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Re: Hi Def versions of Pixar films?

Posted by Dave Plowman (News) on 10/11/05 15:29

In article <434bc02c$0$73620$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>,
Ben <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> The film stock that studios posses certainly has very much higher
> resolution than current HDTV standards, but the projected image that you
> see in a typical cinema is probably about the same or even poorer than
> HDTV resolution.

Are you talking about electronic projectors or film ones?

> Kodak did a study into this in the early days of
> digital projection and found that some cinemas were equivalent to only
> 900 horizontal pixels (approximately PAL quality) while the average was
> iirc in the region 1500 or so.

Wonder what source those projectors were using? In the early days it was
U-Matic, which doesn't get close to broadcast PAL.

> Basically the current generation of 2k
> digital cinema projectors (2048 horizontal pixels) should look better
> than what most cinemas are currently showing, and the next generation 4k
> projectors even better still.

Depending again on source.

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