaps prison compounds and other public infrastructure where you would rather not hand out a blue print of the ground plan to those you are trying to protect it from.
Where I suppose a policy of letting the government decide where blurring is appropriate and where it's not might get abused, it's not without merit to consider.
Just food for thought on you extremely one sided statement there...
Taiwan actually believes that China relies on Google Maps for its military intel?
Well, likely they just want to make it harder for the less well equipped terrorist who doesn't own the billions of dollars worth of hardware required to take the photos themselves from getting them? Plus, it actually would make it more difficult for China, who, instead of hitting up Google might actually have to take the images themselves to see what they think they need to see...
So, I understand why they are asking... And I don't think they are under any illusions about how much of an advantage they are taking away from their advisories if Google grants their request, but every little bit helps.
Not to be crass, but dude, get a life and a clue because you are about done here..
There is a near zero chance intelligent life exists anyplace near enough to us that we could detect it, even if we listened really hard. The booming level of local noise and background noise makes the chances of us hearing some signal from 100 light years away less likely than hearing a pin drop a mile away while standing in the middle of a rock concert.
PLUS, if we did happen to get *really* lucky and did happen to catch a signal that was provably not naturally occurring but had to be from intelligent life outside our solar system, what's the chance somebody on the other end would be listening to our reply or that any kind of meaningful conversation is going to take place with round trip times measured in at least decades and likely centuries? And who's to say the other end would be listening that long? Certinally you will never know as your illness is sure to take your life decades if not centuries before confirmation could possibly come.
Finally, in the unlikely event we do find something, we are NEVER going to go there. There is no way we can build a ship capable of protecting and sustaining human life for the length of time required for a one way trip. That is, of course, assuming Einstein was right with that pesky relativity thing which makes "faster than light" travel pretty much impossible.
So Stephen, stop with the attention getting PR stunts like these and concentrate on making the best use of your last few years. Perhaps a bit of soul searching about your mortality and do a bit of thinking about the meaning of life, death and the futility of it all for someone with your world view.. As it stand, is sure seems like you are grasping at straws, trying to "make a name" for yourself in your closing days. Sir, with all due respect, you've already done that better than most, you don't need to play this desperate game to get attention. Come to terms with yourself and don't soil your reputation with such unnecessary stuff....
Of course, then the autopilot will drive your house under a semi while you fumble around trying to find the "Apply the brakes" hack.... After the crash, the whole thing catches fire because of a loose battery connection in the garage caused by a manual assembly... Finally the firemen will stand and watch your house burn to the ground with your dead lifeless body strapped to the couch because they are afraid of getting shocked, and you generally appear dead already...
But Tesla will claim to be able to fix it all with the next software patch which will automatically be deployed...
Many would say "Windows 10 bricked this or that" when in reality it did no such thing and they are just cavemen who dislike change.
No, I can say it actually did brick the inlaw's machine.... Of course it was an old pile of garbage that was on it's last legs, but it sure stopped working when my mother in law accidently hit that "Install Windows 10" button after I told her not to.. Don't know if the disk drive, mother board or what couldn't take the strain of an install, but the hardware was toast when I went to re-install 7.
So, to reverse the common quote about paying later for hamburgers...
You are promising me faster internet LATER? I suppose you'd like me to pay you for this now?
Way to go guys... I can do this NOW... You just cannot afford it.... And who wants to drop 10 Gig onto their WiFi router anyway? Oh, you want me to WIRE everything back up? Thanks, but no..
Call me when you can do that for what I'm paying now... I'm sorry but promises of way faster internet in the future get you a "Well Duh!" from me. Who doesn't expect it to get faster? I'm planning on it myself..
So, you want me to pay today for a hamburger next Tuesday? No thanks..
Are you kidding? I'll bet nobody can figure out who to blame... I can imagine the wild shuffling with the CYA memos flying about in a sea of paper that has sheet after sheet that says "It's not my fault, shoot Kim so and so...."
It's bad enough here in the capitalist side when it's just money and jobs at stake. Can you image how this goes when the guy who finally get's fingered has to face the Anti-Aircraft guns at short range and take his relatives along for the event?
You can bet though, that if lit'l Kim thinks he lost face, *somebody*, *anybody* and perhaps even everybody involved will face the music..
You capitalist pigs cannot access it because der Leader has decreed it so! (and somebody just pulled the cable from the PRNK side of our border router).
Reddit didn't do anything! It was ALL part of our plan to get attention....
