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SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 week agoCommercial digital cinema projectors aren’t even 8K. And movies look sharper then ever. Only 70mm IMAX looks better and that’s equivalent of 8K to 12K but IMAX screens (the real ones not digital LieMAX) are gigantic.
Also screen technology has advanced faster than the rest of the pipeline. Making a movie in a full 8K pipeline would be way too expensive. It’s only since recent years that studios upgraded to a complete 4K pipeline from camera to final rendered out image including every step in between. And that’s mostly because Netflix forced studios to do so.
True native non upscaled 8K content won’t be here for a long while.
turmacar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is the most “um acktually” of um actualities but…
For the Apollo 11 documentary that uses only 1969 audio/video they built a custom scanner to digitally scan the film with the intention that the originals will never need to be touched at least in their lifetime and its ~16k resolution.
Granted I don’t think you can get that version anywhere? But it exists.
Super cool doc by the way. Really surreal seeing footage that old at modern film quality. The documentary about the documentary is also really interesting.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yo dawg, I heard you like documentaries.
turmacar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
👈😎👈
The one about Peter Jackson making They Shall Not Grow Old is also neat.
Apparently he collects WWI artillery and they used his private collection for the sound recording.