Blu-ray in the Flesh

[KC-Technerd]

Oh yeah.... Thanks. I forgot about the DLP site.

I don't know that any theater is using the 4K stuff yet. It seemed implied by some earlier posts in the thread that there were.

I know that Star Wars Episodes II and III which were live action shot HD video used Sony Cinealta cameras which are 1080 x 1920 at 24 progressive fields per second.

[suprmallet]

Originally Posted by Shadowself

The biggest drawback to film is that it degrades over time and use. This is noticeable for films that show for a long time. If a theatre uses the same reels for a long time (a few months) the scratching of the media is noticable. The picture quality is noticeably poorer than when it was shown the first time. This should not happen once the shift to digital cinema is complete. Also of archival purposes film stored for 50 years is poorer quality than when it was brand new. It then has to be "restored" and transferred to new film stock. The new film is NOT an exact duplicate of the original 50+ year old film. However with digital and proper error correction coding the original can be recreated.

With proper archival and presentation techniques, a single film print can stay in excellent condition for decades. The biggest problem with film was that the colors on non-technicolor processed films (this was back when Technicolor was a process, not just a brand name) would fade over time, although supposedly now film stock has gotten better about that.

As far as better resolution, there was a film camera devised that shot two frames of film for each second (48 frames per second, but without the slowdown of shooting at that speed with 24 frames), that according to all eyewitness reports, looked better than any HD or digital projection currently out there.