I didn't know Kiwis had Macs... :HAHAHHAHAHHA We got an Australian iTunes Store... na na na na na na
(Australia-NewZealand is like a USA-Canada thing. Except the Kiwis can kick our asses in Rugby... *Some* of the time )
..I'm a transplant from the UK - dragged my cube over 5+ years ago - & no we can't play Rugby anymore it's just a town in England these days. Enough about the Aussie iTS, tragic they could annex a Kiwi store to it! I'm still using the UK one - but neither of us have TV Shows/Movies yet!
To keep the dead thread alive - the iTS video quality may not be up to DVD quality but certainly compares with SKY digital satellite and I reckon the home/portable TV Show service is it's killer app. Our broadband's just becone uncapped so roll on 1080 or even 720p!
....To keep the dead thread alive - the iTS video quality may not be up to DVD quality but certainly compares with SKY digital satellite and I reckon the home/portable TV Show service is it's killer app. Our broadband's just become uncapped so roll on 1080 or even 720p!.....McD
Okay no more Kiwi jokes then since you are from the UK. So... yeah my brother in London is considering SKY digital [satellite, I think] HDTV which is either 720p or 1080i -- but a 720p iTunes Store file would be superior to recording a SKY HDTV 720p broadcast. Because you have the iTunes Store file "mastered" for computer playback and HD TVscreens, whereas the satellite broadcast is geared very much towards HD TVscreens.
1080p will be nice. But digital HDTV cameras like those used in the TV studios are too "sharp" for me. Give me super-35mm, 35mm or anamorphic-35mm originated shows/ movies mastered digitally. Aesthetic reasons..... But I am a dying breed. I would if I was involved in the "scene" go out and shoot on 35mm still camera SLRs instead of digital SLRs.
That said, a new/ the new breed of film-HDTV-cameras that are 2k res or something like that have very good progressive capture images and film-quality colour and contrast recording and playback.
Although when seen in theatres, like Michael Mann's "Collateral" and "Miami Vice", it's freakin' so grainy and video-like on night scenes. Though it allows a lot of night filming without a ton of artificial lighting.
These new digital-film cameras will put an end to the age old joke --- when watching a night-scene movie, always lookout for the "far-away fairly-bright (brighter than moonlight) white-blue light slanting in from the side" - one would ask "where the hell is that light coming from?" --- and the answer would be "the same place as the film music"....
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I didn't know Kiwis had Macs...
(Australia-NewZealand is like a USA-Canada thing. Except the Kiwis can kick our asses in Rugby... *Some* of the time
..I'm a transplant from the UK - dragged my cube over 5+ years ago - & no we can't play Rugby anymore it's just a town in England these days. Enough about the Aussie iTS, tragic they could annex a Kiwi store to it! I'm still using the UK one - but neither of us have TV Shows/Movies yet!
To keep the dead thread alive - the iTS video quality may not be up to DVD quality but certainly compares with SKY digital satellite and I reckon the home/portable TV Show service is it's killer app. Our broadband's just becone uncapped so roll on 1080 or even 720p!
McD
....To keep the dead thread alive - the iTS video quality may not be up to DVD quality but certainly compares with SKY digital satellite and I reckon the home/portable TV Show service is it's killer app. Our broadband's just become uncapped so roll on 1080 or even 720p!.....McD
Okay no more Kiwi jokes then since you are from the UK. So... yeah my brother in London is considering SKY digital [satellite, I think] HDTV which is either 720p or 1080i -- but a 720p iTunes Store file would be superior to recording a SKY HDTV 720p broadcast. Because you have the iTunes Store file "mastered" for computer playback and HD TVscreens, whereas the satellite broadcast is geared very much towards HD TVscreens.
1080p will be nice. But digital HDTV cameras like those used in the TV studios are too "sharp" for me. Give me super-35mm, 35mm or anamorphic-35mm originated shows/ movies mastered digitally. Aesthetic reasons..... But I am a dying breed. I would if I was involved in the "scene" go out and shoot on 35mm still camera SLRs instead of digital SLRs.
That said, a new/ the new breed of film-HDTV-cameras that are 2k res or something like that have very good progressive capture images and film-quality colour and contrast recording and playback.
Although when seen in theatres, like Michael Mann's "Collateral" and "Miami Vice", it's freakin' so grainy and video-like on night scenes. Though it allows a lot of night filming without a ton of artificial lighting.
These new digital-film cameras will put an end to the age old joke --- when watching a night-scene movie, always lookout for the "far-away fairly-bright (brighter than moonlight) white-blue light slanting in from the side" - one would ask "where the hell is that light coming from?" --- and the answer would be "the same place as the film music"....