Prolost - Your New TV Ruins Movies
TVs are designed to do one thing only: sell. To do so, they must fight for attention on brightly-lit showroom floors. Manufacturers accomplish this in much the same way that transvestite hookers in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district do—by showing you everything they’ve got, turned up to eleven. You want brightness? We’ll scald your retinas. You want sharpness? We’ll draw a black outline around everything for you. Like bright colors? We’ll find them even in Casablanca. Oh, and since you associate “yellowing” with age and decay, we’ll also make the image as blue as a retiree’s bouffant on Miami beach.
and on the feature of Motion smoothing in LCD flatscreens (interpolating extra frames) :
Filmmakers were not content to make movies with video cameras until those cameras could shoot 24p, because video, with its many-frames-per-second, looks like reality, like the evening news, like a live broadcast or a daytime soap opera; whereas 24p film, by showing us less, looks somehow larger than life, like a dream, like a story being told rather than an event being documented.
This is interesting since, well, James Cameron just announced higher framerates as the future of cinematic whatever.
I liked this bit too:
Now I’m going to do that internet-unfriendly thing I try to do every so often, which is make a nuanced point.
