How to tell if a movie is HD or not

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by movie

I don't like the digital look either. I always feel the movies that are sharp with fine grain look the best. I recently viewed King Kong and the whole look of it did not appeal to me, just as heavy grain doesn't look good either.

I think both can look fantastic, and i'm sure if you added fake grain to well shot digital footage most experts would be hard pressed to see the difference (eg: add a light layer of grain to angels and demons and everyone would believe it was shot on film if they where told so).

[movie]

Originally Posted by Suntory_Times

I think both can look fantastic, and i'm sure if you added fake grain to well shot digital footage most experts would be hard pressed to see the difference (eg: add a light layer of grain to angels and demons and everyone would believe it was shot on film if they where told so).

I think you're probably right. Even if it is fake, it may give the impression of looking really good. As for the rest, some of us need to whine just a little otherwise bad quality transfers would not get remastered if everyone bought the artistic intent line for each and every movie.

[Trogdor2010]

If you see more artifacts (such as macroblocking or noise) and a more saturated color platete is the obvious ways to tell SD from HD. It's day and night on a big screen.

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by Trogdor2010

If you see more artifacts (such as macroblocking or noise) and a more saturated color platete is the obvious ways to tell SD from HD. It's day and night on a big screen.

Indeed.

[DaViD Boulet]

on a 106" screen, even grainy low-res 16mm film source material looks better in 1080p on blu-ray than in 480p on DVD. This is partly because of the better compression, partly because of the improved color space, and partly because the 1920 x 1080 resolutioin matrix does a much better job capturing fine/random information accurately... even if that is grain. DVD by comparison often generates an electronic-looking image of the same source because it's resolution and bit-rate can't accurately capture the information.

One example of a really soft and grainy blu-ray id Dreamscape (see my review at dvdfile). yes, a very "non HD" image in terms of not being eye-candy, but still a more natural and transparent presentation of the film source than the DVD.

[42041]

if you have to ask... get a bigger TV.

(or just sit closer)