Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude streaming movies

Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by TheLoneAdmin on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:54AM (#19301202)

Counterpoint, maybe only films should be eligible for Oscars, as Oscars are for "film makers". Digital cameras would not qualify, right?

Seriously, there was a huge gulf in quality when the best home TV was 19" NTSC 4/3. Nowadays, my picture quality exceeds that of most movie screens (except for imax). I don't see any reason to differentiate.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by gamblor956 on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:43AM (#19302083)

You have an 8k TV at home? Lucky you. If not, then your home TV doesn't even begin to approach the quality of a modern movie theater.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by TheLoneAdmin on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @01:53PM (#19321489)

I said "most movie screens", not a theatre with the best equipment.

My point is that the difference between 2k/4k/8k is noticeable, but not significant. NTSC, at 480i, was a magnitude worse than film.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by detaro on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:01AM (#19302209)

Is that actually that widespread in theaters? I can't find good sources, but most I can find suggest that it's not yet.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by ttsda on Monday March 04, 2019 @03:08PM (#19304837)

When colour film showed up there were separate colour and black and white Oscars.

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