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Originally posted by: cubebox
Gundark
CRI filmstocks are used in optical printers (had been used)
Exactly. It was used on the effects shots, like I said, to reduce the number of generations used in those shots. You have added nothing to what I said. As for your comments on grain, do you actually know what grain is? Grain is the silver halide particles that form the image; no grain, no image. Finally, as to whether or not all the details shold be captured in a resolution scan, as I said before, scanning @ too high resolution is going to reveal details originally obscured by generational loss, details that were obscured for a reason. Do you really want to see all the wires and other trickery and therefore destroy the illusion that the filmmakers have worked so hard to create? I certainly hope not.
Whether or not 4K scans will become the defacto standard in the future for HD cinemas has less to do with possibility and more to do with available bandwidth. Since proposed delivery systems for digital cinema include encrypted satellite transmission, I doubt that 4K scans will become the norm anytime soon.