I’ll have to dig into that dci standards site, but ultimately I figure as long as they are doing cinema releases someones making a 4K file. And since were talking about the 1% here… someone is making the gear the theaters use, so folks can just buy that and skip the “full time concierge” or whatever is putting these folks out of business one after the other.
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Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months agoEdit:
It’s called PRIMA Cinema
Great thanks for that.
I did a quick Google and it seems like that system never really got off the ground but I did find this thread where they discuss similar set-ups that are available: Bel Air Cinema and Red Carpet Cinema, but that last link isn’t working so…
sramder@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
If they are working in digital there will likely be a UHD quality master (depending on how it’s filmed) but the resolution of a scan isn’t everything that makes a 4k release - that includes special audio and premium HDR and, I believe, it’s the latter which can be especially time-consuming.
And since were talking about the 1% here… someone is making the gear the theaters use, so folks can just buy that and skip the “full time concierge” or whatever is putting these folks out of business one after the other.
That was my thinking, if they’ve spent six figures on a home cinema system they could just get themselves signed up as a small, albeit private, cinema and get the film sent to them that way. It may be these fancy services also make this available on billionaires’ yachts and planes, I suppose, so perhaps they are paying the big bucks for convenience. If a member of staff has to tell a billionaire “sorry you can’t have that right now” they are either getting the sack or being asked if throwing a zero on the end will grease the wheels.
It may simply be that these companies that provide this service are being circumvented by the 1% knowing a guy who knows a guy at the studios and there are ways. Back in the day, they might just have paid for an extra print to be made of the film.
sramder@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve really been wanting to check out one of those boutique Bluerays, I just haven’t had a chance. I was always an impulse buyer and and ended up grabbing the shittiest DVDs somehow… best thing I got was that monster prosthetic test from Boogie Nights which was delightfully subversive in execution, but not the cinephile content I was promised :-S
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
I’ve really been wanting to check out one of those boutique Bluerays, I just haven’t had a chance
There’s probably a releaser for every taste but folks like Arrow and Vinegar Syndrome focus on the quality of their products with a few extras to make them special but rarely fill them with tat.
It’s often the big studios (that JW4 set is direct from Lionsgate) or the very small companies that try and polish a turd (the condom is from Visual Vengeance who focus on shot-on-video films that are never going to have the beat quality picture) or the reboxers (like Nova Media) who can throw in all sorts of things you wouldn’t buy separately.
If you are just interested in sampling the image quality then they usually have a standard release. Keep an eye out for sales.
best thing I got was that monster prosthetic test from Boogie Nights which was delightfully subversive in execution, but not the cinephile content I was promised
That’s definitely a thing that happened!
sramder@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ahhh good old “reference quality”hard to beat but impossible to define ;-) And I can’t see what I’m writing anymore because beta app, so…
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Yes, I was nosing around the Kaleidescope website and stumbled across that. Those systems will set you back 10s of thousands of dollars, so they’d better be of the highest quality.
sramder@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Streaming is a pretty low bar, plus most studios weren’t even doing real 4K transfers for years ;-)
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
And 4k streams really aren’t.