Picture quality in cinemas?

Ally Dick

I go to the movies a fair bit, and I am surprised at the lack of HD quality picture on the cinema screens. Was at 'Steve Jobs' last night and the picture quality was average. Surely the technology now exists to project a HD quality film to screen?

reubenreuben

Which cinema?

Lights On

You sure the movie wasn't in 3D and you forgot to put the glasses on?

murpho999

Strange thread. You do realise that movies in cinemas have always been HD before TV was?

ScumLord

Ally Dick wrote: »

I go to the movies a fair bit, and I am surprised at the lack of HD quality picture on the cinema screens. Was at 'Steve Jobs' last night and the picture quality was average. Surely the technology now exists to project a HD quality film to screen?

Cinemas are usually 2k or 4k.

reubenreuben

Once you have seen a 70 mm movie then tv dont compare

grindle

To be fair, there are plenty of larger screens with 2K projectors which can look crap in the first third of seats. Most screens aren't cleaned too often either (because it's a pain in the ring).

Spudmonkey

You sure it wasn't meant to be that way?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_%282015_film%29#Filming

To distinguish each of the three product launches depicted in the movie, Danny Boyle and cinematographer Alwin Küchler implemented three different film formats: 16mm for 1984, 35mm for 1988, and digital for 1998. They also wanted each of the film's three time periods to visually reflect Jobs' own development at the time. For instance, Küchler explains that the filming at Flint Center, De Anza college for the first act combined the graininess of 16mm film and setting to accentuate a provisional, spontaneous look - much in the vein of how Jobs is portrayed at that time. The third act, shot with an Arri Alexa at the Davies Symphony Hall, incorporated an aesthetic and color palette that were intended to be representative of Jobs' own design philosophies of the iMac and subsequent Apple hardware. Küchler describes his experience filming Steve Jobs as "brilliant and challenging at the same time," and that the goal was to "make sure that the visuals kept up with the words," in reference to the production's collaboration between Boyle and Aaron Sorkin.

stevek93

Most digital cinema projectors offer 2K resolution—only slightly more pixels than HDTV. Sony 4K provides exactly four times the pixels of 2K. The closer you sit to a 2K digital projection images, the more the illusion of a complete image begins to fall apart.

The_Valeyard

Screen 4, in Odeon blanch there is dirt on the middle left of the screen.


Pisses me off

DareGod

murpho999 wrote: »

Strange thread. You do realise that movies in cinemas have always been HD before TV was?

The bigger the screen the worse it looks.

Ever seen a cinema screen next to a tv?

Duggy747

Was watching Vertigo in one cinema as part of a Hitchcock season, thought the image was pretty rough and pixelated looking.

Made sense to me when the film ended and the DVD Menu came on :pac:

AnonoBoy

You're sitting too close probably.

Ally Dick

reubenreuben wrote: »

Which cinema?

UCI Tallaght Screen 5

kneemos

A cinema screen is 1045pop×15 fairies.
Whereas a TV sceeen is 4754wik×45 pixies.

Explains the difference.

Ally Dick

Spudmonkey wrote: »

You sure it wasn't meant to be that way?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_%282015_film%29#Filming

Cheers Spudmonkey. Thanks for that. So it wasn't my eyesight !

The Backwards Man

Who cares what picture you see?

Ally Dick

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Who cares what picture you see?

Saturday night at the movies ?

The Backwards Man

Ally Dick wrote: »

Saturday night at the movies ?

Yep, the Drifters were mad yokes for shifting at the pictures weren't they?

Bet they never watched one film

kowloon

I can't see in HD.

Pinch Flat

I go to the cinema a good bit, went to see Brooklyn in Liffey valley a few weeks back and was impressed with the picture quality.

murpho999

DareGod wrote: »

The bigger the screen the worse it looks.

Ever seen a cinema screen next to a tv?

No, sorry but I have never been to a cinema with a TV beside the screen Good idea thought they could do sign language for the hard of hearing.

Riesen_Meal

Do cinema movies not generally be 23/24fps with the exception of the odd movie like the Hobbit that is shot in 46/48fps?

Are they not "HD" regardless and its just the FPS where the "poor quality" lies?

Can't imagine watching a film in 60fps (like a game) I can imagine it would look very "soapbox"ey - like Breaking Bad etc?

Pinch Flat

I go to the cinema a good bit, went to see Brooklyn in Liffey valley a few weeks back and was impressed with the picture quality.

Knasher

I usually go to the cinema in Cork city centre. For a while there they had a wire coming down from the ceiling that dangled into a part of the picture on one of the screens.

AnonoBoy

Fieldog wrote: »

Do cinema movies not generally be 23/24fps with the exception of the odd movie like the Hobbit that is shot in 46/48fps?

Are they not "HD" regardless and its just the FPS where the "poor quality" lies?

It wouldn't be the FPS that's at fault, although if they managed to project at the wrong FPS it would make the picture look weird but it wouldn't affect the resolution as such.

mynameis905

I've always found the picture quality in cinemas to be slightly grainy and not as good as on my laptop or tv.

Ally Dick

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Yep, the Drifters were mad yokes for shifting at the pictures weren't they?

Bet they never watched one film

The dirty Drifters. I'm surprised that song wasn't banned