Posted by trotsky on 10/26/05 11:56

moviePig wrote:

> 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.

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