Taxi Driver director Martin Scorsese has been speaking about the virtues of Blu-ray this week, saying the hi-def format "will extend the life of movies".
Speaking via video-link at Blu-con 2.0, a US symposium celebrating all things home entertainment, the director was positively glowing about the format explaining: "It's like experiencing the film for the first time again" and "it's not just the details of the eyes or such; it creates a completely different experience."
Film quality
Scorsese even compared HD to 35mm, noting that it brings a "film-grain quality" to movies and "allows the film to be seen as closely as possible to how it was intended to be."
When asked what his favourite Blu-ray movie was, Scorsese revealed it was The Searchers and that there's "something about the beauty of the landscape and the nature of the faces – you put it on just to check something out, and you can't take it off."
It seems that his Blu-ray seal of approval has got other director's interested (finally) in using the format to rekindle old movies as well as the latest films, with Sony's Senior VP of Restoration and Mastering Grover Crisp telling audiences at the conference that the director has now piqued the interest of directors like Michael Mann and Christopher Nolan into readying their back catalogue for Blu-ray release.
Via Blu-ray.com and Hollywood Reporter
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agentcool
November 5th
2. "Blu-Ray will be succeeded within 5 years and broadband will be commonplace allowing streaming via Apple TV, etc. "
I highly doubt that. Blu-ray data transfer rates peak at over 40Mbps which is several times more than any UK broadband connection can handle. It might be feasible to stream HD content at Blu-ray quality in South Korea but it won't be in this country for at least 15-20 years.
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linuxglobe
November 5th
1. Blu-Ray will be succeeded within 5 years and broadband will be commonplace allowing streaming via Apple TV, etc. Going to the movie theater will be 3D and staying home for non 3D films will be commonplace. Cinema and Home Cinema will be vastly different in years to come!!!
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