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post #91 of 102
2/26/13 at 12:19pm
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Originally Posted by John Schuermann View Post

If you think about it, essentially all movies have subtitles of some kind, as most movies are released with French and Spanish subtitles at a minimum. Otherwise you limit your release to US only. With Folded Space, the intent is to offer greater flexibility for compatibility with the greatest variety of systems, rather than the other way around.

The other issue is that some of the most popular series, such as the STAR WARS, STAR TREK, and James Bond series, all have rather extensive subtitles.

Ok, that makes sense. I was thinking like a selfish American, lol, as I would never use Spanish or French subtitles. That would pretty much be a deal breaker for me to watch a movie if I had to read the whole thing in subtitles, lol. Well, as soon as you guys get these things out I will be building my future library with them and possibly even rebuilding my current library.

-Sean
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post #92 of 102
2/26/13 at 7:13pm
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The other issue is that some of the most popular series, such as the STAR WARS, STAR TREK, and James Bond series, all have rather extensive subtitles.

The BD releases of these films all seem to have STs in the active image.
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post #93 of 102
2/27/13 at 8:17am
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Originally Posted by 230-SEAN View Post

That would pretty much be a deal breaker for me to watch a movie if I had to read the whole thing in subtitles, lol.

You're missing out on some of the greatest movies ever made.
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post #94 of 102
2/27/13 at 8:33pm
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You're missing out on some of the greatest movies ever made.
What's your top 3 Josh?
Cheers, Scott
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post #95 of 102
2/27/13 at 11:04pm
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You're missing out on some of the greatest movies ever made.

Yeah, even though most foreign film on DVD/BD have the option to select English soundtracks and turn the STs off, there are some films like RUN LOLA RUN (not scope unfortunately) that should be watched with STs on and the original soundtrack.
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post #96 of 102
2/28/13 at 8:23am
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What's your top 3 Josh?
Cheers, Scott

Ever, or currently available on Blu-ray?

I don't like to rank things, but about half of the titles released by the Criterion Collection would be good candidates. Fellini's '8 1/2' is a particular favorite of mine.

Kind of getting off topic here, though.
Edited by Josh Z - 3/1/13 at 7:35am
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post #97 of 102
2/28/13 at 8:28am
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I meant current on Blu-Ray. I've become a HD snob I guess. No need to rank, just looking for some pointers for some favorites. I've never cared for ST either, but I'm open minded if oyu have some specifics you think are worthy of consideration for a no-ST guy smile.gif
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post #98 of 102
3/1/13 at 7:36am
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I meant current on Blu-Ray. I've become a HD snob I guess. No need to rank, just looking for some pointers for some favorites. I've never cared for ST either, but I'm open minded if oyu have some specifics you think are worthy of consideration for a no-ST guy smile.gif

Hard to say without knowing your taste in movies.
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post #99 of 102
4/23/13 at 2:40pm
Just when I was getting really interested in this Folded Space thing our Expert has gone AWOL .

I wonder what's going on behind closed doors ?cool.gif

Scott...............rolleyes.gif
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post #100 of 102
4/23/13 at 2:45pm
Still under consideration from several major studios. The issue right now is that 4K is the current "bright shiny ball" and therefore where most of the attention is focused...
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post #101 of 102
4/24/13 at 7:31am
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Still under consideration from several major studios. The issue right now is that 4K is the current "bright shiny ball" and therefore where most of the attention is focused...

While it may not use the technique(s) y'all have come up with for encoding, it would probably be prudent to discuss an anamorphic mode for any 4K Blu-ray format upgrade. Meaning, while they have the spec open and it would require new(er) hardware and firmware to support at all, adding 2.35 native support (ala 16x9 mode from DVD) might not be such a big deal... Adding anything later, of course, is much more difficult.

Would love to see a solution regardless of the implementation!

Jeff
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post #102 of 102
4/26/13 at 6:33am
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Originally Posted by John Schuermann View Post

Still under consideration from several major studios. The issue right now is that 4K is the current "bright shiny ball" and therefore where most of the attention is focused...

The problem I see is that 4K cameras like RED can actually capture 5K and 4K should not limit the width for Scope or we will have the same BS with letter-boxing we currenty have with BD now. It should be used to set the standard for the height ONLY of 2160 (2x 1080).

5K = 5120 x 2880

2K = 2048 x 1080
4K = 4096 x 2160 = 1.89:1
5K = 5120 x 2160 = 2.37:1
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