Tarantino: "Digital projection is the death of cinema"

[Grace_Omega]

This is complete bullshit. I've seen movies in high quality digital projection and it's light years better than anything you'll get with the traditional methods.

Movie buffs are free to engage in pointless nostalgia all they want, but they shouldn't expect everyone else to indulge them.

 

[My name is Fiction]

I mean you got the same issue with framerates. 300 Frames per second? hype. 600? Sure but now i can not tell.

Let's not forget those aren't true FPS (Hz), just refresh of the same frame several times.
Fighter pilotes have been tested at seeing the difference between frames at upto 220 FPS.

But thats not their average perception at all times. Thats the effects of adrenaline overclocking the brain so you see in a higher framerate. So unless you playing DmC you can stay at 60 frames.

 

[Isra]

I don't know if it's the death of cinema. I think the death of cinema is the increasing prices of tickets, increasing quality of electronics at home and ease of access to films through the net. That said, blockbusters were still busting blocks last I checked.

I'll say this though - digital does not hold a candle to analog in terms of quality. 35mm film is vastly superior. 70mm blows digital projection out of the fucking water. This is part of the reason I'm indifferent to watching a movie up close on my 29" monitor as opposed to watching from the middle row of a "modern" movie theater. The quality of the picture has dropped pretty sharply to what it used to be. In a lot of cases it's just like a regular DVD blown up to stupid proportions, a blurry mess (and blurry audio too).

Projectionists used to be skilled at what they did. They had to be just to do their jobs, and their care showed. Now they just hire some kid out of high school and he slaps a disc in the drive and fucks off for 2 hours while the picture is all scaled wrong and the audio sounds like it's coming from the theater next door - and they want $15 a ticket. I'll watch it at home. God damn I sound like a grumpy old bastard. But it's true... I'm not angry about it, I'm just left asking "why should I bother to go?". What reason is there if I can't at very least get a better picture?

3D? Hah.

 

[cypher-raige]

It's like the music 'purists' who claim record, with their pin and needle, had the best quality for sound.

It does have the best quality. Digital files are heavily compressed.

These people are sound engineers, not purists and referring to them with pejorative terms like that is an insult to their profession.