Is IMAX better than 1080p? what resolution are they film?

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Originally Posted by Liquid-Prince

Whether I believe them or not is irrelevant to the debate... Yes you could count the grain on a piece of film. That doesn't equate to the resolution. Let's just for examples sake say that a piece of film has 100 individual pieces of grain. I can scan that piece of film at 2K or 4K and it will have those resolutions respectively regardless of the grain count...

In your example, no matter what resolution you scanned the film, it wouldn't have any more than your 100 individual grains worth of detail/resolution.

It's like saying a standard definition DVD has as much resolution as full HD because you can resize it to full HD. Yes you can resize it but the resolution in the actual source isn't full HD.

Say if you had a picture made up of 100 circles, no matter how many pixels you use to scan that picture, the resolution of the actual picture is still 100 circles.