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Originally Posted by CurrentlySober
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Thanks for the link! It's a pretty good read, and I think I get where they are coming from. If you have ever seen the new 3D TV's showing a movie in 2D at the super-high refresh rate (120, 240, 480 hz, etc), the video is so clear it's... weird. I saw Avatar, in 2D, at 240Hz recently and it looked like I was watching a cheap soap opera at first. Some people even called it the "soap opera effect".
It takes a while to appreciate the improve image quality, especially when the camera pans left to right, or 3D movies in general. Both look bad in the conventional format, but we have become used to distortion and don't even notice it much anymore (but I do).
I think people mistake "noise" for "warmth". For example, alot of people like the sound of vinyl records over CD's, or old tube amplifiers over modern amps and claim the quality is worse with modern technology, which is false. Records have pops and scratches, tone arms pickup the rumble and feedback, tube amps hum and suffer from internal feedback etc. All that noise is comforting to some people, but it definately sounds worse, not better.
In the movies, film is grainy and uneven, scratched, worn, etc. It "feels" nice, but modern digital is good and getting better every day.
Star Trek 2009 was shot on film and looks great, but it was converted, edited, and rendered to digital. The film grain is there but not the "noise" of film. For contrast, compare it to
DRIVE or
THE SOCIAL NETWORK, both of which were shot on the
Red Epic Camera. Just stunning image and color quality, with a dynamic range that is better than film.
I think I will check out The Hobbit HFR tomorrow night.
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Originally Posted by JFK
it's almost Xmas, splurge and see them both  |
Yup, that's what I'm going to do.