no, they aren't. If you're shooting film for American TV you shoot it at 29.97 fps - and than you don't need to add 3:2 pulldown when you telecine it. Same with PAL TV, film shot for PAL TV is shot at 25fps. Why would you shoot TV material to cinema standards? It makes no sense at all. Just go and have a look at a camera manufacturers website and look at their cams - try Arri or Panavision for a start - and you'll see that 24, 25 and 29.97 are all "crystal" speeds, among all the others. BTW, NTSC is 59.94 fields per second, not 60.
Rubbish. A Steenbeck or Moviola is just the same, and there is LESS stress when playing flat (er - that's the whole point). By your standards, showing 70mm would be a miracle, Showscan (70mm at 60fps) impossible and IMAX unthinkable.
absolute nonsense. Moing film quickly is a peice of piss, as every wildlife documentary and commercial with slow-motion in it that you've ever seen will attest. I've seen cameras that could shoot 10000 frames/sec - and there are MUCH faster ones in existence. It's perfectly normal for a movie 35mm camera to be variable up to 150fps, why would a projector be a big challenge? Shit, my old Steenbeck used to run up to 96fps without problems. Do some research.
...what a pile of crap. This is the feeblest thing I've read in ages. This is NOT the future of anyone's cinema - the whole point of E-Cinema / D-Cinema is to eliminate the cost of making and distributing film prints, Maxivision48 would DOUBLE the fucking print cost! For those who don't know, there are as many different film formats as there are inventors, and Maxivision48 isn't even in the top ten. Good grief.
"It's not the fact its based on "old tech" thats the problem, its the fact its based on the most unstable OS ever thats the problem"
As a loyal Mac-head, I'd have to point out that there are versions of the MacOS that make Win98 look positively stable. 8.6 for example, more memory leaks than you can shake a stick at.
well done for bringing up Hotmail - I remember back in '96 or '97 thinking how great it was - free and easy as it was. Now? You can pay for an upgrade to make it vaguely useful in terms of capacity, but the spamming is so extreme that if I look at my Homail inbox now I see 608 unread messages, 604 of which are spam and 4 are messages from hotmail telling me my account is full. Even better, my Junk folder shows ANOTHER 571 instances of spam. By contrast, apart from ONE very regular (twice a week) Korean spammer, my iTools has been COMPLETELY spam free for nearly 2 years. That's a service worth paying for, even if it isn't worth $100.
could someone enlighten me as to haw much an "assload" is, approximately? When I take a dump, I get maybe half a kilo of loaf-matter at most - usually a lot less. Do Americans take bigger dumps?
if you Tv were'nt capable of showing broadcast TV it would be a monitor - and they are exempt. Same goes for video cameras, unless for some reason they have a built in TV tuner. The system sounds basically unfair, and yet works remarkably well. Bit like the British constitution.
what are you all talking about? I've never heard of a keyboard that could close a window. Are you taking the piss out of me or what? Imean, my car has electric windows, but I don't control them with a computer keyboard. Stop jerking me around!
yeah, we have those in the UK too, and they're illegal. The most popular was the highly reflective type that would always "burn out" when flashed by the speed camera and yet looked completely normal to the naked eye. They were outlawed some time ago.
It is. If you think that's "thorough" you should try the London Underground - they have more CCTV cameras than you can count, the pictures from which are analysed by a computer (neural net, no less) and they track via your travelcard going through barriers. If you lose your card and go and tell them, they can recount your journeys for you quite easily. It's prtty spooky.
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no, they aren't. If you're shooting film for American TV you shoot it at 29.97 fps - and than you don't need to add 3:2 pulldown when you telecine it. Same with PAL TV, film shot for PAL TV is shot at 25fps. Why would you shoot TV material to cinema standards? It makes no sense at all. Just go and have a look at a camera manufacturers website and look at their cams - try Arri or Panavision for a start - and you'll see that 24, 25 and 29.97 are all "crystal" speeds, among all the others. BTW, NTSC is 59.94 fields per second, not 60.
Rubbish. A Steenbeck or Moviola is just the same, and there is LESS stress when playing flat (er - that's the whole point). By your standards, showing 70mm would be a miracle, Showscan (70mm at 60fps) impossible and IMAX unthinkable.
absolute nonsense. Moing film quickly is a peice of piss, as every wildlife documentary and commercial with slow-motion in it that you've ever seen will attest. I've seen cameras that could shoot 10000 frames/sec - and there are MUCH faster ones in existence. It's perfectly normal for a movie 35mm camera to be variable up to 150fps, why would a projector be a big challenge? Shit, my old Steenbeck used to run up to 96fps without problems. Do some research.
...what a pile of crap. This is the feeblest thing I've read in ages. This is NOT the future of anyone's cinema - the whole point of E-Cinema / D-Cinema is to eliminate the cost of making and distributing film prints, Maxivision48 would DOUBLE the fucking print cost! For those who don't know, there are as many different film formats as there are inventors, and Maxivision48 isn't even in the top ten. Good grief.
"It's not the fact its based on "old tech" thats the problem, its the fact its based on the most unstable OS ever thats the problem"
As a loyal Mac-head, I'd have to point out that there are versions of the MacOS that make Win98 look positively stable. 8.6 for example, more memory leaks than you can shake a stick at.
well done for bringing up Hotmail - I remember back in '96 or '97 thinking how great it was - free and easy as it was. Now? You can pay for an upgrade to make it vaguely useful in terms of capacity, but the spamming is so extreme that if I look at my Homail inbox now I see 608 unread messages, 604 of which are spam and 4 are messages from hotmail telling me my account is full. Even better, my Junk folder shows ANOTHER 571 instances of spam. By contrast, apart from ONE very regular (twice a week) Korean spammer, my iTools has been COMPLETELY spam free for nearly 2 years. That's a service worth paying for, even if it isn't worth $100.
this must be some new usage of the word that I was not previously aware of.
I hate the Romans already!
I'm not sure that's fair, AMD can compete just fine with the 2200 Xeons. It's the 2530 P4s that are giving it headaches.
have you pushed the Super Nashwan button for extra speed?
first lamp post?
could someone enlighten me as to haw much an "assload" is, approximately? When I take a dump, I get maybe half a kilo of loaf-matter at most - usually a lot less. Do Americans take bigger dumps?
and homosexuality
The rainbow is also widely used to denote something as gay friendly.
I'm really pissing you off, aren't I? :-]
I'm pretty sure it was those two Boeing 767s that did for the skyscrapers. Arrogance is indeed powerful, but not THAT powerful.
if you Tv were'nt capable of showing broadcast TV it would be a monitor - and they are exempt. Same goes for video cameras, unless for some reason they have a built in TV tuner. The system sounds basically unfair, and yet works remarkably well. Bit like the British constitution.
what are you all talking about? I've never heard of a keyboard that could close a window. Are you taking the piss out of me or what? Imean, my car has electric windows, but I don't control them with a computer keyboard. Stop jerking me around!
what's Windows?
oh fuck off
what does Alt-F4 do?
they can fuck off, I reckon.
yeah, we have those in the UK too, and they're illegal. The most popular was the highly reflective type that would always "burn out" when flashed by the speed camera and yet looked completely normal to the naked eye. They were outlawed some time ago.
It is. If you think that's "thorough" you should try the London Underground - they have more CCTV cameras than you can count, the pictures from which are analysed by a computer (neural net, no less) and they track via your travelcard going through barriers. If you lose your card and go and tell them, they can recount your journeys for you quite easily. It's prtty spooky.
how likely is it that a Slashdotter would have a wife, let alone a girlfriend too?