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Umm, if anything I should have gone older than that, to the 1950s or so when NTSC was ratified. We're still living with the gamma curve established at the dawn of TV which was based purely on what made sense for CRT. When alternative display technol…
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tanaka123 wrote: » HDR is just a wider colour gamut. What you really need is Dolby Atmos. Thats just one small part of it. The new color gamut by the way (bt.2020) is also part and parcel of UHD (UHD is more than just resolution). HDR is…
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bondjames wrote: » @BondJasonBond006, I'm curious. How can you watch a Bond film in 3D? Were they ever issued in 3D format? What am I missing? I'll have to respectfully disagree with Jason on this one in terms of the efficacy. Synthetic 3D …
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tanaka123 wrote: » Definitely go for True 4k for better detail. But then you have to weigh that up with how much content is actually available at the moment in true 4k. There are some UltraHD Blu Rays but not many at the moment. While there…
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tanaka123 wrote: » You can't get a true 16:9 image on a DVD without compressing it. It seems you assume that whatever the aspect ratio works out to with square pixels is somehow the "native" aspect of the format. Neither 720x480 (NTSC) n…
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"...horizontally compressed into 4:3". Says who? :) No pixels were harmed (or compressed) in the making of this film. The MPEG2 stream simply includes a metadata tag letting the player know if the content is 16:9/NSP or 4:3/SP. Think about it: i…
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Sounds like we are taking at cross purposes (quick: name the Bond reference! :) ) You are asserting that the native aspect for NTSC and PAL is 4:3, which it is. No disagreement there. I'm simply pointing out that is not intrinsically the defacto…
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One could just as easily say "if a 4:3 DVD video is played on standard 16:9 television without adjustment, the image will look horizontally stretched". You could argue that NTSC and PAL define a 4:3 image, but while DVD uses those signal formats,…
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Not true. By that same logic one could say "all DVDs are 16:9, and thats why they have to be encoded as square-pixel so that it fills 4:3" but that would not be correct either. DVD format supports either aspect ratio equally. Player support for b…
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DVD is 720x576 (for 50Hz base) or 720x480 (for 60Hz base), regardless of aspect ratio. Anything other than native 4:3 content is usually code as NSP (non-square pixels), in other words a digital form of anamorphic. Looks like the still in questio…
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If anyone is interested, I'm going to be doing wine parings with this winter's Bond Film Festival. Foolish? Perhaps. But I'll take any excuse to talk about Bond and Wine in the same paragraph. :)
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New, larger display installed in the 007 Theater at my house. Spent the past 3 weekends calibrating. That means its finally time for another Bond film festival. :) As is my tradition I run through the catalogue in chronological release order at a…
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Milovy wrote: » - Cut about 20 from the run time (mostly underwater stuff). This is really interesting because thats one of the things I really really like about the film.
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I really do adore this film, probably my favorite if I had to pick only one, but the one thing, ONE thing I would change, the one which is quintessentially embarrassing, is the horribly uncoordinated chroma keyed window view during the final climax/…
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bondjames wrote: » Regarding blu ray players, I didn't think there was much between them to be honest. When you look at the output at the pixel level, there can be enormous differences. Whether one can "see" them or not is more of an acade…
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There is only one BD player worth considering, and that is the OppoDigital. Not going to get one for £200 though. I'm not a fan of soundbars on principal, but if you must, Paradigm makes a half decent one but again, your budget precludes. I'd…
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I think at this point the down right bizarre circumstances surrounding this thread's settings have gone on so long that the original reasons, whatever they may be, are inconsequential and its become nothing more than an issue of saving face. By th…
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Could someone with the regular (non stellbook) edition share a half decent shot of the back cover? I'm getting my custom cover ready in advance and need the specs off of it.
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TripAces wrote: » My two cents: EON made a mistake by not re-setting CR in the 50s/early 60s and leaving Bond in that era. This would freeze him, chronologically, and make him a Cold War hero again. The fear, of course, is that today's audiences w…
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DaltonCraig007 wrote: » ...the 1962-1989 period... Which I affectionately refer to as "The Golden Age of Bond". :)
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bondjames wrote: » DN also succeeds on many levels because of attributes that aren't popular these days. Namely, sexism and overt masculinity. Can you see Bond today dealing with Taro the way Connery did? Sadly, it's less likely (more likely that …
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Well this is all very fascinating to me. As to the notion of Van der Zyl having a screw loose or whatever your choice of phrase, if hypothetically someone like Connery lost their mind and became a raving lunatic, shouting about not getting enough…
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I honestly wasn't paying any attention to the whole "unofficially official" diatribe....until I looked into the Nikki thing. Now I don't know what to think. Seems like more of an indictment than this image posting thing...
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Holy poop. The only times an entity like EON should even notice their imagery, graphics, et all being used is when A) it is used to the effect of misrepresenting EON or B) if money is actually being made off of the use of said material. Fans con…
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JET007 wrote: » What in particular do they break? We covered some of this in the IMAX thread but when I say they break the baseline, I mean they use a too wide and tall subtended image angle, and the surround configuration sucks for anyone …
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boldfinger wrote: » (...) they both tried to convince me that the picture has to be like that because its HFR, which is the least logic explanation I could ever imagine. And they seemed to have understood what my complaint was about. Regret…
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No inquisition, I'm just very curious about such things. :) Yea Barco makes nice stuff. Their laser light units are what IMAX based their twin-projector 4K standard on. When you talked about it being overly sharp, were you referring to SPECT…
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Perish the thought. :) I think that once you get beyond the initial novelty, spending 2 hours with that thing on your head is going to get old. Academically speaking you'd actually get a better movie screening by simply sitting close to a 1080 l…
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boldfinger wrote: » I doubt that that has anything to do with 4K per se though. Precisely. Almost no one has actually seen UHD as of yet (which is why I asked what AceHole was basing his assessment on). Virtually everything on the marke…
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AceHole wrote: » There is a cold, nontheatrical element to 4K quality that seems to take away from the experience. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it is not really 'better'... What are you basing that on? What did you see in 4K, whe…
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