Rex wrote:
I don't even have a DVD player anymore. 🙂
Me neither. I have a bluray player instead.
Admittedly I use it mostly to stream downloaded movies to my tv (because the upscaling is flipping excellent), but I still buy a fair share of Criterion releases and such. It's not a nostalgic thing; it's just puristic. One thing I can't get behind in the digital era is how analogously captured footage gets ruined by maniacs who try do "degrain" the movies to get a cleaner look on flat screens. I just can't support that type of uncivilised behaviour.
The point of remastering stuff in high definition is to get as much detail out of the picture as possible. Film has grainy properties, hence you're going to see grain. It's not lack of detail or unwanted noise; grain is detail. Why bother transferring anything to a HD format if you're just going to ruin the detail anyway with those horrible filter effects? People harbour this misconception that grain is artefacts that are not supposed to be there. In wanting a clearer picture they purposefully make the picture less clear by coating it with soft filters to remove the grain. I don't get that.
