movies

[Freed Roger]

Quick question for the board: renting movies on TV- HD rental is extra-like 1 or 2 dollars. Is it worth it? Not watchn porn.

are you renting thru VUDU?

Already watched Trainwreck in HD from Amazon.. Thankfully not the uncut version-because i dont like seeing sausages HD or Not

[lukethedrifter]

so you're saying you like seeing cut sausages.

[jim]

Quick question for the board: renting movies on TV- HD rental is extra-like 1 or 2 dollars. Is it worth it? Not watchn porn.

Always pay the extra, and it's a source of contention in the house. My wife could care less about HD anything, she swears she can't even see the difference. Me? I can't even enjoy what I'm watching if it's not in HD and I know that option was available to me.

For TV watching thankfully we have the latest Comcast gizmo which just automatically chooses an HD station if one is available, because what would really piss her off would be when she would to to a SD station and I would change it on her and then miss - so change from 2 to 189 (because that's our CBS stations) but forget 189 was 189 and do 190 and then go up and try to find it and .. She didn't like that.

[JoeMcKim]

I wonder how much longer into the future before you no longer have the option of watching something HD or not HD, to the point where everything is just automatically in HD. Sending the HD signals will eventually have to get cheaper to where it's a insignificant difference and less people need to still have the old box style TV's. But they no longer make those TV's so every day that goes by means less and less people have those old style TV's.

[Freed Roger]

I was just wondering if the lower def was actually better for many films. A warmer friendlier look. I.e. Dont see the blemishes on a Scarlett Johannsen. I am guessing it isnt really film much anymore though.

Sports and action HD is a no brainer.

I remember posting on GRB when we first got HD, how I didnt care for it with old classic westerns or the twighlight zone. HD made them look a little less classic. Someone here said I d get used to it this way, and prefer it. That seems to be true

[Maclowery]

Yep. This damn bar's best angled TV for my current spot is old def or whatever. I can't even read the score. Just awful.

[Freed Roger]

Yep. This damn bar's best angled TV for my current spot is old def or whatever. I can't even read the score. Just awful.

The remaining old projector things in bars are the worst. 3 years ago-I noticed the graphics such as scores they use with sports had made old def obsolete.

[Vidor]

Film has pretty much always been HD, has it not?

[jim]

My son has one of those ultra HD TV's and I think that has to be the limit of what the eye can physically differentiate.

I see what freed is saying, for old classics I could see that. Porn too. Takes the edge off of butt pimples.

[lukethedrifter]

It's not just hd. There's that strange quasi 3D setting that new sets seem to default to that makes old movies look soap opera quality.
Check out the screen behind the bar at Katies in Rick Hill. Prime example unless they've recently changed it.


I see it's called motion interpolation aka soap opera effect. Really ungood for old movies.