But call me when you can render a moving scene in 4K VIDEO at a minimum of 40 FPS with varying lighting sources and textures that make use of that resolution. Doing all this while keeping up with the necessary game play and physics modeling to make what I'm seeing somewhat realistic....
/sarc off
Seriously, who cares what the physical hardware is capable of displaying in some static test image, it's about being able to model the game play realistic enough and fast enough to be believable while showing a related visual representation of the same without having the user's subconscious be nagging them that something's not right... So where it is obviously better to have higher resolution, if you don't have the ability to use that resolution though lack of horse power, memory bandwidth etc, it doesn't matter.
Comparing raw video resolution is a fools game. It's all for marketing. Sort of like the idiots who somehow claim they can actually hear the difference between 0.1 and 0.01 % THD in their home stereos... Looks good on paper, but you might as well start a fire with that marketing brochure.
For Pete's sake, Hams are literally 0.2% of the population.. We and our antennas are NOT the reason HOA's exist. That's just crazy... And I'm not asking for anything crazy or unsafe, just reasonable accommodation that is consistent with the purpose of ham radio in federal law.
Apparently you agree that, the argument being made by *some* here has merit. After all, you have conceded the major points I've made. I have a reduced set of options if I want to put up antennas and participate in my hobby as well as providing the emergency communications public service that part 93 is designed to encourage. Your solution is not a solution for *some* hams, who are unable to drive further, spend more or live someplace other than where they are.
If you want to drive further, pay more or live in an older home then you can find CC&R free places, which is the argument being made. In order to be a ham and put up antennas, I have to either drive further, pay more or live in an older home... My options are thus limited, which is the substance of the argument being made. For some, none of these are viable options, for them, HOA's offer no choice. It's not that being a ham somehow is a health and safety issue, my tower won't hurt you, it doesn't smell or pose a danger to you, and if you let me put one up, few will actually see the thing behind the trees in my front yard... But I cannot put one up, the HOA won't allow it.. I may have the option of moving, but some of my fellow hams do not and it's for them I argue.
I'm a old projectionist from three decades ago... Now in my day, screens where much bigger and a house sat 400 or more, which is twice the size I'm seeing today in places
I'll bet that back in your day, even with those more-populated theaters, theater-going was a far more pleasurable experience, without people talking throughout the movie, using their cellphones, wearing big hats, bringing noisy little kids to age-inappropriate movies, etc. Or am I looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses?
Well, generally I see what you mean with the general lack of regard for others getting worse, but we had our share of smokers on the back row threatening to set the place on fire and disruptions where not unheard of. They where just dealt with faster by a more attentive usher who actually entered the theater on a regular basis to check on things.
Personally, I like watching movies more at home than the theater these days. Less disrupted, The popcorn is fresher and cheaper and I can stop the movie when ever I need to use the restroom (which seems to happen more often these days..) Was well worth the "cost of admission" to get a sweet home theater set up....
IMAX... is just 70mm on edge. In stead of running though the projector from top to bottom, it runs sideways. I believe though it still runs at 24 fps...
Of course that means there is something like 4x the surface area per frame....
People who saw the 70 mm Hateful 8 said it was great - if you saw it on the first night or two. Then picture quality dropped noticeably, as did registration. That's always been the big problem with analog formats - they don't hold up well.
How fast a print gets dirty is directly related to how well the equipment and booth is kept clean. We always cleaned the projector between reels and kept the boot as clean as we could, even though we where running old sooty carbon arc lamps. We could run a print for weeks without getting it too bad except at the ends of the reels where it got handled a lot.
For 70mm it was a lot of work too. We had to change reels roughly every 10-15 min for the whole show. That means once the show started and we ran though the first reel and switched over, you had 10 min to re-carbon the lamp, clean and thread the projector and run down reel 3 while reel 1 was rewinding. Then it was "lather, rinse and repeat" through the 10-12 reels of 70mm. By the end of the night, after 4 showings, you will have worked 8 hours, lifted 50 lbs over your head 40+ times with three 15 min breaks, correctly timed 40 reel changes, focused the projector and verified the sound 40 times. Good thing I was a young man back then.
By the time I got out of the business, they where running both 35m and 70mm on one big reel (we called them platters) and I where I made nearly $8/hour running the carbon arc house (and changing reels all the time), they didn't need me to run the platters anymore. I got to come in on Thursday night and Friday afternoon to splice the prints onto or off of the platters after that. They trained the ushers to thread up and push the button and nobody cared about cleaning anymore, so the prints got trashed in short order then. But it didn't matter to the theater, it wasn't their print, and as long as it ran though the projector, they'd run the thing....
