Posted by Andrew Maddison on 10/12/05 02:16

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Tricky Dicky wrote:

> "Andrew Maddison" <invalid.email.address.see.sig@resbh.co.uk.spam> wrote in
> message
> news:Pine.SOL.4.44.0510111632230.26912-100000@mimosa.csv.warwick.ac.uk...

> > I'm not arguing that film is a better resolution than d-cinema, but that
> > it's perceptually more pleasing to the eye. A lot of companies involved
> > in digital cinema are investing money in designing systems to insert
> > film-like grain at the projection stage (not before as grain is by
> > definition very difficult to compress) to make the audience like the
> > picture more.
>
> Amazing. A bit like adding pops & scratches to CDs

A little - although it's more like adding a background hiss to the audio,
as pops and scratches would be more like specks of dust and base scratches
on the film (the little black ones that build up from repeated playing
through a dirty film path).

Andrew

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