A friend of mine still dailies a 60" Kuro. The picture is gorgeous!
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you can probably find plasma on local classifieds for under 200 bucks
I do love my 2007 Panasonic plasma, but the only thing it has over my LG OLED is motion resolution. It sure knows how to treat 240p input well, though.
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Yeah
It’s a weird concept because it’s entirely perceptual. Projecters, CRTs, and plasmas flicker enough that the eye reconstructs motion more smoothly than with sample-and-hold displays (LCD, OLED), which hold on each frame for the entire duration until the next. When you do that, the eye can’t grasp onto moving objects as well and they appear blurrier.
This is not the same as ghosting or pixel response; cheap LCDs take a long time to change state, so on something like an old Game Boy you see a trail of images. OLEDs have incredibly fast pixel response so you don’t get any ghosting. But that doesn’t help the illusion of motion at all!
The way to solve this on sample-and-hold displays is to blank the screen for a portion of the frame, just like an older display. This effectively fixes the problem. But this cuts brightness by a proportionate amount, so it was always a tradeoff, and in a lot of circumstances extra brightness (and the expanded contrast it affords) is preferable to clearer motion. New OLEDs have enough brightness that their black-frame-insertion is considered worthwhile on games.
I’ve seen near-future speculation that, since OLED tech can be driven up to 900hz+, micro-black-frame insertion may be possible that incurs a lesser brightness cost.
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the plasma I had kicking around before it died from falling face-first on its remote (the remote survived) would very gladly do 480p at 120hz
I was very sad when I found out the same model we had at work in storage got thrown out
(I was also verbally promised a CRT projector that was also thrown out. also some BVMs got thrown out. I should have been there more often)
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this monitor like a photoshop mockup or some kinda lcd casemod?
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the latter i think
(Source: Dune 2 is not a sure thing – but director Denis Villeneuve is optimistic | GamesRadar+)
I think Lynch was right about my fucking iPhone but Denis, come over, my TV is better than most projectors.
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the average quality of a 1080p DCP is still often competitive with if not better than the 4K hevc you get from streaming services (less so with UHD BR/rips but what, like 5% of people are watching those?) and an environment in which looking at your phone or multitasking is frowned upon obviously has its advantages so on the one hand I get it but definitely a raging-against-the-dying-of-the-light situation
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i have a decent projector and a big wall, fuck you dennis
you can’t make me tolerate the commercial bombardment of today’s cinema-going experience
the enemy has always been money
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The source media, sure, but in addition to distractions from the commercial venue and other members of the audience I’m acutely aware of the various presentational flaws a typical set-and-forget 2K multiplex has. And I’m loathe to go talk to someone about it because I remember someone asking me why I left off the final reel of A Serious Man and bursting out laughing.
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omg
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oh yeah I forgot I literally only go to the theater for fast and the furious and the film festival these days so the crass commercialism is either additive or absent
(probably also going to make an exception for jackass forever)
I love chatting up the IMAX folks when they get a feature, obviously, and Furious 7 in Dbox with force feedback in the chair for every nonsensical gear shift was cool
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I watched the suicide squad at an old drive-in with a folding chair and my giant ass 80s boom box for the audio and it was the best. Very much looking to do the same for dune.
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I’ve found that the only way I can watch movies at home without fucking with my phone is to watch them on my phone. My phone has the highest pixel density, and therefore best, screen out of all of my devices. Watching at night with the phone close to my face simulates the theatre experience. My eyes are dissolving but the imagination is the highest K projector of them all.
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