[78-L] Wizard of Oz in hidef

[Cary Ginell]

Well, they have to justify their six-figure salaries, don't they? So when they are presented with anything "old," naturally, they have to "fix it" (with visions of Academy Awards swimming in their heads). Then you'll see them on the Discovery Channel, explaining how their miraculous work restored a piece of history, giving them a good, nice, warm glow all over.

 

I think I'm becoming Steve Barr...

 

Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:26:17 -0500
> From: kenreg at tds.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Wizard of Oz in hidef
> 
> Michael Biel wrote:
> > But wouldn't a celluloid projection be higher def than an electronic
> > projection?
> >
> > 
> 
> Yes. But too many people think that the latest technology is 
> automatically better. There are those who think that a stereo audio 
> recording automatically has higher fidelity than a mono recording. Or 
> if you transfer a 78 to a CD then its automatically got better sound. 
> (I once had a discussion with someone who insisted that copying an old 
> record to CD makes it sound better because ITS DIGITAL!!!) Or if you 
> wipe out the high end to remove hiss then it sounds better.
> 
> Today's audiences are so conditioned to the look of video that they 
> think its an improvement over film. Some of those video "restorations" 
> are done by fools who destroy the original look of the film. They think 
> that film grain is a bad thing so they wipe it out as much as possible 
> and they fiddle with the sound track to get rid of hiss and leave a 
> muddy mess. I just watched "Hallelujah I'm a Bum" on DVD. The sound 
> track was awful - some kind of odd-ball noise reduction was used and it 
> cut off the higher end on consonants so that it was difficult to catch 
> some of the dialog. But I'm sure the audio folks patted themselves on 
> the back for "improving" that old sound track.
> 
> Harrumph!
> 
> -- Ken
> 
> 
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