4K restoration on Star Wars — Page 170

George Miller wanted to shoot Fury Road in native stereo until he realized how incredibly complicated and detrimental to the 2D picture quality it was going to be. I remember noticing a bunch of names listed under “3D camera development” in the end credits as I was walking out of the theater.

Alfonso Cuaron made a similar decision with Gravity. He originally planned on using stereo cameras, but then realized there were limitations a 2D camera didn’t have in capturing his vision for the movie. The vast majority of what you’re seeing in Gravity was rendered natively in 3D anyway.

Which brings me to my next point.

Even on movies like Man of Steel or Pacific Rim, where the director had no interest in 3D, the significant amount of cgi in the movie can still be rendered in native 3D and be used as an effective, eye-catching selling point for paying extra to see it that way.

Now, the other end of the equation is that all of these movies falling above a certain budget basically need to be in 3D purely for economic reasons. Even movies like Oblivion that weren’t in 3D at all need to sell the “formatted for digital Imax” angle in order to help guarantee a good ROI.

Han Solo IRL said:

HDR10 has wider colour space and depth which are definitely not gimmicks imo. I think those store demos just crank up the brightness and saturation because they think that’s what looks good to the layman.

Me i’m waiting for dolby vision to catch on and oleds to drop in price. Though what i really would want is a laser projector too bad that both it and oled cost a lot of money. 😦

Back to Star Wars. If Disney tried to wait till 2020, wouldn’t Fox just release it themselves and beat Disney to it?

I don’t think they could release anything without Lucasfilm’s permission. That would probably extend even to ANH post-2020.

My thinking is that Disney might come to their senses and realize that profits shared with Fox from an OOT blu-ray is still way more money than the profits they’d share from yet another reissue of the 2011 discs.

Fang Zei said:

I don’t think they could release anything without Lucasfilm’s permission. That would probably extend even to ANH post-2020.

My thinking is that Disney might come to their senses and realize that profits shared with Fox from an OOT blu-ray is still way more money than the profits they’d share from yet another reissue of the 2011 discs.

Working for a household name global company myself, I just can’t see them thinking that long term i.e. waiting until 2020 (when none of them will likely still be in the current roles).

Rightly or wrongly, they’ll be thinking of profits in the next year or two, surely?

The only problem with that comparison is that whoever took the photo didn’t properly set the camera to actually capture the difference. Now there actually is clipping going on in the hdr photo in the brightest area of the window that you can actually see more detail in with the sdr photo. I’m sure if you were in the room seeing it with your own eyes the difference in quality would become much more apparent than this photo comparison can convey.

Yeah, there is no way to actually show the difference between SDR and HDR on a normal screen.
Besides, most consumer-grade cameras can’t even capture the dynamic range of a SDR TV.

12 Bit color with HDR makes a huge difference. I’ve seen it in person. Not a gimmick.

That HDR photo looks artificial af.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

<72 hrs guys

Until what?

jedimasterobiwan said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

<72 hrs guys

Until what?

Celebration starts on Thursday with the 40th Anniversary panel, where we’ll either be vindicated after 20 years or we’ll be crushed with one swift stroke.

If it were me, I would wait until we know whether we need it or not. I’m not exactly hopeful at this point but it can’t hurt to wait and see. That said, if you want feedback on a draft then you could argue that it fits in either this or the Celebration thread.

SilverWook said:

Should we start a new thread for our potential response if we get stiffed, or keep such discussion in here? I have a rough draft of an open letter, (to be posted on twitter) but I’ve not been able to concentrate on it lately.

Start a new thread. Make sure the title is provocative, or at least gives clear intent.

I trust Wook’s editorial decision making. There’s no need to go overboard.

However, if he goes soft, I will give him an earful. 😦