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Up to you! I like to watch the content in its period accurate format.
Wouldn't that be the original film?
Do you or kstrauser make films? Please enlightening me more on the nuances of personal preference?
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Up to you! I like to watch the content in its period accurate format.
I watched it in a theater with much better than NTSC resolution. VHS is only period accurate for things released straight to VHS.
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Wouldn't that be the original film?
So pedantic. Can you access the original film? What is a VHS? Do you or kstrauser make films? Please enlightening me more on the nuances of personal preference?
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So pedantic. Can you access the original film? What is a VHS? Do you or kstrauser make films? Please enlightening me more on the nuances of personal preference?
Personal preference is fine! Describing VHS as “periodic accurate” as though that was these films’ original format is the silly bit.
Since the film does not run in theaters indefinitely and at the time VHS was a common format, among others.
Given film reciprocity and resolution related to period produced film stock and processing techniques, VHS and other reduced resolution formats from the same period, look better, to me! than rescans(4k, which super35 barely supports) and up-resing. Again IMHO because I guess people take this otherwise.
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I get how a film buff might care, and agree the original version should be available, but isn’t there space for people who just want to see the story but experience it with modern levels of image quality? The technical details of technology at some point of time is definitely interesting to some people, but as say the writer or others associated with the creative and less technical aspects of a film I may find the te…
The problem with that is the content is usually shot with the certain definition in mind. If you don't film certain scenes from scratch, they can end up looking weird in higher definition, simply because certain tricks rely on low definition/poor quality, or because you get a mismatch between old VFX and new resolution, for example. It's a widespread issue with the emulation of old games that have been made for reall…
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Personal preference is fine! Describing VHS as “periodic accurate” as though that was these films’ original format is the silly bit.
Silly to you. Again, to you. Since the film does not run in theaters indefinitely and at the time VHS was a common format, among others. Given film reciprocity and resolution related to period produced film stock and processing techniques, VHS and other reduced resolution formats from the same period, look better, to me! than rescans(4k, which super35 barely supports) and up-resing. Again IMHO because I guess people…
What do you mean 'again'? You never said that in your original comment.
Given film reciprocity and resolution related to period produced film stock and processing techniques, VHS and other reduced resolution formats from the same period, look better, to me!
What you're describing is just nostalgia, nothing more. That's fine, no need to rationalize it.
Why stop at VHS? Why not copy it a few times back and forth between tapes?
4k, which super35 barely supports
I agree, but regular blu ray is 2k
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> most HDR content is too damn dark anyway. It's not, though -- it's entirely the problem with players. Not just software players but also TV's. There are lots of TV shows now that are available in 1080p SDR and in 4K HDR. When you play them both on any player or TV, they should have the same brightness in "regular" scenes like two people talking in a room. They're meant to. HDR is only meant to make a handful of ele…
Also just to piggy back on this, every television I have ever purchased has been calibrated like HOT, SICK ASS from the factory. Step ONE every time I buy a TV is to spend a half an hour or so using tons of calibration images to get it dialed in to a sensible setting, and it's shocking how much a lot of them need changed. Almost every TV comes calibrated to be used as a display unit in the store which means contrast…
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Really? VHS with its grainy 240 x 320 resolution is better than a blu ray?
Yes, on a 28" flat crt sony trinitron from 1995
I eventually foisted it off on some deliverymen for free. They didn’t believe me when I told them the weight. When they finally lifted it, it was gratifying to hear one grunt, “Damn. I guess it really is 200 lbs.”