n69n, well yeah one might think that and be paralized. But remember even if high definition discs would be launched today (instead of next spring
) it will take a lot of time for everything to be re-released if ever, so if you really want something really badly and meritorious you could buy it and enjoy it now, no? Also here's a dethi hint: Things shot or edited on NTSC videotape for which there doesn't exist a film master can be bought relatively safely cus when re-released on high definition it would be just upconverted so there wouldt really be much improvement in those particular cases (480 NTSC lines are always gonna be 480 NTSC lines even if you uprez it), so things like live concerts (those pre-HDTV) or the TV series that were NTSC videotape mastered (i'd think if Buffy first seasons and Star Trek The Next Generation as examples) (unless they bring down the house and redid them on film or HDTV if they still have all the negatives) could be relatively safe purchases
Is dethi buying 50 dvds a week these days? only his hairdresser knows for sure.
Now to Hogi Bear's words and numbers
*rubs hands like dethi fly
I corrected your 4K projector resolution figures cus 22,000 x 44,000 pixels is like UltraVioletSuperDuperTripleIMAX!
I mean numbers were off by 10x which in area is 100 times more detail
2160 x 4096 are the correct numbers
Now what's film resolution you wonder?
Well since film area is measured in mm, using a common rough figure of 70 cycles recorded per every millimeter in a negative.. (1 c/mm is at least 2 pixels/mm),
let's do sizes in rough order of increasing image quality (i'll round them a little for clarity):
2.40 Super-35 neg = 1400 x 3400
1.85 Widescreen neg = 1600 x 3000
1.375 Academy neg = 2160 x 3000
2.40 Cinemascope neg = 2500 x 3000 (or if you want a de-anamorphisized equivalent: 1750 x 4250)
2.20 70mm neg = 3000 x 6600
Now that would be roughly about the maximum recorded in THE negatives..
But we don't watch negatives on theaters, we watch prints made from internegatives made from interpositives made from negatives projected through a lens in a mechanixcal vibrating horse (a Projector) so the actual resolution on a typical average projection, the water flowing out,
is much less:
2.40 Super-35 projection = 800 x 1920*
1.85 Widescreen projection = 900 x 1700
1.375 Academy projection = 1200 x 1700
2.40 Cinemascope projection = 1400 x 1700 (or if you want a de-anamorphisized equivalent: 1000 x 2400)
2.20 70mm projection = 1750 x 3840
Now, there are several other factors that affect image clarity besides resolution (which is detail or frequency).
Like contrast modulation (amplitude of the diference beteween the lines visible: a dark grey/light grey pair of lines (or pixels) is much less visible than a totally contrasty black and white pair, and film resolution limits or boundaries are usually the faint greysh kind while digital pixels tend to be on the hard edged contrasty kind so they tend to look sharper all else being equal).
Also lack of graininess (noise) etc affect quality and clarity.
If you're reading betwen the lines you'll see that 1080 x 1920 if done optimally can rival or surpass many film formats.
2160 x 4096 Projection is probably good enough to represent even 70mm and be archival. (and Hogi Bear's 4x estimate of resolution was right
)
btw dethi kRaZy studies peg the practical limit of the eye at around 2000 pixels per image height so presenting anything better than about 2000 vertical lines would probably be unescesary
I think Beauty and the Beast in 1080 x 1920
Blu-ray will look gorgeu-serrr (Get a cave!)
*
due to the way anamorphic prints work, if extra care (i.e. superduper digital intermediates with enough resolution) is used Super-35 films could theoretically look almost like true Scope ones in projection too, but grainier.
). I've been spending too much time in my cave.
