HDR Discussion Thread

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Honestly couldn't care what Vincent thinks.

candor like that will make you some enemies around here (not me, just sayin)

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Waboman

Yeah, we both had a good old fashioned arse whoopin’. As long as the Seahawks beat the Cheesers all will be right. Looks like another beat down in KC.

It got so bad for us near the end when it was obviously quite hopeless as the Titans were playing like the Ravens during the regular season, I switched to my recording of the earlier Liverpool v. Tottenham soccer match to ease everyone’s pain.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

not nearly as shameless as, for example, this –

Sex Tape - An Apple Commercial - YouTube

more subtle, in the foreground is a portion of the back of an Apple 6K Pro HDR capable display
and the face in the background, - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post16735580

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

candor like that will make you some enemies around here (not me, just sayin)

I've got plenty of enemies around here and beyond, what's a few more? I just don't have time for hivemind groupthink these days, not that I'm offering myself up as some radical who's out to shake up the world. I'm just getting so tired of the age of YT micro-celebritydom.

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I've got plenty of enemies around here and beyond, what's a few more? I just don't have time for hivemind groupthink these days, not that I'm offering myself up as some radical who's out to shake up the world. I'm just getting so tired of the age of YT micro-celebritydom.

Yet you are micro celebrity on here, technically.

[Geoff D]

I know. It's all ironical and stuff.

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I know. It's all ironical and stuff.

Stuff and things. Can I have your autograph?

[LordoftheRings]

Short interlude (commercial) ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtZV...ature=youtu.be

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

I always enjoy your expertise input on the sets of Top Gun II
Tom is a fine young looking actor, I also like Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, the Golden Globe Awards with Ricky Gervais, the Red Carpet, the Hollywood elite, all the fun educational stuff including HDR.

Like spending WAY more than $100,000 to close down an airstrip at a naval air station for a reshoot (meaning had to come back and do it all over again months later) for this at a clear sunset - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...+#post16925412

In order to – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItNsvINsm-4#t=1s

this is also unique, in its own way, TOGO -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dbloom/.../#3bda62a82b38

and apparently the critics and fans liked it –
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...=316688&page=2

[gkolb]

Originally Posted by Waboman

Yeah, we both had a good old fashioned arse whoopin’. As long as the Seahawks beat the Cheesers all will be right. Looks like another beat down in KC.

Hey Wabo, the black and blue division rules. The Pack is back!

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by gkolb

Hey Wabo, the black and blue division rules. The Pack is back!

The Cheesers winning today was salt in the wound. Oh well, go Niners!

[Lee A Stewart]

DEG 2019 Report

Consumer spending on home entertainment rose 8.4% to a record $25.2 billion in 2019, spurred by the at-home sector’s biggest growth engine, digital, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group.

Subscription streaming, digital movie sales and digital movie rentals over the Internet all generated significantly more money than they did in 2018, DEG reported.

The trade association estimates consumers spent $15.9 billion on subscription streaming, which now accounts for 63% of the entire home entertainment market. That’s a 23.7% spike from 2018.

Digital movie sales, commonly known as electronic sellthrough, or EST, were up 5.1% to nearly $2.6 billion — while digital movie rentals, through Internet services such as FandangoNow, Redbox On Demand, Vudu and Google Play, were up 9%. This reflects “consumers’ continued engagement with VOD, increasingly through Internet services,” DEG reported.

Consumers spent a total of $5.9 billion on buying movies and other filmed content, either on Blu-ray Disc, DVD, 4K Ultra HD or digital, DEG reported. That’s down 9.4% from 2018. Disc sales declined 18.2% to $3.29 billion.

Rental spending dropped 12.3% in 2019 to $3.4 billion, DEG reported. On the digital side, a la carte streaming generated $1.96 billion, down 6.2% from the prior year — chiefly due to consumers’ shift away from traditional pay-TV services. Disc rentals, meanwhile, slipped 19.5% to $1.44 billion, the biggest chunk of which came from kiosks, which finished the year with estimated sales of $884.6 million. Redbox leads the kiosk market, with more than 40,000 red vending machines, generally situated at large grocers and mass merchants such as Walmart.

Also on the rental side, Netflix’s legacy disc-by-mail rental business brought in an estimated $301.2 million, while the country’s waning number of video rental stores — once the home entertainment sector’s dominant revenue producer — collected just $250 million, a 21.1% decline from 2018.

On the transactional side, the top-performing movies included Disney’s Avengers: Endgame and Captain Marvel, Warner Bros.’ Aquaman and A Star is Born, and 20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody. TV standouts included seasons one and two of “Yellowstone,” from Paramount; the “Game of Thrones” franchise, from HBO/Warner; Sony Pictures’ season four of “Outlander,” based on author Diana Gabaldon’s historical time travel book series of the same name; season nine of zombie series “The Walking Dead,” from Lionsgate; and season 12 of “The Big Bang Theory,” from Warner Bros.

At the same time that the DEG released its annual year-end numbers, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment shared some of its “Attitudes and Usage” study findings.

The key point: Home entertainment has evolved into a true multi-platform business. Universal found that consumers are using around three platforms on average, the most common bundle being disc purchase, disc rental and subscription streaming.

https://www.mediaplaynews.com/digita...-heights-2019/

[Noremac Mij]

Physical media is dead.

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by Noremac Mij

Physical media is dead.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

....this is also unique, in its own way, TOGO -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dbloom/.../#3bda62a82b38

and apparently the critics and fans liked it –
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...=316688&page=2

as per Siggy at https://www.company3.com/artists/siggy-ferstl/-

“I wasn’t in Aces but was in Dolby HDR. In Fusion I was tracking a 7k texture plate to a UHD image along with blending and masking. Also the lens defocus was done in Fusion. I did need to cache the output of fusion before going into color because I had 8 more layers and multiple OFX all compositing on the color side as well. All in all I had 9 source textures being composited and that’s prior to any supplied VFX mattes for actual coloring.”

[I DO BLU]

Originally Posted by Noremac Mij

Physical media is dead.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mJag19WoAe0

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Scottishguy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twtG-Rombe0#t=7m14s

[HDTV1080P]

Originally Posted by Noremac Mij

Physical media is dead.

As long as studios are releasing titles on 4K Blu-ray, standard Blu-ray, DVD, and audio CD's, physical media is alive.

For physical media to die. All Blu-ray, DVD, and CD players need to go out of production. Then every studio would need to stop releasing all optical discs in every format. We are most likely 10+ years away from that.

Physical media might become a niche format like Laserdisc where around 2 million consumers in the world support physical media every year.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Waboman

The Cheesers winning today was salt in the wound. Oh well, go Niners!

As a ‘neutral’, albeit suffering acute playoff PTSD, the Kansas City vs. Houston game the next day made me feel even worse. Occasionally I found myself, like an idiot, analyzing the picture quality of the broadcast rather than enjoying the content (their great comeback) ….avoiding the thought – how come we (the Ravens) couldn’t do dat in Baltimore?

I’d imagine with the Vikings and then later with the Packers playoff game you felt so compelled –

China introduce a new "kick proof TV" - YouTube

[Scottishguy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txjL...ature=youtu.be