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Ryan A Hart

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Just been to see Star Trek in blurry vision at our local cinema (great sound though).
Such a fantastic film only spoiled by the poor quality - can I ask any people who have seen Digital films at the cinema what it is like? I am so used to HD trailers that it is often a let down seeing them in blurry vision - to be able to see them in crisp digital would be the saviour NOT the gimmick 3D stuff that is currently coming out.
 
err film has higher resolution than most digital.

your theater is to blame, digital uses lenses for focus just like any other projector. a retarded operator can mess it all up.

"hd trailers" are barely hd. film is scanned at 4-8k which is many times the resolution of hd. hd projected on a theater screen would look blocky. i've seen some real bad digital prjection, the worst was one where when i sat close to the screen i saw the screen door effect, in other worRAB i saw the gaps between the pixels. the regularity of the pixel griRAB makes it very easy for the brain to pick out the grid patterns, and it was rather distracting. that was probably a 2k projector, at least i hope it wasn't a 4k.
 
The only advantage to digital, from my own experience, is you don't get the scratches and other marks that very quickly build up on the film version (even just after the first day of showing).

Projectors which respool automatically have reduced this but most projectionists still run the film through fingers when they first put it together (films are generally sent in multiple canisters and they have to be glued together manually).

It's even worse if it's an indepedant cinema and they only hire in the film a few weeks after it's already been played non stop at a big multi-plex.

(On another note my local Cineworld has obviously invested heavily in decent digital equipment as you can't see any pixelation even in the front row)
 
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