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Author Topic: Disney apparently being sensible with Star Wars:TFA keys Scott Jentsch Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1061 From: New Berlin, WI, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 12-22-2015 11:26 AM                        If people don't have enough experience with 4K presentations, there's no way to expect them to tell the difference, unless the 2K presentation is really noticeable. I'm still hearing people say from time to time that they can't tell the difference between DVD and Blu-ray, even though the resolution difference is so extreme. Largely, it's because they've become very accustomed to DVD and the difference going up to HD is not immediately recognizable to them. However, take away the DVDs and have them watch Blu-rays exclusively for a long enough time, and they won't want to go back to the DVDs they once thought were perfectly fine.  |  IP: Logged Bill Brandenstein Master Film Handler Posts: 413 From: Santa Clarita, CA Registered: Jul 2013 posted 12-22-2015 01:41 PM                     This is true, and so is the Blu-Ray vs DVD issue, if your screen is too small or your distance to screen too great, and that's before you factor in all the "untrained" eyes who wouldn't know the difference between the pre-show ads projector and the cinema one. Our local Edwards cinema has Sony 4K projectors but the brightness is too low and the screen sizes too small for that resolution to matter. That's why I'm particularly interested in Imax and Dolby in this, because those are all large screens where it matters. So if the DI is 2K, that would explain why the dozen or so Imax film installations have such vast changes in picture quality. 2K-source DMR to 15/70 would be a huge step, obviously.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 12-24-2015 03:59 PM                     quote: Bill Brandenstein Sony 4K projectors but the brightness is too low 3D house? If so, they prob left the polarizers in front of the twin lens setup. Units gets too hot inside and bulbs lose their brilliance very quickly where by they get half life on the bulb, the envelope can be black from not enough air flow. Or, the suits that does bulb changes can't focus the bulb too well. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Bill Brandenstein Master Film Handler Posts: 413 From: Santa Clarita, CA Registered: Jul 2013 posted 12-27-2015 02:55 PM                     Monte, I'd expect all of those issues and more given the experiences I've had there. The last time I saw something I'd call amazing looking there was Ratatouille in 35mm. Now it's never better than acceptable-to-good, which is to say, never amazing, though sometimes okay. But we digress.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 12-27-2015 03:29 PM                        The other issue when it comes to home viewing is vision correction. How many people still wear their contacts at night while watching TV, or have an appropriate pair of glasses for when they remove their contacts. How many people in need of some vision correction go without because it's not enough to really affect them? I just recently updated the lenses in an old pair of glasses specifically because the image on my living room TV was a little fuzzy. It wasn't a drastic difference, but just enough for me to notice.  |  IP: Logged

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