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I believe they built models for just about all the ships, but that the actual things we see onscreen are CGI. Of course, if you went to the right theater, everything in the film was CGI, of a sort.
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They say the cinemas with Digital projectors are better, because the CGI looks much more realistic and intricate, the old film-projector makes it look daubed-out and plastic. BTW, none of the Clone troopers were real, every last one was CGI. They sure had me fooled at the "rush-the-dustcloud-while-firing" and when that trooper checked to see if Amidala was ok from the fall.
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Most reports I hear say that, while promising, digital projection tends to look washed out and decidedly uncrisp.
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Especially the Ep-II end-battle on Geonosis was digitally more decipherable when taken in as a whole, one could see more individual objects and soldiers without it all looking like a big mess. I read it on the Swedish official Star Wars page, some test-audience had been shown both versions.
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That would interest me. I have only seen it at a normal theater and it looked great. Very crisp images, very good color saturation, hardly any defects or dropouts. All in all grade A++.
I would love to see it at a theater with a digital projector, but I don't know of any around here. Anyone else from Germany who would know any cinemas with that kind of equipment?
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What always disapoints me is the sound. Not so much once the film is going (because, obviously, you have to love those seismic charges that Jango used), but at the beginning. The THX logo sounds great, and then when the music kicks in, it always feels a bit...flat, like Williams is only using half an orchestra.
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So far I've only seen Ep2 via DLP. It was pretty impressive how crisp the detail was and the lack of dirt was incredible. I was a touch disappointed at the resolution surprisingly. I guess it's to be expected, but in high contrast scenes you became very aware of the pixelation and that round shapes were not, in fact, round. I think HD will be fantastic for home use but leaves something to be desired for movie theatres. You figure the image is being blown up onto an 80 foot screen *does the math* and suddenly each pixel is 2 inches across. If anything, I do think the technology will help the fanboys count ships.
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I can only comment that Phantom Menace is the one DVD I own that looks really good on my computer monitor. In fact, the pod race sequence looks better on my monitor than on my tv...
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Isn't that always the case? PC monitors have a far better resolution, refresh rate, etc. than TV sets, don't they?
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Yes, but that's not always a good thing. The lower quality of TV sets means that they essentially come with built in anti-aliasing. The thing that Graphic Card manufacterers are now trying to put into their graphics cards without slowing everything down.
The small size on monitors compared to TVs also lets things down.
Also, your TV quality will improve massively if you use a fully wired SCART cable. Or if you switch to PAL. Or both.
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Like I do when I use my home-cinema. And I don't even have to switch. PAL is our standard in this deck of the woods.
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Anti-Aliasing is not hard to switch off if you know the "Properties\Settings" window. At least not with Creative's cards. I have a Creative GeForce4 Ti-4600, I can choose between AA Off, 2x AA, Quincunx AA, 4x AA, 6x AA.
Although, when I download Media Player or Quicktime movies, AntiAliasing is my friend, since even bigres-movies look nicer with it on, like the new Two Towers movie, or Star Wars.
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quote:Originally posted by Nim Pim Pim: Anti-Aliasing is not hard to switch off if you know the "Properties\Settings" window. At least not with Creative's cards. I have a Creative GeForce4 Ti-4600, I can choose between AA Off, 2x AA, Quincunx AA, 4x AA, 6x AA.
Er, did I say it was?
(And that would be with NVidia's cards, rather than with "Creative'", who did pretty much diddly squat other than follow the blueprints they werre given)
(Oh, and you have an absurdly good graphics card. I hate you.)
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