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In Reply to: immersion in a movie- does this happen with DVD? posted by tunenut on March 21, 2005 at 17:25:14:
My wife can get fully absorbed into Beethoven music played on a small portable radio - she gets to the soul of it (and vice versa), and the sound quality doesn't stand in the way.Ditto for being absorbed in the film. It has nothing to do with image quality, or screen size, but everything with the film's impact.
I had watched the Bicycle Thief on a 6" B&W screen and gotten goose bumps, and I had seen plenty of dreck in its full glory on 100" HDTV projector that made me want to go out and rake some leaves.
Like in audio, equipment lovers want good quality of reproduction, but who care about the quality of the work care little.
Ask not the screen size... ask what you are watching.
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I agree with this, up to a point. Audio-wise, it doesn't take much, ie, a decent table radio will allow me to be immersed.WHen it comes to video, I've noticed a little problem with me -- TVs make me painfully aware of their presence, 1st is that insane flyback whistle (I can hear a tv a long ways out), then there's the scanlines, then there's the rather tiny image. All of this makes it much more difficult to get absorbed into the material being shown. I used to love the cinemas because of their super-sized, clear image. Makes it much easier to get lost. Now I can get the same effect at home.
The strangest thing is, give me a book, be it text (novel, whatever) or a good comic book (prefferably manga ;o) and I get lost. Quickly and deeply. The room goes away, the fan goes away, the chirping birds go away, everything goes away.
But TVs don"t let me do that. O.o
I also think that TV can be less than perfect with some material that is designed to be visually impactful. Especially silent or near silent scenes where the director intended for the scene alone to do its job. For me to sit back comfortably, say 12' from the screen, I like at least a 27" screen. A larger screen of 32" to 42" is even better for DVDs that are presented in "Widescreen" format. Too much of the screen size is lost due to that compression, perhaps as much as 25% on 4:3 sets and 12% on 16:9 sets. A 16:9 set that is at least 32" will make those films like the classic "Lawrence of Arabia" really enjoyable. Something that is meant to be visually stunning by its scope and expanse needs to be about the size of your head from your perspective or a bit wider than you from your viewing distance to really give you the impression that the space is larger than your actual environment. If not, and you can focus on the screen like a small object in the room, then it is easier to lose concentration and see just that.
-Bill
I agree with Victor on this one. The first time I saw "Citizen Kane" I was watching on a 19" tv (it also was only a black and white set, but that really didn't matter in this instance). The first time I was in New York and staying at the 47th St. Y, I watched "Hiroshima, mon amour" late one night on a tiny 9" set. I was absolutely mesmerized both times.It is the work that matters. Beautiful DVD on a widescreen TV with surround sound enveloping you? Nice, but I've watched "The Wild Bunch" edited for TV and with commercial breaks every 6 minutes on my parents' old TV set. I didn't care...I was watching "The Wild Bunch", and despite TNT or TBS's best efforts, I could still get immersed in it!
It's better to watch a great movie using a chewed-up print projected on a sheet than to see 99% of last year's Hollywood output in a HPS-4000 theatre (although I wish we had one of those around here!).
I watched "The Shining" on a 19" TV in a small, lighted room with some other folks...and got scared! My 1st viewing...might a
had a heart attack if I'd seen it in darkness via theater screen. ~AH
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