Re: [photo-3d] Goodbye film, Hello Pixels...

[Rory Hinnen <Rory.Hinnen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Harp wrote:
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> I'll be interested to hear what you think.  I saw a digital projection
> of Disney's "Mission to Mars" (unfortunately) in Toronto.  I was
> sitting about 15 rows back, and I sure did see the "pixel
> projection".  In fact I saw lots of little pixels, kind of like
> sitting too close to a Sony Trinitron.  To say the least I was 

There are two projection technologies out there right now. I don't know
which one you saw.

One comes from Texas Instruments, the Digital Light Pump. Personally, I
like this technology since it seems to be able to offer a contrast range
closer to that of film. At present, the chips are being made at
something about 2k pixels across (I think - don't quote me). That number
should be getting higher as time goes by.

The other technology AT THIS MOMENT comes from Hughes/JVC, and it's more
a complete package for film distribution. I think AT THIS MOMENT,
they're using a video projector on steroids. The tubes are being pumped
up and the presentation I saw was very bright (I walked out with a
headache). There was a lot of jitter (from compression & sharpening) and
pixelization (image resolution). I think the presentation for this is
essentially a 1k pixel image with sharpening.

Hughes/JVC are more agressive in thier marketing, and they might be in
more places. I think I heard they're going to end up going with the TI
Light Pumps in the long run.

(How's that for a lot of conjecture).

.r.