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Topic: More d-cinema morons
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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 06-23-2004 04:00 PM
John, 'tis the mediocre-ing down of America. We seem to accept more and more of what is less and less -- the least common denominator factor. With good marketing, the majority of average Americans have been led to actually believe that MacDonalds is edible food. US corporations strive not for what is best, but only to that which will rise to the threshold that is just below the point of mass dissatisfaction. If they don't complain about it, it's good enough.
Perhaps this is enevitable; perhaps the great masses will never demand the best, but instead what is convenient and what is comfortable. And that's ok, as long as those who can and do appreciate quality will still have the ability to experience it, even though they are a minority. Yes, the masses will revel in the "reality" shows where the highlight of the evening is people eating bugs; but that doesn't seem to prevent the much smaller, minority audiences from being able to find the quality programs of, say, PBS or the other quality programming that keeps rearing it's beautiful head.
Luckly there are still artists and creative people who will not settle and it seems that the original inferior quality of the first TI DLP units, while the quality they were capable of may not have caused the average Joe to go screaming from the theatre, evidently, luckily, the creative community demanded more and they seem to have prevailed. What is the cost of the new Sony's 4K units? Given the many manufactures that are compteting in this market, it would seem that the prices for the newest projection technology (which is able to rival film) might actually fall over time, which didn't seem to be the case with the $150,000 entry point of the first DLP units. If that happens, perhaps all the average Joes may actually wind up with a technology standard for cinema projection that will not be any different for them or even for the more discerning pubic minority (the ones with eyes) than what they have gotten previously with film technology.
Hmmm....maybe things aren't quite as bad as I used to think.
Richard, any prices yet on the new 4K Sony, Barco and others? Where do they fall in relation to the original TI DLP entry units?
What impact does that have on home units? What should I be waiting for to buy for a video home theatre unit that will not cause me to pull out what little left of my hair is left?
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Frank Angel
Film God
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 06-26-2004 05:50 AM
quote: Paul Mayer
Theater-sized HD screens are coming and the very nature of theaters will change with them."
Put this gushing tripe right up there with, quote:
"In the next 5 years, film will be a thing of the past....DIGITAL technology will replace film in the way a movie is recorded, transported and then played back in the theatres. No longer will motion picture film be used in to show the latest movie in a theatre near you. Deeeee-Cinema will be more revolutionary than the introduction of sound was to the silent film era."
Paraphrased from a CBS NewsRadio "report" circa 1998.
This was taken right off a TI press release (so much for balanced reporting). Seven years later, what are there?....less than 75 TI DLP installs, and a bunch of them not even real purchases but Technicolor's embarrassing debacle of their 1000 video projector seeding program. Hell, they couldn't even GIVE the damn things away.
quote: Richard Fowler
NHK Network of Japan has announced that they are working on Ultra HDTV with 8K resolution
And won't this make the exhibitors who actually do invest in those 2K and 4K projectors, extrodinarily happy. They are looking at obsolete equipment before it's even out of the box.
As for that revolution transition from silent to sound. I sat through a demonstration of hand cranked projectors one afternoon at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY. And yes, it was wild to see all those antiques, most of them actual, working projectors. But what was even more impressive was one demo that was made with a few minutes of original footage from 1912 spliced to a JURASSIC PARK trailer. Aside from the beauty of seeing that piece of machinery from antiquity actually being able to run film and project it quite impressively on a modern theatre screen, what was really astonishing and enlightening at the same time to me, was that at the splice, a piece of film that was manufactured nearly a century ago was joined to one made practically yesterday and they both went through that projector as smoothly and without so much as a hiccup as if they were two reels from the same film spliced together. Now THAT'S backward compatibility! And it is a BIG factor in the success or failure of any technology. Just because the R&D guys can create a technology doesn't mean it will replace the existing technology simply because it can. Just ask the guys who invented 3D, and Cinerama, and Perspeca Sound, and VistaVision, and Fantasound, and Todd-AO, and 35mm 4 track mag, and TECHNICOLOR! and Kodak's CDS (right John?!), and even a simple thing like Long Play Reels. The list goes on and on; the industry landscape is strewn with technologies that were perfectly good designs, but they died because of other factors having little do to with their intrinsic efficacy. If the economic model does not work, it doesn't matter WHAT the technology can do....if no one wants to buy it, it's a dead in the water. Backward compatibility has been one factor that cut the gonads off many a technological "revolution" and relegated it to no more than an historic oddity.
These guys who salivate over digital had better take a long, hard look at history. NOTHING is inevitable.
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