"Club Penton" - Ask questions to Hollywood insider "Penton-Man"

[Blu-Ray Watcher]

Penton, when is ASM filming in New York? I wanna drive up there to check it out.

[sharkshark]

Originally Posted by Dennis M

Add myself, and I'm sure Shark as well, to the Thank-you list. It's a beautiful Disc with great packaging and extras. A professional undertaking through and through. But honestly not really a surprise coming from the Sony Camp.

Also, thanks again to Sony for the 4K screenings they made available. It's my hope that we'll see more catalog presented this way.

Job well done!!!

Huh, wha?

Yeah, it's crappy that it's $25 on AZN.ca, and $13 at .com. Go figure.

And let's all take a moment once again to make fun of Dennis for skipping the 4K - I even saved him a seat! (not really... )

[androvsky]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I don’t get out much (on the internet forum front) these days so I’m wondering if there is comparative interest in this title on the other outside Blu-ray software forums or, are folks there more interested in discussing other topics/movies than Marty’s taxi driver movie? Some…many? of you guys still be co-inhabitants of other forums, no? I would think Taxi Driver be of some cinematic importance, no matter where be the enthusiast venue.

Here's this week's blu-ray thread in the off-topic section of the gaming forum I spend most of my time at:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=426402

Seems split between excitement for Tron and Taxi Driver, with a side of arguing over A.I. A surprisingly even split; considering it's primarily a video game forum, one would think the two Tron releases would drown everything else out (granted, Tron Legacy was pretty divisive on neogaf).

[Dennis M]

Originally Posted by sharkshark

Huh, wha?

Yeah, it's crappy that it's $25 on AZN.ca, and $13 at .com. Go figure.

And let's all take a moment once again to make fun of Dennis for skipping the 4K - I even saved him a seat! (not really... )

It's $19 at futureshop. But still not as goood as amazon.com.

As for missing the 4K, how dare work interfer with my hobby. Time to find a new profession.

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema

You've probably been receiving alot of these messages, but I wanted to tell you to pass along thanks to those at Sony who were responsible for Taxi Driver. A great film with a great presentation and package. The 12.99 price was icing on the cake. This is how I want my classics treated and Sony did an amazing job. I expect nothing short of perfection from that 1962 feature film that's been mentioned a couple of times in this forum.

Agreed 100%

Fantastic presentation and excellent design for the case/book/package Whoever designed it, did an amazing job.

Pro-B

[PaulGo]

A bit more info about the 3D technology used in the next Spiderman:

http://www.hdguru3d.com/index.php?op...news&Itemid=59

[Doctorossi]

Ok- time for me to join the chorus. I spun up my Taxi Driver disc last night and couldn't be more pleased. What a fantastic feeling to see some of my favorite cinematography of all time so lovingly treated and beautifully presented! Thanks to all responsible for this stunning release.

[Penton-Man]

Just returned from NAB, where I might immodestly say that the ‘hit’ of the show was the F65 –

YouTube - Sony New F65 CineAlta Digital Motion Picture Camera - True 4K and Beyond - NAB 2011

matched with those spiffy SR Memory Cards, which you slide in its rear end…..to record on, of course.

which, as I mentioned before NAB (https://forum.blu-ray.com/insider-di...ml#post4516806) would only mildly compress the native data rate to 4:1 which seemed perfectly acceptable to androvsky and Bobby Henderson…as well as the camera connoisseurs at NAB.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Blu-Ray Watcher

Penton, when is ASM filming in New York? I wanna drive up there to check it out.

Giving out that sort of specific information to you fellas is frowned upon by my colleagues because once *word gets out* it has a tendency to make it more difficult regarding things like crowd control, etc. All I’m at liberty to say is….very soon.

Now, if you were to tell me that you were interested in playing a small role in the movie, I would say that you should have gotten your butt up to NYC this past week and met with Sarah (i.e. see the tweet about Fiona’s Tale) - http://twitter.com/SaraConte

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by PaulGo

A bit more info about the 3D technology used in the next Spiderman:
http://www.hdguru3d.com/index.php?op...news&Itemid=59

The future looks good in 3 dimensions –http://www.twice.com/article/466866-..._ray_Discs.php

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

Ok- time for me to join the chorus. I spun up my Taxi Driver disc last night and couldn't be more pleased. What a fantastic feeling to see some of my favorite cinematography of all time so lovingly treated and beautifully presented! Thanks to all responsible for this stunning release.

Well, if you like “cinematography of all time so lovingly treated and beautifully presented” -
http://vimeo.com/22053639

prepare yourself for another premium Blu-ray offering in the future about a guy who rides a camel rather than drives a taxi.

