film look and 24p are definitely exactly like the vinyl thing. it's aesthetic and nothing more.
however, it's a big enough part of the aesthetic that IMHO turning on interpolation will have a detrimental effect.
what you could do is calibrate the screen a tad. turn any and all sharpening off, turn "dynamic mode" off, change the colour temp from that Godawful eye-burning blue to D65 (6500K, or "daylight", or "warm", or some such. white on the screen should match the clouds outside in colour, so maybe open a window and choose the closest), turn the backlight down a touch and kill the room lights.
back when cinematography didn't suck, shooters were taught not to pan faster than a certain speed for this exact reason.
hand-held action scenes look terrible for this reason. at 48fps it will help a lot.
also, you could try sitting further back from your TV if the room allows it (i always laugh when friends show me their 50" screens in their tiny rooms)
the eye is not a brain. the brain takes what the eye gives it and fills in the gaps. more information does not make it harder to do it's job.
gamers certainly don't have a problem with high frame rates.
the 120Hz TVs look shit because you're seeing it fail on complex motion (crossing objects, moving objects with insufficient motion-blur, repeating patterns like a pan across a picket-fence, hands gesturing, etc, etc). the result is warped edges, or areas where it's given up and just duplicated frames to get up to 120. so you see patches of smooth and patches of jerky jutting up out of the smooth with ugly edges between them.
this means people have been watching unnaturally smooth movies and not caring enough to say anything (though no doubt they've noticed).
48fps has been supported by the DCI spec for some years now.
also, TFA is a bit wrong. half the world shoots at 25fps so they don't have to fanny about with the audio when they show it on the superior PAL standard-def system. even that 1 fps difference is noticable, as anyone from PAL land who's watched a blu-ray that didn't seem quite right can attest to. and the 2:3 pattern of 24fps in 30fps that NTSC land takes for granted is the real headache. staccato motion that's accepted as normal... it boggles the mind.
kodak still have to worry. Jackson has not shot a single frame of celluloid for The Hobbit - he's shooting on EPIC 5k in 3D. that's about as digital as it gets.
i wonder in a few years whether people will complain that digital cameras that don't suffer the "rolling shutter" woobliness the current gen do are ruining cinema?
it's good to see now that framerate (like 3D, or celluloid) is just another optional tool to be used to craft a film. hopefully this will stir some kind of backlash against the "de-interlace everything" movement that's being exacerbated by the iTunes generation. people will complain that it didn't look as smooth as it did in the cinema:).
it'll also mean Blu-Ray will need to be updated to support 3D at 48fps... unless they speed up to 50i for the blu-ray. we'd all need new hardware regardless.
it wouldn't be "war" any more than netflix not being available is netflix at war with Italy.
i think google's best option here is to cut Italy off.
the Italian government has not acted in the interests of the people for a long time. google getting switched off wont change that, but it'll make the people even more pissed.
the main problem is i bet the "anonymous" person behind the lawsuit has mafia and berlusconi (and judiciary) connections.
standard procedure in all technical situations when communicating with non technical people.
like "there's a small problem with the server, but we're on it. no biggie.", when you're actually scrambling around for the install disks and hoping against hope that your data is still there in spite of the corrupted MBR on the system disk.
or some such other calamity.
of course, lives aren't at risk in most of our jobs, but people use the same jargon in any technical failure, and we as/.'ers should be able to recognize it immediately.
my reaction to the whole quake/tsunami went:
- big quake, oh, that's awful. - prime minister addresses the country. first thing he says (about the entire quake, tsunami, almost certainly tens of thousands dead) is that Japan's nuclear plants are all fine and in stable shutdown.
me thinks... oh, i didn't even THINK about nuke plants. why is he so quick to reassure about nuke plants above anything else in this disaster? i bet there's something horribly wrong about to happen at a nuke plant.
- something minor happens at fukushima. i'm like, here we go. - every update mentions vanishingly small chances of something i hadn't thought possible (after reading about BWRs on wikipedia...).
i quickly learnt that "maybe", or "there's a very small chance of" actually meant "has most certainly occurred". this has been confirmed by what happened since.
the Chernobyl reactor popped because it went supercritical in part of the core.
as TMI proved, even if the core is a sloppy mess, that isn't going to happen in a BWR design.
especially after it's been shut down for 4 weeks.
we could however end up with a nightmare scenario such as the Kyshtym disaster, which IMHO was probably worse than Chernobyl, but the USSR and the USA both kinda covered up.
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film look and 24p are definitely exactly like the vinyl thing. it's aesthetic and nothing more.
however, it's a big enough part of the aesthetic that IMHO turning on interpolation will have a detrimental effect.
what you could do is calibrate the screen a tad. turn any and all sharpening off, turn "dynamic mode" off, change the colour temp from that Godawful eye-burning blue to D65 (6500K, or "daylight", or "warm", or some such. white on the screen should match the clouds outside in colour, so maybe open a window and choose the closest), turn the backlight down a touch and kill the room lights.
it will make a big difference.
back when cinematography didn't suck, shooters were taught not to pan faster than a certain speed for this exact reason.
hand-held action scenes look terrible for this reason. at 48fps it will help a lot.
also, you could try sitting further back from your TV if the room allows it (i always laugh when friends show me their 50" screens in their tiny rooms)
sort of like how Avatar looked :) I still can't believe that abortion of a picture got an oscar for cinematography.
talking poop.
the eye is not a brain. the brain takes what the eye gives it and fills in the gaps. more information does not make it harder to do it's job.
gamers certainly don't have a problem with high frame rates.
the 120Hz TVs look shit because you're seeing it fail on complex motion (crossing objects, moving objects with insufficient motion-blur, repeating patterns like a pan across a picket-fence, hands gesturing, etc, etc). the result is warped edges, or areas where it's given up and just duplicated frames to get up to 120. so you see patches of smooth and patches of jerky jutting up out of the smooth with ugly edges between them.
motion interpolating TVs are now in most homes.
they're almost always left at default settings.
this means people have been watching unnaturally smooth movies and not caring enough to say anything (though no doubt they've noticed).
