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Are 4K blu Ray players available? Or is that industry standard?
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Is video technology approaching the limits of human perception yet? As many have argued with audio, has the technology surpassed the human eye's ability to detect differences in quality, or are we almost there?
We're not there yet, but we're not far off.
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Meh. I was there a long time ago.
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durdencommatyler wrote:Meh. I was there a long time ago.
Then you're not watching the right setups.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Meh. I was there a long time ago.
Then you're not watching the right setups.
Could be. Or it could just be something I don't really notice because I don't care. It's probably a combination of both.

I'll tell you what I did start to notice a while back, that trend for TV's to make movies look like bad Soap Operas. If that's progress, you can keep it.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Meh. I was there a long time ago.
Then you're not watching the right setups.
Could be. Or it could just be something I don't really notice because I don't care. It's probably a combination of both.

I'll tell you what I did start to notice a while back, that trend for TV's to make movies look like bad Soap Operas. If that's progress, you can keep it.
It's a setting (called Motion Blur, I think?) that can be turned off. Most people just don't know to turn it off.
Yep. This pretty much confirms you're just watching the wrong setups. Even if you don't care, the difference between a DVD and a properly calibrated 4K display is absolutely MASSIVE.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Meh. I was there a long time ago.
Then you're not watching the right setups.
Could be. Or it could just be something I don't really notice because I don't care. It's probably a combination of both.

I'll tell you what I did start to notice a while back, that trend for TV's to make movies look like bad Soap Operas. If that's progress, you can keep it.
It's a setting (called Motion Blur, I think?) that can be turned off. Most people just don't know to turn it off.
I know. It's super upsetting.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Is video technology approaching the limits of human perception yet? As many have argued with audio, has the technology surpassed the human eye's ability to detect differences in quality, or are we almost there?
We're not there yet, but we're not far off.
Somebody PM me when we're there so I can upgrade from my 720p and ride that setup until the day I die.
720p? :shake:
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Meh. I was there a long time ago.
Then you're not watching the right setups.
Could be. Or it could just be something I don't really notice because I don't care. It's probably a combination of both.

I'll tell you what I did start to notice a while back, that trend for TV's to make movies look like bad Soap Operas. If that's progress, you can keep it.
It's a setting (called Motion Blur, I think?) that can be turned off. Most people just don't know to turn it off.
Yep. This pretty much confirms you're just watching the wrong setups. Even if you don't care, the difference between a DVD and a properly calibrated 4K display is absolutely MASSIVE.
Oh believe you me, I'm not watching that setup. I mean, unless I'm at my Moms and she won't let me try to figure out how to fix it for her. But that's only like once every three or four years.

Or if I'm at a bar. Can't really help it then.
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The difference isn't big enough for me to spend any money. I have a decent HD TV and that's all I need.
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Silence is probably Scorsese's worst movie. Pure masochism. Such a simplisitic and trite "crisis of faith." All text, no subtext. Blech.
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Currently admiring Morituri.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:Silence is probably Scorsese's worst movie. Pure masochism. Such a simplisitic and trite "crisis of faith." All text, no subtext. Blech.
Seeing this tomorrow. will report back. I hope to disagree with you, as per usual.
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Top Gun - no idea how many times I've seen this, but I can't say enough how much I love this movie
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McParadigm wrote:Currently admiring Morituri.
A "submarine-to-freighterbridge" one-shot just blew my mind.

As always, it's stunning to realize how much of Marlon's work Leo uses as bible.
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i might watch selma later tonight or tomorrow
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I watched "Sing Street" earlier.
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