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What my Nikon D850 does looks like magic.Any sufficiently advanced unknown science looks like magic.
What my Nikon D850 does looks like magic.Any sufficiently advanced unknown science looks like magic.
It's an HBO Max 4K @ 59.94Hz stream, which always looks solid here, so bandwidth isn't an issue. The "sound" of this distortion reminds me of IM, which I always find particularly disturbing. It's like sandpaper. A few isolated scenes in the movie have dialog that sounds cleaner, and most of the SFX tracks sound cleaner, (admittedly it's impossible to know or judge what SFX "should" sound like,) leading me to suspect that someone may have added distortion to the dialog tracks for effect, and maybe WAY over did it for my taste. The fact that tons of viewers have complained about indistinct dialog in this production makes me wonder whether this distortion is what's causing that issue. It's my understanding that this director has a history of making movies with intentionally indistinct dialog sound. When I read that, my assumption is that the dialog is simply made muddy with EQ and buried in the mix at a too-low level, but that's not so much the case here. It's just very distorted.Do you know the bandwidth you use when watching HBO Max? I hear distortion when the streaming service throttles the stream. The distortion is similar to old 128Kbps or lower MP3 recordings. There is a lot of data required for a film like Dune, which is chock full of audio and dynamic video.
I've watched the HBO version and had no issues either, nor did I hear any 128 kbit MP3 "compression artifacts"...All this talk about the dialogue mix leaves me scratching my head. I have the BluRay version and no issues that I can recall, and we watched it a few times.
That's Clarke. The quote I'm thinking of was from someone more obscure and I'm struggling to find itAny sufficiently advanced unknown science looks like magic.
It's simple: if they try to explain it, it's sci-fi. If they don't bother, it's fantasy.The line between sci fi and and fantasy is thin. Paul's powers are supposedly produced by a selective breeding program and the mysterious substance spice mélange. That's almost magic.
Midi-chlorians, where can I get some? Is it like CBD?It's simple: if they try to explain it, it's sci-fi. If they don't bother, it's fantasy.
"The Force" in Star Wars is similar. It's explained via midi-chlorians, microscopic organisms living in the cells of force carriers. Although the Sequal Trilogy seemingly wholly ignores the concept and favors more a fantasy approach, once again showing that the people running the show do not know how to make good sci-fi.
first 3 star wars movies are fantasy.It's simple: if they try to explain it, it's sci-fi. If they don't bother, it's fantasy.
"The Force" in Star Wars is similar. It's explained via midi-chlorians, microscopic organisms living in the cells of force carriers. Although the Sequal Trilogy seemingly wholly ignores the concept and favors more a fantasy approach, once again showing that the people running the show do not know how to make good sci-fi.
I saw an episode of star trek where the ships's sensors couldn't read the writing on a ship half buried in an asteroid (i think it was) the alien second in command solved this by looking at the sensor screen and zooming in with his magical alien eyesIt's simple: if they try to explain it, it's sci-fi. If they don't bother, it's fantasy.
"The Force" in Star Wars is similar. It's explained via midi-chlorians, microscopic organisms living in the cells of force carriers. Although the Sequal Trilogy seemingly wholly ignores the concept and favors more a fantasy approach, once again showing that the people running the show do not know how to make good sci-fi.
I didn't hear any compression artifacts, either.I've watched the HBO version and had no issues either, nor did I hear any 128 kbit MP3 "compression artifacts"...
That was in the book, "Voice" - this was just their conceptualization of that for the silver screen. At least in this one the Baron is scary as hell, not the wacky buffoon of the previous, which Sting in a loincloth did not enhance (well except for those who swing that way ha ha)Plus all the added stuff like the voice weapon.
I've always assumed it was George Lucas's typically puerile, half-assed attempt to reference the word 'mitochondrion' (plural 'mitochondria') the actual microscopic power plants of cells.Midi-chlorians, where can I get some? Is it like CBD?
I think at 10x more compression many will hear the difference.
Technology Dolby Audio Dolby TrueHD | Dolby Developer
Dolby TrueHD, also known as MLP, is a lossless audio codec used widely on HD and UHD Blu-ray Discs. Dolby TrueHD supports up to 24-bit audio and sampling rates from 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz.developer.dolby.com
They’re taking about the OTHER voice weapon that was added in the lynch movie, not Voice.That was in the book, "Voice" - this was just their conceptualization of that for the silver screen. At least in this one the Baron is scary as hell, not the wacky buffoon of the previous, which Sting in a loincloth did not enhance (well except for those who swing that way ha ha)
I wasn’t commenting on the degree of audibility. How much is subjective, just that 10x compression difference will always be audible.Again, simple numerical differences don't necessarily predict degree of audible difference. Lossy audio compression is based on psychoacoustic models.
So if there was zero compression, 10 times zero would be zero, it would not be audible...I wasn’t commenting on the degree of audibility. How much is subjective, just that 10x compression difference will always be audible.
That’s the realm of Dolby Digital. DTS gained market share because people heard the difference in sound quality.(Personally below like 160k stuff can start to sound...I don't know how to describe it. Thin or hollow or something.
Dolby Digital compresses 5.1 digital audio down to a bit-rate of 640 kbits/s (kilobits per second) for Blu-ray discs. For DVD discs, it supports a slightly lower bit-rate: up to 448 kbits/s. DTS, on the other hand, is less compressed and supports higher bit-rates of up to 1.5Mb/s (megabits per second).