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Am I missing something about HD?
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| WittyHandle |
I came across a listing the other day for a copy of Gone with the Wind in 1080p. How is this possible? My first thought was it's just a marketing thing, but I'm open to the idea that there's something I'm missing. You can't create detail of that kind that the original source didn't hold, can you?
I actually Lol'd when I saw a 1080 copy of Blair Witch. WTF?! |
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| chlola |
| Do you have a rabbit ears on your black & white? |
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| Meat187 |
Learn to interpolation. :p
Actually, most movies shot for cinema have a resolution that is more than enough for HD afaik. It's just a matter of a new master transfer. |
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| WittyHandle |
| quote: | | Originally posted by chlola |
Thanks for dooming my thread to failure by being the first to post in it :mad: |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
You can't create detail of that kind that the original source didn't hold, can you? |
Depends...
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Gone with the Wind |
Yes.
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Blair Witch. WTF?! |
No. |
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| WittyHandle |
| Why yes to one and no to the other? Of course the medium it was recorded on, but what about celluloid film allows it versus the hand-cam of Blair Witch? |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
Why yes to one and no to the other? Of course the medium it was recorded on, but what about celluloid film allows it versus the hand-cam film of Blair Witch? |
The reason is that 35mm film has a massive resolution. Probably Blair Witch was filmed on something weaker, too lazy to google. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
Why yes to one and no to the other? Of course the medium it was recorded on, but what about celluloid film allows it versus the hand-cam of Blair Witch? |
Because the fidelity of 35mm film is much much much higher than 1080p. In still photography its often recommended that to match a 35mm shot in fidelity your minimum megapixels is 12-15 and often 15-20 is best to get the same detail.
While older films wont match the quality of still 35mm its still much much more detailed when blown up than 1920x1080. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
The reason is that 35mm film has a massive resolution. Probably Blair Witch was filmed on something weaker, too lazy to google. |
Blair Witch was filmed on Super 8 and 16mm and it was shot in low light and processed to crap and back to give it that dirty quality. While it can be blown up and probably be fine at 1080p its not going to look much better. |
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| WittyHandle |
| So the limitation of the resolution of previous copies of Gone with the Wind are due to the projector / DVD player and not the source? |
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| Capitalizt |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
So the limitation of the resolution of previous copies of Gone with the Wind are due to the projector / DVD player and not the source? |
Correct. Film has a resolution much higher than 1080P..but until 10 years ago most TVs were limited to 640x480 resolution..which greatly limited the quality of image. With a 1080P 240hz TV, we are very close to reaching the maximum detail the human eye can see. |
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| WittyHandle |
| Well that's cool. Thanks for the info :D |
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