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Mike O said:
danny_boy said:
Fang Zei said:
But for a scope movie like Star Wars, it really should be the full 2048 that's being used. 2K for scope is 2048:853, 2K for 1.85:1 is 1998:1080 and for 16:9 it's, of course, 1920:1080.
Yes---although commercial 2K cinema projectors can scale/stretch up the image in the vertical direction(thereby utilizing the full 1080 x 2048 panel)
And with the help of an anamorphic lens---optically expand the image horizontally.
For those who own projectors which have this same scalability function---It can also be done at home (but consumer anamorphic lens cost somewhere in the region of $5000-$10000).
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I have a Sony 4K 1000es projector and have watched Eps IV,V and VI at a resolution of 1706 X 4096.
The below screenshot is from projectorreviews.com:
They scale up perfectly and look nothing short of amazing.
Same applies to the prequels with Revenge Of Sith being the standout.
This screenshot below is from an AVS forum member :
How the hell does everyone know all of this home theater and technical information except for me?! God, I'm behind on everything. My life is a mess. Anyway, that last photo is frigging creepy. Is there a point to 4K unless you have a super-badass projector? I can't even tune my cheapo HDTV right. I fail at life.
Oh, I gave up on trying to calibrate a long time ago. It's impossible to do it "by eye," so I usually just pick whatever preset I like the most and stick with it. The tv manufacturers have gotten smarter about this, I've noticed. The 32" 720p lg lcd my mom got in 2012 with her credit card points actually looks pretty darn good on its out-of-the-box settings (blasphemy, I know). The only thing I did was change the aspect ratio from the default 16:9 (which overscans the image slightly) to "just scan," which matches the pixel ratio 1:1.
Compare that to the 40" 1080p sony lcd my dad got in 2008. For starters, its factory picture setting was "vivid," which always looks terrible. Motion-smoothing was also on by default, on a 60Hz tv no less (not a good combination). I remember hooking up the dvd player and gleefully switching the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 after nine long years, throwing on RotS as demo material. It was straight-up unwatchable on those settings! I chose a different picture preset and then went into the tv's various menus to turn off motion-smoothing and various other things. Went through this all over again once we got a blu-ray player. I swear the tv companies throw in all these bells and whistles just to justify the high price point, which is probably why most people don't change a thing once they get their shiny new tv. I mean, they paid all this money for it, so clearly that's how everything's supposed to look, right? ;)
So yeah, watching blu-rays on a 720p tv's default settings, my brain tells me everything looks wrong but my eyes like what they see. In fact, the "cinema" picture presets on both tv's look all wrong to me, even though I know that's probably closer to a calibrated setting. Perhaps "closer" is the crucial word here, as a calibration would strike the perfect balance.
The sony now sits in the basement awaiting a proper viewing space. Once I have that, and a little extra income, I might possibly become interested in getting it isf-calibrated (the painful irony is that the smaller, 720p lg is much more suited for it as lg is one of the companies that makes their tv's isf-ready). But it's honestly not as big a deal to me now as it once was.
It makes me nostalgic for that day, more than 13 years ago, when I hooked up the year-and-a-half old dvd player to a brand new 27" panasonic tube over s-video and everything looked and sounded perfect. Ignorance really is bliss.
