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Which means it's not even remotely comparable for professional work. Keep in mind that it's not just the amount, but the type of compression that's decisive. Spatial codecs (also known as intraframe schemes) deal with each frame independently. That is to say, they don't apply calculations across a set of frames, even when much of the information is repeated. Temporal codecs (also known as interframe, of which H.264 i…
I have seen some 5D stuff that was pretty good and House used one for an episode. I think the Epic is going to be a big hit (size, 5K raw) and I expect the same of Scarlet.
House is engineered for television, not big screen projection. And it has no time of money for serious effects. Also, it's mostly shot in situations with very controlled lighting. Add all that up and it means there's a lot that they can get away with. It's great that they did. But that was very recently, and again, the original question was 'why didn't this happen a decade ago?'.