So I've never been one for being on top of the latest gadgets, nor do I have an issue with keeping up with the Jones's.
However, I was at a local big box Warehouse store when I stopped to notice the flat screen 72 inch television connected to a Sony Blue Ray player. On it, they're playing 'Spiderman 3.'
The detail was amazing. Too amazing. So amazing, in fact, that it was less than amazing.
The scene where Harry is down after the big battle on the half-built skyscraper after the battle looked like it was filmed live with a camcorder.
You can see the background is fake and Toby MacGuire is flushed. Seriously, it looked like 'Spiderman: The Play".
Maybe the movies we've filmed aren't ready for Blue Ray. So far, only the CGI stuff looks good - the regular scenes look really amateur.
So much for the future.
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That's been a big problem with HDTV too. It shows off flaws that used to never show up. Production methods have been entirely upended to try and compensate, but it's slow moving.
Oh yeah, and who would pay $300 for a player and $50 for a movie when an upconverting DVD player looks just as good on a 720p set? You don't even notice the difference with 1080p unless you're using a set bigger than 50" anyway.
Wait... now I need to go check it out. We have a Blu-Ray player and have had it for a few months, but I swear we've only watched Kung Fu Panda on it, once. (We've been playing our movies on-demand as of late.) But now you've made me curious...
YES! I'm not the only one. Except I noticed it with HDTV because I've yet to see anything on blue ray. Everyone was telling me, "it's so detailed you can see the actors pores!" And I'm thinking, "ew." I like my actors flawless and my movies realistically fake.
When I was 19 and DVD players JUST came out, I made the mistake of paying $499 for a DVD player with DIVX (disposable movies that you can watch for $1.99 for 2 days, then it connected to a modem to re-rent it, or buy it outright.)
That was the last time I jumped on the newest technology.
But - it coulda been worse. It could've been laserdisc.
There's a little bit of good that came out of DivX: wide-spread acceptance of MPEG-4. That's what's driving the Internet video revolution since the quality is as good as MPEG-2 (DVD) in half the space.
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