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Topic: Industry screening of 'North By Northwest' (4K DLP)
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Jonathan Goeldner
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posted 11-08-2010 09:59 PM
Cypress, CA Nov 8, 2010 Christie Presents World’s First Full Feature Screening in 4K DLP Cinema Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece “North by Northwest” presented flawlessly on Christie’s premiere 4K Solaria Series Projector Christie, the leader in digital cinema projection, has presented the world’s first full feature screening in 4K resolution DLP Cinema before members of the Hollywood community. Held at the famed Mann Chinese theater complex in Hollywood, California, the screening was presented for the annual Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) technical conference.
SMPTE is the leading technical society for the motion picture industry. The 4K presentation on a Christie Solaria CP4230 projector, featured Alfred Hitchcock’s classic, “North by Northwest,” which was meticulously restored by Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging (MPI) with a process that included the highest available scanning resolution and played back using an Integrated Media Block from Doremi Cinema. “We were impressed by the 4K presentation of this timeless Hitchcock chase thriller,” said Wendy Aylsworth, SMPTE Engineering Vice President and Senior Vice President, Technology, Warner Bros. Technical Operations. “The image looked superb, and the audience gave the film enthusiastic and rave reviews. Both Motion Picture Imaging’s restoration and the digital presentation were excellent.” “The audience saw details in the 4K restoration that were unlike anything ever seen before,” said Brian Claypool, Senior Product Manager, Entertainment Solutions for Christie. “It’s not an easy thing to showcase new technology to an audience of engineers and technicians who belong to every discipline of the film industry. To get such a positive reaction from them is proof that superior 4K has arrived, and Christie’s 4K DLP Cinema solution meets the industry’s highest standards in image quality for spectacular 2D and 3D presentations.” The new Christie Solaria™ Series 4K projector line for digital cinema features the enhanced 4K DLP Cinema chip from Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and is designed to be compliant with the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) specification. It was the first 4K DLP Cinema projection system to be demonstrated publicly at IBC in September 2010 and launched at ShowEast several weeks ago, where Christie began accepting orders. The latest Christie Solaria CP4230 and CP4220 projectors feature the Christie 4K+4 advantage, which includes maximum performance for 3D, Christie Pixel Track™ technology for optimum image quality, simple maintenance procedures and the lowest cost of ownership of any digital projector on the market.
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hope the studios in turn follow and actually release more films in 4K - with the trend in film restoration/transferring in the 4K realm, the workflow should remain as such and downcoverting to 2K will become a thing of the past.
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Manny Knowles
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posted 11-09-2010 09:27 PM
Yeah, but Steee-eeve...
Have you seen what most of us see in theatres?
We're not seeing 35mm at its full potential so, compared to what most people are seeing, 4K is something to write home about. Would I like to see even more detail, sure!
Before we get too hung up on the theoretical potential of 35mm, let's remember that the practical resolution of 35mm nowadays is limited to the resolution of a DI -- so seeing something digital nowadays is very much like seeing it in its native form -- 35mm projection just tends to add artifacts, whether from duplication, handling, mechanical issues or any combination of the above.
"That's the fact, Jack!" (from STRIPES)
Okay, Steve -- I'm bracing myself.... LOL
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Frank Angel
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posted 11-09-2010 09:44 PM
quote: “The audience saw details in the 4K restoration that were unlike anything ever seen before,” said Brian Claypool, Senior Product Manager, Entertainment Solutions for Christie.
Except of course, Brian, the couple of hundred million people over the years who saw all that detail and MORE when they saw it in 35mm! quote: “It’s not an easy thing to showcase new technology to an audience of engineers and technicians who belong to every discipline of the film industry.
Especially when, in order to hype your own product, you insist on denegrating or in this case, just overlooking the fact that while this may look amazing for video -- it's amazing only relative to what DLP has looked like in the past, but not relative to what the source -- 35mm VistaVision film -- looked like and to which it can only EVER aspire to look as good as. It is never EVER going to look BETTER than the original; it can't, unless Christie and TI have been able to change the immutable laws of physics.
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