Actually, I have pulled a lot of land records and I noticed something. All the builders generally have boiler plate CC&R's that they use. All they do is alter the land description details (where its located, lot details ect.) and file the same verbiage over and over. Also, if you went with one of the major builders in my area (the ones who build about 95% of everything single family going up today) you are SURE to get one of these boiler plate CC&R's with the HOA and the whole 9 yards. It's just how the vast majority of new construction is being done here.
Your area may be different I suppose, but HERE in north Texas, nearly ALL new single family homes being built right now (and there are a LOT of them) will come with CC&R's. In fact, I'm loathed to find even a single example of a new single family home near the median price, within a reasonable commute that doesn't come with one of about 5 standard boiler plate CC&R's, all of which prohibit antenna structures.
So, you see, I have done some research... It wasn't exhaustive, but it was the best our realtor and I could do at the time.
Now, if I don't mind a longer commute or a much older home, you can find ones that are CC&R free at the same price. You can also go to some towns where you will pay a lot more for the same house on a larger plot of land and escape the CC&R problem. But the sad fact is, you will pay more, drive further, and/or live in an older home to escape the HOA nightmare.
I so miss the 70mm film days.... Talk about resolution..... Audio wasn't bad considering it was 6 channels of magnetic with Dolby A encoding, though today's audio is MUCH better... But who wants to lug around 400 lbs of film for a 2 hour show any more, even if the visible detail was something to behold.
Interesting that cinema cameras and production didn't get matched by consumer equipment specs, but you are right, they never have matched. You'd think the consumer market would gravitate towards the film industry standard or vice versa, just for cost reasons.
Wow, I'm not sure that's true. Standard 35mm film even in Cinemascope has a lot more resolution than that.
I'm a old projectionist from three decades ago and I can tell you that in my judgment, today's digital theater is roughly about the same quality as the pictures I used to see from the 35mm films (there is no comparison to 70mm, which was *clearly* better image quality at 24fps). Now in my day, screens where much bigger and a house sat 400 or more, which is twice the size I'm seeing today in places, but I'm pretty sure that 2K is a bit on the low side.
I suppose it's possible I'm just getting old and my eyes are giving out on me so much I cannot tell the difference anymore, or I'm mistaking the lack of grain and the higher frame rates for quality.... But do you have a reference for this 2K claim?
As I understand this. 4K is what you get at many small theaters which use digital projection these days. There is some 4K material available, including streaming sources that actually have noticeable quality differences.
Will folks notice the difference? Unlikely... Or, as was the case when I saw my first 1080p resolution movie, I got very distracted by the background set and costume issues that now became oh so visible... Made the movie, an action adventure flick, almost unwatchable for me.
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10GIGE needs CAT 6A cabling.
Actually, you only need CAT6 if you want to go the full 180 foot distance. Cat5e, depending on the cable's specifics will work just fine, though usually at a reduced maximum distance. That means my home's cat 5 will likely work up to 10Gig as all the runs are considerably shorter than 100 feet.
What, you paid using BitCoin? Can you prove that sir? I didn't think so.. (click)
You genuinely don't know how bitcoin works do you?
Oh I know how it works and that EVERY transaction is publicly verifiable and traceable FOREVER and I've said so many times before. What else is that "block chain" thing anyway? I was making a joke about the joke... But I guess the amusing subtlety of what I posted got lost for some of you..
Finally I can pay my utility bills completely anonymously!
-AC
I'm sorry sir, we have no record of a payment on your electric bill for last month. Either pay up now or we are going to shut you off....
What, you paid using BitCoin? Can you prove that sir? I didn't think so.. (click)
Just food for thought on you extremely one sided statement there...
I'm not hungry at the moment, thanks though. I'm an all or nothing kind of guy. Either we ALL can see it or its all bullshit.
I think you are starving and just don't know it.
Not very substantial food for thought. All of those things are easy to think of and easy to dismiss with the notion that security through obscurity is really no security at all. If these places are designed in such a way that blurring out aerial photos of them provides any degree of additional security, then these places aren't secure.
Right... Let's just say I think your understanding of this issue fails. It is obvious that there is a degree of security that obscurity brings.
However, you set up a straw man here. Nobody is claiming that obscurity provides *all* the security, only that it enhances the security they have. They are not dependent on obscurity, they only enhance security using it. It's the same reason armies use camouflage on their uniforms and the air forces of the world paint their fighters grey. Camouflage doesn't stop bullets or bombs from killing you, but it may keep them from coming your way from time to time..
