Ron Boster
Screenwriter
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Somethimes it sucks to be an early adopter/niche consumer. I feel like we have to beg to get products they should be bending over (backwards) to give to us.
Ron
Ron
I feel like we have to beg to get products they should be bending over (backwards) to give to us.So true it's sickening!
So in an effort to find out what's going on with Dreamworks, I called them. I got the Dreamworks operator and I tried to explain that I was a consumer and wanted to find out some more information about D-Theater releases. She kept telling me that this was a movie company and that I would have to have a name in order to speak to someone. After going over the consumer part again and again, she finally gave me the Dreamworks/Universal consumer number.
I called. The guy who I spoke with had no idea what D-Theater was, so after a brief education we were on the same page. I told him I was trying to find out about future releases on the format. He did take my information and advised me that he'd check into it to see what he could find out. We'll see, but I'm not holding my breath.
It's too bad we can't get some answers or more releases on this format.
Troy
Heads up. Gary Reber at Widescreen has just announced that DVE both 1080i and 720p versions are pending release 6/10.GRRRR
just have to point out that the above philosphy is exactly the PROBLEM with current HD mastering and D-VHS in particular. NOTE: this is not an anti-D-VHS post, this is an anti bad-HD-mastering post.
Please allow me a moment to rant! (thanks )
There should be absolutely no dual-mastering of "1080i" vs "720p" for film-source material on D-VHS. There should be only ONE HD encoding for film based material on D-VHS and it should be full 1920 x 1080 resolution images in 1080 24p form.
Progressive-encoding of native film source material uses LESS bandwidth that is needed for a 60Hz 1080I signal (which has had 3-2 pulldown already applied...how stupid is that?!?). Also, 1080P encoded images have the ability to look much sharper than "1080i" images because they will not be pre-filtered in the vertical domain as is typically done with "1080i" signals to reduce aliasing/scan-line flickering on interlaced displays. D-VHS is compatible with 1080 24P encoded content...so why are we still looking at 1080I/720P tapes?!?
Ok, rant over!
Wow, the things you will see in the movies that you have on DVD that you NEVER saw in the lower DVD resolution, you won't believe!You've got that right!
Last night we had 4 friends over to watch Terminator 2 on D-Theater projected onto a 9 foot screen. When the T-1000 first makes his appearance (naked), we noticed a certain "appendage" that none of us had noticed before!
I have seen this movie numerous times on DVD on a smaller 46" HDTV and don't recall seeing this. I'm sure that it was a combination of the D-Theater resolution and the bigger image, but you definitely notice things that you never noticed before!
And I didn't know that T2 was rated XXX! :wink: