Posted by Ben on 10/11/05 16:32

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> 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?

Sorry if it wasn't clear, I was talking about the 35mm stock that ends
up in your local cinema.

>>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.

Ermm, 35mm film ;-)

>>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.

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