Klaus wrote:
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.
It's pretty straightforward, those kinds of gear nerds are yokels who haven't really thought about the ontology of film.
They think of themselves as "opening a window onto reality" when they turn their screen on and press play, that it's possible to work around mediation altogether, and that everything should be done to serve the goal of simulating that experience (no matter how invalid it is).
