Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Is Gone Girl a 4k DCP?

my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

»	Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE » Operations » Digital Cinema Forum » Is Gone Girl a 4k DCP? (Page 2)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1 2

Author

Topic: Is Gone Girl a 4k DCP?

Marcel Birgelen
Film God

Posts: 3357
From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2012

posted 10-21-2014 01:54 AM

quote: Bobby Henderson
My memory is a little fuzzy regarding the period during the previous decade when Netflix began its transition away from offering movie discs for rent via mail to an Internet streaming model. But I'm pretty sure Netflix never had a proprietary set top box device one had to buy in order to use Netflix streaming.

We're going pretty much off-topic, but I've done a bit of Googling to refresh my memory. Netfilx first released its streaming service on a set-top-box built by Roku for them back in 2008. At $99, it was a little bit more affordable than the REDRAY. It also became available on other devices rather shortly.

Netflix was never in the game of selling boxes, I guess their "custom built" STB was chosen as launch platform to guarantee a basic level of service and stability and at $99, I guess there wasn't much profit in it either.

| IP: Logged

Marcel Birgelen
Film God

Posts: 3357
From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2012

posted 10-21-2014 04:32 AM

To go further off-topic. My previous post wasn't entirely correct. As a colleague of mine mentioned, there was a period before this STB thing where you could watch streaming movies with your browser, but the plugins required for DRM essentially made it impossible to watch any other way than on your PC.

| IP: Logged

Martin Brooks
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 900
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: May 2002

posted 10-26-2014 05:42 PM

quote: Mark Ogden
I eventually saw it on a large screen at a carefully maintained theater in New York City, and it looked fantastic.

Which theatre was that? IMO, presentation quality at NYC theaters, which used to be quite good in at least a few prime theaters has become absolutely terrible. I find myself frustrated far more often than I'm pleased.

I saw "St. Vincent" the other day at a midtown theatre and while I realize this was a relatively low-budget movie shot digitally, it was presented with the 3D filter in place and it really looked like crap. Dim and off-color. I'm sure it will look far better on Blu-ray in my home than it looked in that theatre and that's really disappointing.

| IP: Logged

Shawn M. Martin
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 175
From: Arlington, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012

posted 10-26-2014 06:14 PM

"St. Vincent" was actually shot on film. It sucks to hear that it looked so bad there.

| IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1 2

Printer-friendly view of this topic

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.