See the PDF kindly linked by the sibling (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43919991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43919991): • “The highest resoluti

See the PDF kindly linked by the sibling (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43919991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43919991): • “The highest resolution that the expert assessors could discern in the highest performing movie theater was about 875 L/PH. • “The horizontal resolution averaged over the six multi-burst groups measured on the screens of the six selected movie theaters was about 715 L/PH.” L/PH = lines per picture height, i.e. vertical resolution This was for 35 mm film. Also, well-mastered DVDs with anamorphic widescreen can look astonishingly good on an output device that doesn’t interpolate its lines.