How Far Digital Has Come Already

[Ducatista47]

This is not strictly about audio, but for those of us who follow film sound it might have a drool factor.

The insane resolution of Sony's Gigahertz DSD sound recording technology now has a counterpart in video. Have any of you been watching Sanctuary on the SciFi channel? It is nearly 100% green screen, and to keep up with the FX resolution the actual camera shooting is done with a RED One "camera."

Not to be confused with an earlier generation digital motion picture camera, such as the cameras that shot the newer Star Wars films, it is described as a computer with a lens and captures five times the information of HD. Yep, five times. This video will show what a piece of cake it is to work with as compared to my beloved but doomed media, film.

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/01/how_the_red_one.php

This graphic shows what is in store for the near future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UHDV2.svg

Clark

[Mr. Widget]

I was having dinner a few weeks ago with a buddy who works at ILM. He was talking about the Red One. Apparently it is still more or less a prototype, but it may be revolutionizing digital filming. It is supposed to be ridiculously inexpensive.

On a side bar, but under your initial heading... I installed a Samsung LN52A850 52 inch LED lit LCD TV last week... we popped in a Blu-ray of the recent Batman film and it was really creepy looking. I have been on film sets before and typically you can get a glimpse of the in-camera video feed that Panavision and other film cameras have via monitors just off set... they always look super contrasty and strange... this movie looked like that. While it was as sharp as sharp gets and typical digital noise and motion artifacts were minimal, the picture quality looked hyper real... not at all film like and not at all like real life.

I didn't have time to do any calibration or make any contrast adjustments, but I have never seen a TV image that looked like this... I can imagine just as some people like tweaked and unnatural audio, there will be those who love this look, but to me it was down right disturbing.

Locally there is a theater complex that has recently been renovated and they have several theaters with THX rated DLP projectors... they have looked pretty good... definitely the way of the future.


Widget

[CONVERGENCE]

Differences In Film and Digital Projection Resolution




SDS (SUPER DIMENSION) 70 (SDS 70) 22 MILLION PIXELS

35 MM NEGATIVE 12 MILLION PIXELS

35 MM PRINT 3-4 MILLION PIXELS


DLP 1-3 MILLION PIXELS



http://www.superdimension70.com/arti...en-article.asp


http://www.superdimension70.com/


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[Allanvh5150]

The Giga pixel barrier was broken years ago so the film industry is lagging more than a little.

Allan.

[CONVERGENCE]

The Giga pixel barrier was broken years ago so the film industry is lagging more than a little.

Allan.

Televison or DLP uses lines to describe it's resolution.
Film uses size of grain aperture lighting FPS.
Pixels is still the best way to compare both.

Film breathes more than DLP.

plus 70 mm films have 5mm of space to put 8 distinct sound track.

SDS 70 at 48 FPS can use 10 k quartz light. DLP is limited to 7 K quartz.

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[jcrobso]

I saw my first HDTV in 1983~84 at the CES show in Chicago. It was prototype analog system from Panasonic. I remember the years of battles of which system to use. I bought my HDTV in 2005 20 some years later!
Don't hold your breath waiting for this be at your local store. John