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IMO watching a few sci-fi movies in 4k+ looks ridiculous - I start noticing the difference between CGI environment and actors and it kills the immersion complet
by rubber_duck 6y ago
IMO watching a few sci-fi movies in 4k+ looks ridiculous - I start noticing the difference between CGI environment and actors and it kills the immersion completely, it goes from "that character is really there" to "this guy is larping in front of a green screen"
- colechristensen 6y agoA lot of it is the lighting, I think. Higher resolution, better color replication, and frame rate make very obvious the fact that there seems to be a magical glowing orb following around the characters right behind the camera. Immersion breaking because you can get away with it with less quality, it's more difficult to notice. Something that I've also found more and more irritating is the foley artists doing ridiculous things for sound effects, especially in nature documentaries, but all over the place really.
- skybrian 6y agoSo, um, why do things that make games and movies look bad? I'm not sure why we need anything above HDTV for video or games.
- ayyyolo 6y agothat's not the point - they were saying that retroactively going back and viewing old content on 4k, you can easily spot the CG/issues etc. ex: Farscape - all the CG was rendered in low res, so even when you view a 1080p copy it looks silly. Imagine all the content that would have to be re-done and upscaled to make it watchable in 4k.
- skybrian 6y agoIt still seems like it would be better to try to reproduce the original experience by viewing it at the original resolution.
- danielheath 6y agoAre you going to keep a CRT TV running in your house to do so?
- skybrian 6y agoNo, but I wonder if there is a good way to emulate one?
- danielheath 6y agoMost SNES emulators have a mode for this.
- piva00 6y agoGood luck watching movies in NTSC or PAL, I for sure don't want to be watching movies on a 720x480 window.