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

On 6/4/2024 10:15 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

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

On 6/3/24 9:30 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
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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.

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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.

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I'm not sure what your point is. 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.
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 The big mystery is why if I can choose between an HD and a 4K feed on
something like the Netflix does the 4K version look better on my 1080
plasma?
 My theory is that 4K is using different compression algorithms.
  

It probably would look better, but I don't think Netflix gives you the option to watch the 4K stream on a 1080 device.
My TV and my projector are capable of different incompatible HDR options.  But I'm only ever shown the option that the device I'm going to play it on is capable of producing. And then it plays it at that resolution automatically.  Across all the different streaming platforms I use, I can't up or downgrade the resolution.  It's all automatic.