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You didn't watch the battle episode did you?hph6203 said:
This isn't what you should have taken away from the video. The video basically explains in long form why you and the studios shouldn't care about resolution as much as you should care about contrast, color accuracy etc etc. The cameras that were used for Game of Thrones captured more color and brightness variations than your TV can (probably) reproduce. Upscaling a 2K image to 4K is easy for a computer to do algorithmically relative to accurately assessing what color a blade of grass should be, so studios prioritize a workflow that maximizes wow factor. Color provides more "WOW!" than resolution after you get to 2K.
Same reason why we don't have a 4K Star Wars original trilogy.C@LAg said:
The part that it made me realize is that many of us obsess about the newest in TV features and those of other devices, in resolutions, etc, etc, etc, and a lot of it "doesn't matter" because much of the current and available source media is behind the curve of our present and near-term technologies.
The funny thing was I found that link from something i was reading that was explaining how GoT was mastered in 2K, so we will never be able to have a real 4K version of that show, which disappoints me.
there's likely no reason for that. star wars was filmed with film. there are probably already existing 8K scans of the film masters.OldShadeOfBlue said:Same reason why we don't have a 4K Star Wars original trilogy.C@LAg said:
The part that it made me realize is that many of us obsess about the newest in TV features and those of other devices, in resolutions, etc, etc, etc, and a lot of it "doesn't matter" because much of the current and available source media is behind the curve of our present and near-term technologies.
The funny thing was I found that link from something i was reading that was explaining how GoT was mastered in 2K, so we will never be able to have a real 4K version of that show, which disappoints me.
The original trilogy was shot on film, there's more than 4k resolution in the original masters.OldShadeOfBlue said:Same reason why we don't have a 4K Star Wars original trilogy.C@LAg said:
The part that it made me realize is that many of us obsess about the newest in TV features and those of other devices, in resolutions, etc, etc, etc, and a lot of it "doesn't matter" because much of the current and available source media is behind the curve of our present and near-term technologies.
The funny thing was I found that link from something i was reading that was explaining how GoT was mastered in 2K, so we will never be able to have a real 4K version of that show, which disappoints me.
What your Xbox does is drastically simplified. Extremely long render times will make fully CGI photo-realistic frames, not video game video. I'm guessing the 12 days is talking about multiple parts of a single frame being rendered and then them being composited together.OldShadeOfBlue said:
I just don't understand how it would take 12 days to render one frame of a movie when my Xbox can render 30-60 frames of 4K in a second. I know the difference in video effect isn't comparable, but I don't think what I see pre-rendered in a Transformers movie is 1,036,800 times better than what a game console can render on the fly. I'm sure there's a reason for the difference, but I just don't get how it's as vast as it is.
Oh I definitely agree, it's why I upgraded when I did. 4K was about to become the only option, but the ones under the $800-1K price point just didn't have the features to justify the jump for me. They were kind of '4K in name only' and many of them were a mixed bag with upscaling.schmendeler said:
1080p is definitely fine imo. But any new TV you buy now will be 4K unless it's like 32". Just like you can't find a 720p set really at all anymore.