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The soaps have taken over
No, not General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful, As the World (Stomach) Turns, Dallas, or Dynasty…but the prevalence of the motion smoothing “feature” on all new TVs, the so-called dreaded “soap opera” effect. Instead of getting better, it has become almost a visual pandemic, as far as I can tell! It seems that whenever…
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It’s in 3D! But what if nobody cares?
Back in 2009, James Cameron released the 3D extravaganza Avatar, launching a third resurgence of 3D movies (first wave: 1950s, second wave: 1980s/1990s, third wave 2010s, for more info: 3D film – Wikipedia). This created an avalanche of other films that were released in 3D. This, like any true avalanche, spiralled out of control and…
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A different aspect
In the start of a 3-part blog series dealing with video/film topics, I’ve decided to start off with a fairly basic subject, and that is dealing with film and video aspect ratios, that is the ratios between the width and height of various forms of film and TV. Originally film was in 4:3 (or 1.3:1)…
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