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Posted by moviePig on 10/26/05 13:05
trotsky wrote:
> moviePig wrote:
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>> I, too, noticed the conspicuous absence of any mention of DLP, which,
>> e.g., seems particularly relevant to earlier-discussed issues of
>> old/scratched/rare film... and maybe relevant even to incompetent
>> projectionists. Re DLP's quality, the argument has heretofore been
>> "DLP's not as good as film"... but that's increasingly turning into
>> the more mystical "DLP's *not* film". I know that, today, a 35mm
>> frame does carry more bandwidth... but a finger in the wind suggests
>> the approaching demise of that advantage. E.g., I think that Texas
>> Instruments recently released a 1080-line DLP chip vs. their previous
>> 780(?)-line champ. It seems plain to me that soon we'll be paying a
>> theater to see an exactly-like-DVD movie, but merely early, and
>> *possibly* at higher-res than we can afford to show at home. And,
>> though heretical, my belief is that (eventually anyway) nothing but
>> nostalgia will be lost...
>
> For the masses, anyway. Anybody that's really discerning will know that
> (the best) analog is better than (the best) digital in all cases,
> regardless of the medium.
I know (don't I?) that you're also talking about audio. And, your point
seems certain to be valid for both video and audio at the *start* of an
industry conversion to digital... because it begins as soon as digital's
difference from analog becomes "acceptably small". But when digital's
fidelity-shortfall inevitably reaches the threshold of biological
undetectability --just a matter of more digits-- then digital's
cleanness and perfect reproducibility has to win out, it would seem.
Meanwhile, until that threshold's reached, ye of exquisite perception
must needs suffer. (Come to think of it, there'll be diminishing
incentive for technology to actually go that final millimeter, because
there'll be a diminishing public who can tell the difference. So, just
hope you're not the last to be deceived.)
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