I anyone wants to be bowled over, I recommend going by your nearby Apple store and ask to be shown The Incredibles' teaser (the beltbuckle one in the BotherBear R1 dvd) in the Quicktime Pixlet format, it looks INCREDIBLE. Perfect. Beutiful. Deathie died and went to heaven.
The Pixlet format uses one of the new codecs that was created by Pixar/Apple and tho the file itself is just a little bigger than a PAL file, it looks amazing, no compression artifacts super clear super sharp super beautiful no noise no nothing but pure digital to digital perfection so clean and shiny, (those black gloves, those reds those everything!) be sure to watch it at least on one of the 20" or bigger widescreen Cinema displays or 20" widescreen iMacs (I saw it on a 20" iMac on CompUSA) I watched it at actual size, at full screen size, at more than DOUBLE screen size, (that's like watching it on a 40" to 50"! from two feet away, from a foot away from the screen, and i couldn't make it look bad! Perfect still frames too. btw i checked it's aspect ratio (I went to its properties file
) and it was exactly 2.39 to 1, the correct current Cinemascope/Panavision ratio. (Being a computer file it was in true square pixels). The guy in the store said they are all droolingly awaiting for one of the new 30" 2560 x 1600 pixels Cinema Displays to arrive so they can watch it on that! Did I say it looked amazing? Did I? Well it looks Incredible . Me wanna.Be sure they show you the Pixlet mov (it says something like 960_401.mov i think)
Oh they also had an ever bigger image size 1.78 pan/scan of the 2.39 Matrix II. It also looked incredible. No film grain. The guy demostrated how you could see reflections on the glass shards when Trinity went crashing through it by zooming the image real close.
There's supposed to be a Finding Nemo one but they didn't have it on that store
Now. I want to see The Incredibles in Pixlet. Now. It looked in many respects better than film.
And that's a lot coming from me.