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

On 6/4/2024 7:33 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

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?
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My theory is that 4K is using different compression algorithms.
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It probably would look better, but I don't think Netflix gives you the
option to watch the 4K stream on a 1080 device.
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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.
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 I haven’t aveiled myself of the option in a long time, but I know some
streamer I use used to give me the choice. And the 4K looked better. Not
screamingly better like the difference between 480 and 1080 but still just
a little bit prettier.
 

I don't really think of it as a streamer but YouTube will let you select the resolution and in that instance 1080 or 4K will look noticeably better than 480.  I'm not a "gamer" so I can't speak to modern games, but I know old games, like *really* old games, would let you select the resolution too.  But in those games 4K hadn't been invented yet.  And neither had 1080.  LOL