Douglas Monce
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An elegantly stated point that I was trying to make in my long winded statement! DougAaronMK said:One screen shot comparison I would love to see is a frame as acquired by the scanner, and the frame on the blu-ray of a highly respected release. (ie Braveheart, Gladiator's second release, most Sony catalog titles, etc.) It seems naive to think that film, the result of a photo chemical process, could just simply be scanned into an array of uniformly spaced pixels, with the raw color data output from the sensor ready to be fed into an encoder frame-by-frame to create a digital video stream faithful to the projected look of that film. Without going into technical details, many of which I don't completely understand anyway, the nature of reconstructing an image from incomplete data the sensors actually detect makes that seem too good to be true. Even with "purist" goals in mind, the key seems to be judicious "digital work", not an absence of "digital work".