Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Who needs 4K?

Andi's got it. I want more resolution, period. Not for the sake of it
looking more 'real', but for the sake of quality. To preserve the potential
for the experience. This is something that people who turn their noses up
at high-fidelity-philes don't get. Higher resolution allows for the finer
resolving of detail. Even if that detail is grain, noise, motion blur,
reverb trails, perspective and spatial cues, etc. - I want to see and hear
that. Right now there are a small number of theaters in NYC that have
installed 4K projectors. I've definitely noticed the difference. Some
theaters have beefed up their audio reproduction systems with higher
headroom amplifiers. An amp can resolve fine details easier when it doesn't
have to work as hard.

Yes, there's definitely something to be said about it being the performance
that matters, not how it was captured. That a crappy dictaphone recording
of a great performance is still awesome. I agree, but how amazing would it
be to have had a master tape recorder capturing that? How much better is it
to watch Friends and Seinfeld in HD, remastered from the 35mm? My opinion:
SO much.


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Andi Meek <kwikpasta@hotmail.com> wrote:

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> film-going experience. I don't want it to look like I could have shot it.
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> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> From: ph@cineaste.org
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 10:20:37 +0000
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Who needs 4K?
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