Later in the same article " Phil Barlow of Disney opened the batting by chooseing to attack Kodak, claiming that they were trying to delay the introduction of digital cinema. He said everything that kodak says about D-cinema is qualified by a but and they are refusing to realise that the existing business models will change. The supposed need for higher quality digital projected images which Kodak is expressing was just a means of putting off the day when film had to give way to digital images."" Denis Kelly reiterated that Kodak do believe that improvements in digital picture quality need to be made , for the future good of the industry, and that the current SMPTE work has highlighted those areas where improvements are needed. Phil Barlow said that the quality of the current projectors was quite good enough, and he would put them in 10,000 screens tomorrow if the price was right"

Seriously, I think the REAL problems of "D-Cinema" are yet to be discovered. It won't be until those projectors are put out into the field, en-mass, that people will begin to find out things like what breaks; how expensive it is to fix; how customers like it and, last but not least, how they perform in day-to-day operation with popper jockeys or undertrained managers at the helm. (I'm talking at couple thousand machines running for at least a year.)

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The Disney guy made an analogy about trying to improve the horse once the automobile was invented. The automobile provided many, many advances that the horse could not ever hope to achieve. Digital cinema may provide better means of distribution and the destruction of TES, but the meat of it will be the picture quality. Why invent the car if it goes slower than the horse?

I can't wait to see all of the digital artifacts in Disney cartoons. Since there is a lack of detail in cartoons, artifacts will easily be seen. Try compressing a cartoon frame into a JPEG and you will see what I mean. GIF works better for solid colors since it is a lossless form of compression, but digital cinema will not use lossless compression by any means. But of course that would mean that I would have to watch a current Disney cartoon. Bleh.

...and just what the heck did they 'explode' the grain in the Sorcerer's Apprentice for? It looks rediculous!

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Greg Mueller
Amateur Astronomer, Machinist, Filmnut

That just about does says it all for me.

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