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The first talkies were artistically inferior to the best silent movies of the time, too. And shooting in black and white retained its charm for a long time afte
by piaste 3y ago
The first talkies were artistically inferior to the best silent movies of the time, too. And shooting in black and white retained its charm for a long time after Technicolor.
Proclaiming that a strictly bigger toolset is "[a]esthetically inferior" because directors are still learning how to use it is pure reflexive conservatism. There's no reason you have to show wrinkles just because you're shooting in 8k, it just becomes possible to do so while it was impossible before.
- forgetfreeman 3y agoPiss on "reflexive conservatism", the inferiority is pervasive and trivial to discern. Given HDTV made it's debut in 1998, unless making ultra-high-def media has a steeper learning curve than the Manhattan project I'd say your argument that this is down to directors and not the technology itself seems flawed.
- Mr_Minderbinder 3y ago>Given HDTV made it's debut in 1998 TV engineers started working on HDTV in the 70s. Sony demoed a HDTV video camera in 1981. HDTV made it's broadcast debut in the late 80s in Japan, under the name "Hi-Vision". First version of Rec. 709 was published in 1993.
- forgetfreeman 3y agoAll true, and high def broadcasts didn't begin in the continental US until 1998.