HoldenUnplugged wrote:Sorry i'm confused I have Sony hdtv 1080 tv what a blu ray player will not take advantage of that?
From what Read blu ray will look great on hdtv am i wrong?
Please set me straight on this.
Standard DVD resolution is 720p. The guy is talking about how his HDTV will only do 720p/1080i. The lower-case p stands for "progressive" which is like how a computer screen works. All the pixels get pushed out at once, and you have an effective refresh rate of 60 frames per second. The lower-case i stands for "interlaced" which works like a standard TV, with odd lines refreshed on the first pass and even lines refreshed on the second pass, with a refresh rate of 30 frames per second. (29.96 or something like that, actually)
Interlacing is bad for resolution. In movies, it also gives you nasty flicker. An interlaced 1080 pixel picture actually is 540 lines of resolution for all practical purposes. Most TVs now sold as HDTV can do 1080p which is true 1080 pixel resolution. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are 1080p native resolution.
Now, a 2K theatrical projector can do 2160p, and the Sony 4K system can do 4320p.
Blade Runner: The Final Cut was mastered at 4320p, hence the 4K designation. (Some shots, primarily FX shots, were mastered at twice bit depth and reduced to work in 4320p.) The 2K Technicolor Cinema Package version of
BR:FC was reduced by half in bit depth.
That said, I must say that seeing it at Santa Barbara's Arlington Theatre in 2K bit depth with a Kodak Cinema Systems/DLP engine system was absolutely divine. I couldn't tell you the difference between how it looked in SB on a 2K system vs. at The Landmark in West Los Angeles on a Sony 4K system. I must be a Philistine.
The superior sound system in SB sort of helped too...perhaps I missed some of the cues that the visuals were suffering because the sound system was so much better than in West LA.
Hope this clears a few things up...Ms. Geek
Yes, I really live in Los Angeles. Srsly. And yeah, life really does imitate art here. Especially now we've got those video billboards. No spinners yet. But I suppose that's next.