48fps has been supported by the DCI spec for some years now.
also, TFA is a bit wrong. half the world shoots at 25fps so they don't have to fanny about with the audio when they show it on the superior PAL standard-def system. even that 1 fps difference is noticable, as anyone from PAL land who's watched a blu-ray that didn't seem quite right can attest to. and the 2:3 pattern of 24fps in 30fps that NTSC land takes for granted is the real headache. staccato motion that's accepted as normal... it boggles the mind.
kodak still have to worry. Jackson has not shot a single frame of celluloid for The Hobbit - he's shooting on EPIC 5k in 3D. that's about as digital as it gets.
i wonder in a few years whether people will complain that digital cameras that don't suffer the "rolling shutter" woobliness the current gen do are ruining cinema?
it's good to see now that framerate (like 3D, or celluloid) is just another optional tool to be used to craft a film. hopefully this will stir some kind of backlash against the "de-interlace everything" movement that's being exacerbated by the iTunes generation. people will complain that it didn't look as smooth as it did in the cinema :).
it'll also mean Blu-Ray will need to be updated to support 3D at 48fps... unless they speed up to 50i for the blu-ray. we'd all need new hardware regardless.
we heard you like to program, so we put the program in your phone so you can program while you phone
that fucking song really is a mind-virus.
don't be fooled by the apparent ineptitude of the thing. it'll get in your head more than anything the RIAA can spew out.
i think it's an IQ draining virus. God knows how they found a common music-injection exploit in the general population.
fresh ones don't, except maybe a couple of atoms.
woooo, scary atoms
*munching on my bag of dicks and mocking you. savouring the flavour and not choking*
admitting fault is a retarded idea. that would set a dangerous precedent.
especially if there is no fault to admit.
google searches the internet. if the internet thinks such-and-such is a crook, google will report it as such, and doing otherwise would be dishonest.
Italy = on the verge of economic collapse
Google = on the verge of enacting phase II and taking over the world.
i can't see why a near bankrupt government would want to pick up something that fell off Google's gravy train...
young and needed the money?
it wouldn't be "war" any more than netflix not being available is netflix at war with Italy.
i think google's best option here is to cut Italy off.
the Italian government has not acted in the interests of the people for a long time. google getting switched off wont change that, but it'll make the people even more pissed.
the main problem is i bet the "anonymous" person behind the lawsuit has mafia and berlusconi (and judiciary) connections.
strippers make much more than hookers.
but your tomatoes are SO FUCKING GOOD
without google, bing's results will just return gibberish.
less coherent than timecube.
i take it recoupling the qubits once the parts are removed from each other is not possible?
if it were, you could use time-domain encoding - it doesn't matter that the information is random as such, just that something happens.
god, i read every word of that.
fuck you.
standard procedure in all technical situations when communicating with non technical people.
like "there's a small problem with the server, but we're on it. no biggie.", when you're actually scrambling around for the install disks and hoping against hope that your data is still there in spite of the corrupted MBR on the system disk.
or some such other calamity.
of course, lives aren't at risk in most of our jobs, but people use the same jargon in any technical failure, and we as /.'ers should be able to recognize it immediately.
my reaction to the whole quake/tsunami went:
- big quake, oh, that's awful.
- prime minister addresses the country. first thing he says (about the entire quake, tsunami, almost certainly tens of thousands dead) is that Japan's nuclear plants are all fine and in stable shutdown.
me thinks... oh, i didn't even THINK about nuke plants. why is he so quick to reassure about nuke plants above anything else in this disaster? i bet there's something horribly wrong about to happen at a nuke plant.
- something minor happens at fukushima. i'm like, here we go.
- every update mentions vanishingly small chances of something i hadn't thought possible (after reading about BWRs on wikipedia...).
i quickly learnt that "maybe", or "there's a very small chance of" actually meant "has most certainly occurred". this has been confirmed by what happened since.
the Chernobyl reactor popped because it went supercritical in part of the core.
as TMI proved, even if the core is a sloppy mess, that isn't going to happen in a BWR design.
especially after it's been shut down for 4 weeks.
we could however end up with a nightmare scenario such as the Kyshtym disaster, which IMHO was probably worse than Chernobyl, but the USSR and the USA both kinda covered up.
they were in the process of replacing the low enriched uranium with MOX actually...
those guys in the turbine rooms got ~4Sv right into their feet.
they'll probably lose them.
in Soviet Russia, radiation makes you stronger!
not terribly safe - the workers may have to quit smoking to keep their cancer chances the same.
100mSv is the point at which a rise in cancer rates above the error bars is observable.
but it's a small rise.
250mSv is getting more serious though.
is that you, 567632?