[aygie]

Hey Penton

Speaking of NAB what was the reaction to the new Final Cut? Did you get to see it? I've watched the keynote a few times and it does look brilliant, just wonder where the rest of the Apps (Motion, DVD studio Pro etc) are....

[Constitution 101]

Originally Posted by PaulGo

A bit more info about the 3D technology used in the next Spiderman:

http://www.hdguru3d.com/index.php?op...news&Itemid=59

That looks very cool...I used to read that guy in Home Theater all the time.

[Blu-Ray Watcher]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Giving out that sort of specific information to you fellas is frowned upon by my colleagues because once *word gets out* it has a tendency to make it more difficult regarding things like crowd control, etc. All I’m at liberty to say is….very soon.

Now, if you were to tell me that you were interested in playing a small role in the movie, I would say that you should have gotten your butt up to NYC this past week and met with Sarah (i.e. see the tweet about Fiona’s Tale) - http://twitter.com/SaraConte

I sent in a email to FTextras@gmail.com last week.... and I haven't heard anything back . Is that a bad sign?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Blu-Ray Watcher

I sent in a email to FTextras@gmail.com last week.... and I haven't heard anything back . Is that a bad sign?

^
I can’t speak for third party providers.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by aygie

Hey Penton
Speaking of NAB what was the reaction to the new Final Cut? Did you get to see it?....

No, I didn’t. My only time spent with that sort of thing was to see how the sales support engineers were presenting the important fact that there was native file support for the SR Memory card files built into the Final Cut and Avid editorial systems (with plug-ins).

So, in essence, the SR data file can be worked natively , without a transcode with editorial systems like Final Cut and Avid, or, for that matter, high-end products from Filmlight and Blackmagic used in some DI suites.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by aygie

Hey Penton...

I've watched the keynote...

As far as keynotes go, I found Douglas Trumbull’s address at the Digital Cinema Summit to be most sobering and honest regarding all the recent celebrity internet hype regarding higher frame rates for all motion pictures and I guess you could say that he is the grandfather of that sort of thing (scroll down to DCS 2011 keynote, which I think is the third one down on the menu)….http://www.nabshow.com/2011/newsroom...erview_KEY.asp

Afterwards, several cinematographers discussed with me their cold or even frigid feelings for higher frame rate acquisition for dramatic motion pictures (in 2D), as I first alluded to here in this past post - https://forum.blu-ray.com/insider-di...ml#post4565520

in which ^ I see I failed to mention the venue of the 24 vs. 48 fps demo (for 2D) which I personally viewed and, for the record, was at the 2010 Cine Gear Expo and was presented by Arri. Anyway, I was reminded by a colleague in Vegas that a similar previous audience response to higher frame rate acquisition occurred during a presentation at Sundance and was alerted to this video clip by another well-respected filmmaker,Stu Maschwitz –
http://www.macvideo.tv/camera-techno...icleId=3213230

P.S.
imdb link for Stu -
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0556179/

[Penton-Man]

Regarding this past post from 4/3/2011…. https://forum.blu-ray.com/insider-di...ml#post4570702
Turns out, 11 days later (while I was attending NAB), Doremi issued this press release- http://www.dcinematoday.com/dc/pr.aspx?newsID=2297 (< i.e. "The process of achieving such a high frame rate for the 3D content was overcome by utilizing two (2) synchronized V1HD-2K™ Doremi servers to play back the left and right eye respectively.")

As I mentioned on 4/3, it ^ would require two synched servers to do that demo.

I’ll give Jim one thing, he certainly has a *creative way* of downplaying the additional cost of another digital cinema server and its installation to theater owners by expressing the implementation as “only slight software modifications”.

[Penton-Man]

Snippets of comments and behind-the-scenes F65 footage shot by Curtis Clark, Cinematographer and Chairman of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Technology Committee, who b.t.w. also spearheaded this previous digital camera vs. film camera assessment study back in ‘09 -
http://www.theasc.com/news/News_Articles/News_218.php - which essentially found all, and I mean all, digital acquisition/post (at that time) in need of improvement in order to equal the picture quality of film camera acquisition.

Seems that challenge has been achieved (and possibly surpassed ) with the F65 –

YouTube - Sony F65 4K Camera Unveiled

[sharkshark]

Cameron downplaying the cost to others to see his vision come to past? Colour me shocked...

Yeah, that F65 beastie sure does look purdy, thanks for the links. Amusing to think of this tech trickling down to SLRs in the not-to-distant future.