I think the move to 4k and (eventually 8k)
is more about
the immersive aspect of capabilities. Or will be... While everyone is focused on the spacial
resolution,
temporal resolution is every bit as important. I would submit that
120Hz
(for 4 k...240Hz @ 8k?) should become the future (grows
proportional to spacial), and interlace must die. Thoughts? Which leads me to another question??? Why is
CBS (and
dragging Sony & others) so adamant about making sure 1080i is
included in
the upcoming h.265 spec? Is there more than religion at stake
here? Thanks...Mark (the other one...) -----Original Message----- From: Manfredi,
Albert E [mailto:albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 7:39 PM Subject: [opendtv] Re: 4k @ 60 fps encoded
into 15 Mbps
using HEVC Mark Schubin wrote: > As to cognitive dissonance, watching a
movie (or
opera) in a cinema > requires a financial outlay for a
ticket, travel to
the cinema, > blocking out time, and possibly such
other
costs/requirements as > getting a baby sitter, parking/transit
fees, dinner,
etc. If, after > all of that, the viewer doesn't like
the movie, then
all of the > expenditures of money and time were
foolish. But the
viewer doesn't > want to be a fool, so there is a
predisposition to
like the event. That cracked me up. I completely agree with this and your other
points. I
suppose that if the average joe went to the movies every day, some
other
activity would become the "event," and the movie-going would be
more
like watching TV. The theaters we usually go to suddenly all
switched over
to Sony Digital Cinema 4K, which is just about exactly twice as
much horizontal
and vertical as 1080p HDTV: 4096 X 2160. The ads and other
features that come
before the show, and before the actual movie previews, are instead
16:9 SDTV. We like to sit about half-way up the seats,
in the
stadium style theaters. So the screen looks quite large, compared
with how we
watch the 42" HDTV at home. Anyway, it's easy enough to "count the
pixels"
when the SD pre-show stuff is showing, but the Sony 4K, even on
the 2:35:1
blockbuster format, is beyond reproach, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm wondering
whether any more than that even makes sense in a home format, even
if 100"
screens became the new normal. A 100" screen is about 50" high and 87"
wide. At say 10' viewing distance (too close for comfort, IMO),
that's a
distance of 2.4 picture-heights. So that calculates out to an
angular
separation of the pixels of 0.66 arcminutes at the viewer's
vantage point,
which ought to be well within what the majority of people can
discern (the
literature indicates anything from 1 to 2 arcmin, many claim 1.5).
Even
acknowledging that any such numbers are just first order
approximations of
actual visual acuity. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in
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