There's little doubt that it was a progressive frame rate. There is no CRT in the world that would be capable of resolving that. I highly doubt they used a number of side-by-side CRTs. It seems very likely that they showed it on some sort of digital display technology (DLP, LCD, D-ILA, etc.). All of these technologies are inherently progressive. Any interlaced signal must be de-interlaced for them to display it.
I agree that it would be fantastic to see >24fps in movies. There is just to much money and infrastructure dedicated to the 24fps standard right now though. I highly doubt that we will EVER see a significant number of motion pictures shown at >24fps on film. The story could be very different as directors migrate to HD video to make thier pictures however.
Two or three digitally sampled masters from actual analog film reels, and you could remove film grain as well as steganography, leading to better compression
while I agree with the rest of your post, you should NOT be trying to remove film grain. Grain is an intentional part of the image. Different film stocks are chosen for different films and scenes specifically for their grain structure. On film where this is obvous to even a casual viewer is Minority Report. Speilberg gave this film an intetionally overexposed and extremely grainy look. You should NEVER try to remove grain from a film image.
I haven't seen this mentioned yet. I would urge everyone concerned with this issue to become members of the International Dark Sky Association. They have wonderful information on the issue and are very active in trying to get light pollution laws enforced.
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Interesting that the recorded video output is progressive, aside from the DVD output. Thats a great feature if the deinterlacing is done well. Deinterlacers in consumer RPTVs are notoriously AWFUL.
Ron Epstein, the admin at Home Theater Forum has had a review up for a couple days. Just click on the Reloaded link on the left frame. sorry for no direct link.
Almost everyone that buys Fullscreen pan and scam versions of movies do it because they dont want black bars on the TV. They want to picture to take up the whole TV. What gets me is that these people fail to realize is that in 2 years when they buy a 16x9 television they will have bars on the side! (or have to stretch the picture) Buying fullscreen DVDs is just an incredibly shortsighted practice. Not to mention the composition of the movie gets completely hacked to bits.
The ONLY way to watch any film or video production in its proper OAR (Original Aspect Ratio).
Although I agree that the VFX team did a fantastic job with Gollum, I don't think you could be more off-base with your idea that Serkis does not deserve as much credit for the character. New Line has some features on the creation of Gollum. Gollum's facial expressions pretty much EXACTLY match Serkis' performance. They show a split screen of Serkis and the finished Gollum and they are pretty much identical.
Well, this is really great and all, but what do we do after you drop dead from seeing your bandwidth bill after this slashdotting?
Back to Amazon I guess...
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There's little doubt that it was a progressive frame rate. There is no CRT in the world that would be capable of resolving that. I highly doubt they used a number of side-by-side CRTs. It seems very likely that they showed it on some sort of digital display technology (DLP, LCD, D-ILA, etc.). All of these technologies are inherently progressive. Any interlaced signal must be de-interlaced for them to display it.
I agree that it would be fantastic to see >24fps in movies. There is just to much money and infrastructure dedicated to the 24fps standard right now though. I highly doubt that we will EVER see a significant number of motion pictures shown at >24fps on film. The story could be very different as directors migrate to HD video to make thier pictures however.
Two or three digitally sampled masters from actual analog film reels, and you could remove film grain as well as steganography, leading to better compression
while I agree with the rest of your post, you should NOT be trying to remove film grain. Grain is an intentional part of the image. Different film stocks are chosen for different films and scenes specifically for their grain structure. On film where this is obvous to even a casual viewer is Minority Report. Speilberg gave this film an intetionally overexposed and extremely grainy look. You should NEVER try to remove grain from a film image.
I haven't seen this mentioned yet. I would urge everyone concerned with this issue to become members of the International Dark Sky Association. They have wonderful information on the issue and are very active in trying to get light pollution laws enforced.
Interesting that the recorded video output is progressive, aside from the DVD output. Thats a great feature if the deinterlacing is done well. Deinterlacers in consumer RPTVs are notoriously AWFUL.
Ron Epstein, the admin at Home Theater Forum has had a review up for a couple days. Just click on the Reloaded link on the left frame. sorry for no direct link.
Almost everyone that buys Fullscreen pan and scam versions of movies do it because they dont want black bars on the TV. They want to picture to take up the whole TV. What gets me is that these people fail to realize is that in 2 years when they buy a 16x9 television they will have bars on the side! (or have to stretch the picture) Buying fullscreen DVDs is just an incredibly shortsighted practice. Not to mention the composition of the movie gets completely hacked to bits.
The ONLY way to watch any film or video production in its proper OAR (Original Aspect Ratio).
Watch the movie, not the bars!!
Although I agree that the VFX team did a fantastic job with Gollum, I don't think you could be more off-base with your idea that Serkis does not deserve as much credit for the character. New Line has some features on the creation of Gollum. Gollum's facial expressions pretty much EXACTLY match Serkis' performance. They show a split screen of Serkis and the finished Gollum and they are pretty much identical.
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Well, this is really great and all, but what do we do after you drop dead from seeing your bandwidth bill after this slashdotting? Back to Amazon I guess...