Comments on: Digital Cinema: the “end of film reels”? http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2005/07/28/digital-cinema-the-end-of-film-reels/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:20:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: blake http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2005/07/28/digital-cinema-the-end-of-film-reels/#comment-4149 blake Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:34:48 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2005/07/28/digital-cinema-the-end-of-film-reels/#comment-4149 hellow my name is blake and i have a question, i completely understand that the film industry is leading away from film reals but my question is, what is the best quality that hollywood is recording in at the moment??? what is the best camera out there that has the best quality and would you say that this technology surpasses hd and blue ray disc or is it like i assume...... witch is that we do not have the technology in film captureing to fully take advantages of this quality in these formats much less the quality in tv's to display this technology once it is recorded onto a disc???? answers are grately apreciated!! hellow my name is blake and i have a question, i completely understand that the film industry is leading away from film reals but my question is, what is the best quality that hollywood is recording in at the moment??? what is the best camera out there that has the best quality and would you say that this technology surpasses hd and blue ray disc or is it like i assume…… witch is that we do not have the technology in film captureing to fully take advantages of this quality in these formats much less the quality in tv’s to display this technology once it is recorded onto a disc???? answers are grately apreciated!!

]]> By: Jenny Jones http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2005/07/28/digital-cinema-the-end-of-film-reels/#comment-17 Jenny Jones Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:43:52 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2005/07/28/digital-cinema-the-end-of-film-reels/#comment-17 Not to mention the cost of storing the bulky prints. I once tried to get a 35mm print of THE STRAIGHT STORY (an Oscar nominated film!) for exhibition and the distribution company informed me that it was their policy to destroy prints after 1 year due to the cost of storage. Call me an old-fashioned crank, but I love the scratches and pops, the sound of the gears running. Why go to a theater at all if it's the same experience as watching a DVD at home? As it is, movies look too seamless these days, what with the proliferation of CGI. Not to mention the cost of storing the bulky prints. I once tried to get a 35mm print of THE STRAIGHT STORY (an Oscar nominated film!) for exhibition and the distribution company informed me that it was their policy to destroy prints after 1 year due to the cost of storage.

Call me an old-fashioned crank, but I love the scratches and pops, the sound of the gears running. Why go to a theater at all if it’s the same experience as watching a DVD at home? As it is, movies look too seamless these days, what with the proliferation of CGI.

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