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Re: Ultra HD at CES said by MURICA:A selection of old movies which have 2K digital intermediates is your justification for why 4K will fail. Have you ever heard of NEW CONTENT? Anything new produced will be in 4K.
No, it's just the reason why it's not something worth worrying about for a long while. And no, you are incorrect, things are not being produced with minimum 4k workflows from end to end by default even today. It is much more common, but still not the standard. It's not the standard because the industry experts who create these movies feel that the improvement is imperceptible in most cases. Until the cost/time penalty approaches zero for doing workflows at higher resolutions, it's not going to be embraced across the board.
Even something as new and high budget as The Hobbit, while shot in 4k, wasn't done with a 4k workflow from end to end.
That decision to shoot An Unexpected Journey in stereo and at 48fps presented two new challenges to Weta Digital at the same time. By fxguide’s own calculations, Weta Digital had to handle source footage with 25 times more pixels than on a usual production. “It was a lot more information for us,” explains Eric Saindon, “so rather than the normal 2K it was 4K images – so four times the information. Then you go to stereo which was two times that and 48fps so double it again. The amount of information we had on this film was staggering. On a film like Avatar we had about a petabyte of information – for Hobbit we’re about five or six times that information.” While shot in 4k or 5K – the post pipeline was primarily 2K, stereo, 48fps.
However, 4k CONTENT is going to take a much much much longer time to have any significant library. This is why most of us just aren't that excited for it. I think we all recognize that we'll eventually own a 4k display because at some point that will be the only thing you can buy. However, as a headline item that's supposed to get us excited about future TV technology, it's a yawner. I want something that makes my currently library look better, not something that may give a marginal improvement on a hypothetical limited future library. |
