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Topic: A way to create 4K DLP???
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 07-04-2005 06:05 AM
The problem is, unless DCinema can be developed so that the digital projector can produce at least as good an image as the 35mm film that it is going to replace, be it 4K, 8K, whatever it takes, then this "rolling out" of various inferior resolutions before the goal is met, is going to be devestating to any kind of industry-wide standard. There are 1K projectors already out there (you know, the ones that the TI publicity machine hawked as producing an image "better than film.") Then came 1.3K, then 2K, and by 2007 is it? that we are going to have 4K projectors? So why are they installing 100 2K D-projectors that will be obsolete by 2007?
No one is going to tell me that the theatres that have invested heavily in these new yet inferior 2k units are going to chuck them out the window when the next generation of 4K projectors become available. This kind of hugely expensive technology doesn't easily get replaced. A theatre spends $120k on a piece of equipement, they don't stand up and do a jig when they are told that, Oh, yah, that 2K projector you bought last year and of which you are so proud is now condidered substandard, low-rez; you've got to buy a new one." Not gonna happen. The fact is, this rush to D-Cinema, because of the expense per unit is SO astronomical, whatever the industry moves to now will be what we will have to live with because of the expense to upgrade will be prohibitive. Luckily only a handful of 1k projectors actually got installed.
Are these units designed so that they can be upgraded to higher rez chips fairly easily? And even if it can be done with more or less ease, you KNOW that kind of an upgrade and alignement, etc, is still going to cost big bucks. Why would an exhibitor or ANY rational person buy into this kind of liability? especially one who's already been burned by getting in on the ground floor of DLP, only to find the second and third floors falling in on his head!
If I were an exhibitor and somehow someone convinced me that it was to MY economic advantage to install digital equipment, I would damn well insist that the manufacturer give me insurance that if the projector become obsoleted by higher resolution technology within say two or three years, they foot the cost of replacing whatever innards of the projector have to be replaced.
Bottom line (and the reason I am an anti-digital fan AT THIS TIME) is that they are putting this stuff out to early as a viable alternative to film when it does not meet the quality of film. That puts us in peril of being locked into a mediocre system that will be the lot of future generations. Just so that greedy people can make gobs of money, we, the general public get stuck with the uneven implimentation of technology which will vary from theatre to theatre, even within the same multiplex.
And you can take it to the bank that John Q. Public hears all the hype about digital, so he plops his butt down in a theatre that is claiming digital projection, but he has no way of knowing if this is a theatre that's got a 1K, 1.3K, 2K or a 4K video projecter in the booth. Yet you can be sure no matter what level of image quality he is going to be subjected to, he will have to pay the same $10 per ticket, 1k or 4k, makes no difference.
Because of what we do now, if we accept what is passable...what is "good enough," future generations may never be able to know what we all experiences when we see those incredible 70mm classics. Think of what a loss that will represent. In 2100 there won't be anyone talking about seeing sprockets on the screen or slight black lines at the edge of the screen at a 70mm presentation of LOA. All the efforts of digital technology will be gone to being able to have it converted to 3D and projected with a 2K video projector.
Excuse me....I am going to be sick.
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