A Question About Grain The Blu-ray Movies?

[Anthony P]

Like Knight-Errant pointed out cars and chicken little where not created on film and so they should not have film grain. Many are not used to seeing FG on their TV. But FG is part of the normal process of film and so when it is not there, it is a sign of a bad copy and not the other way around. There is no way to have film without FG (obviously more expensive film would have finer grain then cheaper one) , and so when digitized with enough resolution it will appear in the film. You can filter (blur/soften) or over compress and then you will see the FG less, but you will also see less of the other details (the reason for going HD in the first place).

As for not seeing it in special effects, it would depend on other factors. if it is CGI and the digital master was created from the PC output that merged the film with the CGI then the special effect would not have the grain like the rest that came from film.