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Author Topic: First Run Films In Your Home Theatre Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-12-2013 11:45 PM                        I'd really like to know what kind of codec this thing stores the movies in. It claims "twice as sharp as Blu-ray" or some BS like that yet it's running over an HDMI cable and is compatible with modern TVs and projectors with 1080p resolution. quote: Lyle Romer I can't remember who it was but back 20 years ago (wow I'm getting old), the projectionist at the theatre I worked at used to go to West Palm Beach every so often to run first run film for a multi-millionaire. Oh man. We had to build up 3 or more upcoming movies every single week for the executives at UA to screen in their homes. One of them was UA president Stuart Blair (whom no one missed when he left) as well as concession chief Bruce Taffet (whom no one missed when he left and damn he sure was peremptory). I don't remember who the 3rd guy was but he was much more quiet and patient. Very rarely did we ever send anything that was first run because first run was far too old. Them watching a first run movie would be the equivalent of normal people going to the dollar theater or renting it on VHS for 50 cents years after the movie came out for the home market.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-13-2013 01:02 AM                        quote: Joe Redifer I'd really like to know what kind of codec this thing stores the movies in. It claims "twice as sharp as Blu-ray" or some BS like that yet it's running over an HDMI cable and is compatible with modern TVs and projectors with 1080p resolution. The HDMI standard can support a data transfer speed of 8.16 gigabits per second (according to Wikipedia), compared to 48 megabits for Blu-ray. So, theoretically at least, this system could be using a bitrate that is way higher. But presumably this system is tied to 1080p, no matter how high the bitrate is. And as the content is delivered over the Internet, unless you've got a fibre optic connection, the download time for a movie that is, say, 100gb plus is not going to be rapid.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-13-2013 01:57 PM                        Blu-ray isn't sending 48 megabits over the HDMI. It's decompressed first and sent as uncompressed video. That's why I wanna know what the codec (and bitrate) is.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-13-2013 03:27 PM                     That video quality isn't going to be "twice as sharp" as Blu-ray unless certain variables are in place. Are the customers using some newfangled 4K resolution HDTV screen? That's a huge variable right there. How the video was mastered is another big variable. 2K? 4K? 8-bit color, 10-bit, 12-bit, 16-bit? Finally the way the video is encoded and delivered to the customer is another big one, after all no one on the consumer level or even the commercial movie theater level gets the equivalent of an uncompressed studio HD master. They always get a lesser version of it. What's the native resolution, color depth, compression codec, bit rate, etc.?  |  IP: Logged

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