Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-02 (Sunday)

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 6/3/24 9:30 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

The Wolf of Wall Street (Apple TV+) - In glorious 4k. (But it's film,
and grainy, so I don't think this one really benefited much.)
   Yeah, I had never seen this before.
   If you enjoy funny stories about inveterate addict swindlers, this
2013 film is one of the better examples of the "genre", even despite
clocking in at 3 hours. Leo even does a pretty good job.
   Anyway, I did enjoy this.

Will you stop desparaging film? Film was always superior technology
versus 4K. There's still more grain than pixels. It's very tiresome that
you won't acknowledge this. Also, there's a video intermediary since,
what, the '70s? Nobody has edited on film since then.

I'm not sure what your point is.

My point is if the movie was produced on film and not video, that's not the
reason why the 4K transfer image isn't adequately dense.

My point is that some things (generally
stuff produced within the last 3 years) looks noticeably better when
streamed as 4k. Other stuff (generally films a decade or more old) do
not really seem to benefit from a 4k stream. I don't know the actual
technical reasons why. But I know what my own eyes are telling me.