Same thing with Israel. They believe that by having Google blur images of their Dimona nuclear plant or where their nuclear weapons are stored that somehow no one will be able to find them.
It's not about Israel trying to hide the site... They are trying to protect it from the locals who wish them harm and would revel at the chance to attack said site successfully on foot, where a detailed aerial view would be invaluable to the planning, preparation and execution of such an attack. Having such information readily available from Google just makes it that much easier for the rag tag group of Palestinians representing Hamas (or even Israel's neighbor states who don't have ready access to equipment to collect such imagery for themselves) to make a lot more trouble with the same collection of guys and gear.
Everybody knows where the installation is and what's there already. They are just trying to make it that much harder for the little groups to make trouble by denying them easy access to information. Yea, they can go out and pay for the images and get them or find another government who will give them the information, but all that takes time, money and folks talking to each other, which greatly elevates the risk of detection. So blurring the images DOES help in this case, if you are Israel.
End Of Discussion.
Seriously? I can think of a LOT of places where a little be a blurring might be a good thing, helping to keep likely terrorist targets a bit less exposed and remove a cost and risk free means of surveillance in places you'd rather keep the public's nose out of for their own safety. Nuclear power plants for example, you need to keep those things pretty secure given what's at risk and handing out maps to terrorists might not be a good idea. Same with other industrial areas, where the risks to the public is large or perhaps prison compounds and other public infrastructure where you would rather not hand out a blue print of the ground plan to those you are trying to protect it from.
Where I suppose a policy of letting the government decide where blurring is appropriate and where it's not might get abused, it's not without merit to consider.
Just food for thought on you extremely one sided statement there...
Taiwan actually believes that China relies on Google Maps for its military intel?
Well, likely they just want to make it harder for the less well equipped terrorist who doesn't own the billions of dollars worth of hardware required to take the photos themselves from getting them? Plus, it actually would make it more difficult for China, who, instead of hitting up Google might actually have to take the images themselves to see what they think they need to see...
So, I understand why they are asking... And I don't think they are under any illusions about how much of an advantage they are taking away from their advisories if Google grants their request, but every little bit helps.
Not to be crass, but dude, get a life and a clue because you are about done here..
There is a near zero chance intelligent life exists anyplace near enough to us that we could detect it, even if we listened really hard. The booming level of local noise and background noise makes the chances of us hearing some signal from 100 light years away less likely than hearing a pin drop a mile away while standing in the middle of a rock concert.
PLUS, if we did happen to get *really* lucky and did happen to catch a signal that was provably not naturally occurring but had to be from intelligent life outside our solar system, what's the chance somebody on the other end would be listening to our reply or that any kind of meaningful conversation is going to take place with round trip times measured in at least decades and likely centuries? And who's to say the other end would be listening that long? Certinally you will never know as your illness is sure to take your life decades if not centuries before confirmation could possibly come.
Finally, in the unlikely event we do find something, we are NEVER going to go there. There is no way we can build a ship capable of protecting and sustaining human life for the length of time required for a one way trip. That is, of course, assuming Einstein was right with that pesky relativity thing which makes "faster than light" travel pretty much impossible.
So Stephen, stop with the attention getting PR stunts like these and concentrate on making the best use of your last few years. Perhaps a bit of soul searching about your mortality and do a bit of thinking about the meaning of life, death and the futility of it all for someone with your world view.. As it stand, is sure seems like you are grasping at straws, trying to "make a name" for yourself in your closing days. Sir, with all due respect, you've already done that better than most, you don't need to play this desperate game to get attention. Come to terms with yourself and don't soil your reputation with such unnecessary stuff....
Along with your insurance rates....
Of course, then the autopilot will drive your house under a semi while you fumble around trying to find the "Apply the brakes" hack.... After the crash, the whole thing catches fire because of a loose battery connection in the garage caused by a manual assembly... Finally the firemen will stand and watch your house burn to the ground with your dead lifeless body strapped to the couch because they are afraid of getting shocked, and you generally appear dead already...
But Tesla will claim to be able to fix it all with the next software patch which will automatically be deployed...
Many would say "Windows 10 bricked this or that" when in reality it did no such thing and they are just cavemen who dislike change.
