Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by colordrops on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:39AM
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The problem with higher frame rates is the same as higher resolution. It emphasizes even more the poor quality of the content. The low fidelity masks some of this, leaving more to your imagination (which is how impressionism works). If the content were of higher quality then it wouldn't be as much if an issue.
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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by wongarsu on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:08PM
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On the other hand, low frame rates put a ceiling on some measures of quality, just as low resolution does. A fast-paced fight scene or a panning shot over a field of gras in the wind is very limited by what 24fps can show.
Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by adra on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:08PM
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Throw in as much garbage as you like, the human brain is only wired to appreciate a certain degree of information before it all gets washes out as noise. This is why imho the last 20 years in cinema has been a slow skid toward meteocracy.
The race to shove more crap at the screen to the appreciation of a younger and younger demographic to chase other tertiaries like toys, collectables, games etc.. means that the films are almost unwatchable by older people. I guess they're making their money so whatever, but it means that films feel more dead than ever before for myself. Admittedly, this may be more biased by aging out of existing target demos anyways, so shrugs.
Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by Jare on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:23PM
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Gemini Man was a poor movie, but it was really interesting how it tried to use and explore the opportunities offered by high frame rate. I'm 100% in the club of people who can barely look at 24fps pans on the big screen, and wish 48fps and higher became the norm, were explored deeper so they could find solutions for the "soap opera" look - most likely figuring out a new look.
Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by whynotminot on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:06PM
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We need to go back to 480i to increase immersion.
Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by colordrops on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:56PM
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The lofi tv scene is waiting to explode.
Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by spookthesunset on Sunday January 22, 2023 @04:07PM
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What I find funny is looking at older TV shows that were clearly meant to be shown on old analog 4:3 CRT's but shot in film anyway. Now these shows show up in syndication and all that film got scanned as 16:8 HD. Some examples include Seinfeld, Friends, even Wizard of Oz. Many times it feels like you are watching a play instead of an immersive show. All the props look like props instead of something "real"
Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
by gmueckl on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:18AM
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I had similar moments when watching the remastered Star Trek TNG. Some of the sets - the bridge set for one - had been built so that they would just barely hold up when viewed on analog video / SD TV. With the film scans, all the messy shortcuts and crimes are easily visible. The set builders must have had some deep knowledge of what shows up on camera and what doesn't to cut the corners they did.