You can find the full interview here. Not very long but some interesting titbits on various projects including a new Terminator (he reveals nothing).

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    He and his great team did a bad job. 4k is dumb anyway but I want a high Def version of a movie to look like the film being projected directly.

      • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        They used AI upscaling. Not only it completely defeats the point of a release like this, it looks like a blurry mess that's paradoxically also oversharpened. People's faces jump from looking like a mannequin to one of those Ren & Stimpy closeups

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        Too many Ks. Unless you have a really really huge TV or you sit super close to it, and also have absolutely no vision problems, there's a pretty good chance you're not gonna tell the difference between 1080p and 4k.

        • xyzzy@lemm.ee
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          4 months ago

          Optimum viewing distance, optimum viewing angle—these are defined things. In my experience, most people are clueless about how to properly set up a TV. So yes, I expect if a TV isn't set up correctly, the difference between 1080p and 4K wouldn't be as noticeable. Transfer quality and TV quality also matter.

            • xyzzy@lemm.ee
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              4 months ago

              Not sure what point you're trying to make. 4K shouldn't be an option because you don't care about it? Most people aren't the target audience for 4K or even Blu-ray. You're always free to stick with streaming movies and driving a Camry, normal people do and it works for them.

    • reverendz [comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      Doesn’t film have a definition roughly equivalent to 2K?

      Not sure why they didn’t just do a digital transfer to 2K.

      • xyzzy@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        No. 8 mm is roughly equivalent to 2K. 16 mm 4K, 35 mm around 5-6K, and 70 mm around 6-12K. 35 mm is the most common.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        I don't really think going higher than 1080p really does much for a movie, after that point the finishing returns start to set in unless you have an absolutely giant TV or you're sitting super close to a still pretty big TV. Maybe for vidya games or something it could make a difference or something filmed in native 4k could potentially look a bit better but especially for something being digitized from a film negative, it can be a choice between keeping analog grit or smoothing it all out digitally and I'd prefer a movie shot on film to continue to look like it was shot on film.