No, I can say it actually did brick the inlaw's machine.... Of course it was an old pile of garbage that was on it's last legs, but it sure stopped working when my mother in law accidently hit that "Install Windows 10" button after I told her not to.. Don't know if the disk drive, mother board or what couldn't take the strain of an install, but the hardware was toast when I went to re-install 7.
So, to reverse the common quote about paying later for hamburgers...
You are promising me faster internet LATER? I suppose you'd like me to pay you for this now?
Way to go guys... I can do this NOW... You just cannot afford it.... And who wants to drop 10 Gig onto their WiFi router anyway? Oh, you want me to WIRE everything back up? Thanks, but no..
Call me when you can do that for what I'm paying now... I'm sorry but promises of way faster internet in the future get you a "Well Duh!" from me. Who doesn't expect it to get faster? I'm planning on it myself..
So, you want me to pay today for a hamburger next Tuesday? No thanks..
someone probably died for this mistake
Are you kidding? I'll bet nobody can figure out who to blame... I can imagine the wild shuffling with the CYA memos flying about in a sea of paper that has sheet after sheet that says "It's not my fault, shoot Kim so and so...."
It's bad enough here in the capitalist side when it's just money and jobs at stake. Can you image how this goes when the guy who finally get's fingered has to face the Anti-Aircraft guns at short range and take his relatives along for the event?
You can bet though, that if lit'l Kim thinks he lost face, *somebody*, *anybody* and perhaps even everybody involved will face the music..
You capitalist pigs cannot access it because der Leader has decreed it so! (and somebody just pulled the cable from the PRNK side of our border router).
Reddit didn't do anything! It was ALL part of our plan to get attention....
But call me when you can render a moving scene in 4K VIDEO at a minimum of 40 FPS with varying lighting sources and textures that make use of that resolution. Doing all this while keeping up with the necessary game play and physics modeling to make what I'm seeing somewhat realistic....
/sarc off
Seriously, who cares what the physical hardware is capable of displaying in some static test image, it's about being able to model the game play realistic enough and fast enough to be believable while showing a related visual representation of the same without having the user's subconscious be nagging them that something's not right... So where it is obviously better to have higher resolution, if you don't have the ability to use that resolution though lack of horse power, memory bandwidth etc, it doesn't matter.
Comparing raw video resolution is a fools game. It's all for marketing. Sort of like the idiots who somehow claim they can actually hear the difference between 0.1 and 0.01 % THD in their home stereos... Looks good on paper, but you might as well start a fire with that marketing brochure.
It even has a headphone jack
Really?? Hasn't this joke run its course yet?
No, Jack, it hasn't.
For Pete's sake, Hams are literally 0.2% of the population.. We and our antennas are NOT the reason HOA's exist. That's just crazy... And I'm not asking for anything crazy or unsafe, just reasonable accommodation that is consistent with the purpose of ham radio in federal law.
Apparently you agree that, the argument being made by *some* here has merit. After all, you have conceded the major points I've made. I have a reduced set of options if I want to put up antennas and participate in my hobby as well as providing the emergency communications public service that part 93 is designed to encourage. Your solution is not a solution for *some* hams, who are unable to drive further, spend more or live someplace other than where they are.
If you want to drive further, pay more or live in an older home then you can find CC&R free places, which is the argument being made. In order to be a ham and put up antennas, I have to either drive further, pay more or live in an older home... My options are thus limited, which is the substance of the argument being made. For some, none of these are viable options, for them, HOA's offer no choice. It's not that being a ham somehow is a health and safety issue, my tower won't hurt you, it doesn't smell or pose a danger to you, and if you let me put one up, few will actually see the thing behind the trees in my front yard... But I cannot put one up, the HOA won't allow it.. I may have the option of moving, but some of my fellow hams do not and it's for them I argue.
I'm a old projectionist from three decades ago... Now in my day, screens where much bigger and a house sat 400 or more, which is twice the size I'm seeing today in places
I'll bet that back in your day, even with those more-populated theaters, theater-going was a far more pleasurable experience, without people talking throughout the movie, using their cellphones, wearing big hats, bringing noisy little kids to age-inappropriate movies, etc. Or am I looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses?
Well, generally I see what you mean with the general lack of regard for others getting worse, but we had our share of smokers on the back row threatening to set the place on fire and disruptions where not unheard of. They where just dealt with faster by a more attentive usher who actually entered the theater on a regular basis to check on things.
Personally, I like watching movies more at home than the theater these days. Less disrupted, The popcorn is fresher and cheaper and I can stop the movie when ever I need to use the restroom (which seems to happen more often these days..) Was well worth the "cost of admission" to get a sweet home theater set up....
IMAX... is just 70mm on edge. In stead of running though the projector from top to bottom, it runs sideways. I believe though it still runs at 24 fps...
Of course that means there is something like 4x the surface area per frame....
People who saw the 70 mm Hateful 8 said it was great - if you saw it on the first night or two. Then picture quality dropped noticeably, as did registration. That's always been the big problem with analog formats - they don't hold up well.
How fast a print gets dirty is directly related to how well the equipment and booth is kept clean. We always cleaned the projector between reels and kept the boot as clean as we could, even though we where running old sooty carbon arc lamps. We could run a print for weeks without getting it too bad except at the ends of the reels where it got handled a lot.
For 70mm it was a lot of work too. We had to change reels roughly every 10-15 min for the whole show. That means once the show started and we ran though the first reel and switched over, you had 10 min to re-carbon the lamp, clean and thread the projector and run down reel 3 while reel 1 was rewinding. Then it was "lather, rinse and repeat" through the 10-12 reels of 70mm. By the end of the night, after 4 showings, you will have worked 8 hours, lifted 50 lbs over your head 40+ times with three 15 min breaks, correctly timed 40 reel changes, focused the projector and verified the sound 40 times. Good thing I was a young man back then.
By the time I got out of the business, they where running both 35m and 70mm on one big reel (we called them platters) and I where I made nearly $8/hour running the carbon arc house (and changing reels all the time), they didn't need me to run the platters anymore. I got to come in on Thursday night and Friday afternoon to splice the prints onto or off of the platters after that. They trained the ushers to thread up and push the button and nobody cared about cleaning anymore, so the prints got trashed in short order then. But it didn't matter to the theater, it wasn't their print, and as long as it ran though the projector, they'd run the thing....
Actually, I have pulled a lot of land records and I noticed something. All the builders generally have boiler plate CC&R's that they use. All they do is alter the land description details (where its located, lot details ect.) and file the same verbiage over and over. Also, if you went with one of the major builders in my area (the ones who build about 95% of everything single family going up today) you are SURE to get one of these boiler plate CC&R's with the HOA and the whole 9 yards. It's just how the vast majority of new construction is being done here.
Your area may be different I suppose, but HERE in north Texas, nearly ALL new single family homes being built right now (and there are a LOT of them) will come with CC&R's. In fact, I'm loathed to find even a single example of a new single family home near the median price, within a reasonable commute that doesn't come with one of about 5 standard boiler plate CC&R's, all of which prohibit antenna structures.
So, you see, I have done some research... It wasn't exhaustive, but it was the best our realtor and I could do at the time.
Now, if I don't mind a longer commute or a much older home, you can find ones that are CC&R free at the same price. You can also go to some towns where you will pay a lot more for the same house on a larger plot of land and escape the CC&R problem. But the sad fact is, you will pay more, drive further, and/or live in an older home to escape the HOA nightmare.
I so miss the 70mm film days.... Talk about resolution..... Audio wasn't bad considering it was 6 channels of magnetic with Dolby A encoding, though today's audio is MUCH better... But who wants to lug around 400 lbs of film for a 2 hour show any more, even if the visible detail was something to behold.
Interesting that cinema cameras and production didn't get matched by consumer equipment specs, but you are right, they never have matched. You'd think the consumer market would gravitate towards the film industry standard or vice versa, just for cost reasons.
Wow, I'm not sure that's true. Standard 35mm film even in Cinemascope has a lot more resolution than that.
I'm a old projectionist from three decades ago and I can tell you that in my judgment, today's digital theater is roughly about the same quality as the pictures I used to see from the 35mm films (there is no comparison to 70mm, which was *clearly* better image quality at 24fps). Now in my day, screens where much bigger and a house sat 400 or more, which is twice the size I'm seeing today in places, but I'm pretty sure that 2K is a bit on the low side.
I suppose it's possible I'm just getting old and my eyes are giving out on me so much I cannot tell the difference anymore, or I'm mistaking the lack of grain and the higher frame rates for quality.... But do you have a reference for this 2K claim?
If you build it, they will come....
As I understand this. 4K is what you get at many small theaters which use digital projection these days. There is some 4K material available, including streaming sources that actually have noticeable quality differences.
Will folks notice the difference? Unlikely... Or, as was the case when I saw my first 1080p resolution movie, I got very distracted by the background set and costume issues that now became oh so visible... Made the movie, an action adventure flick, almost unwatchable for me.