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me explaining to my future wife why I travelled almost 1000 miles to see INTERSTELLAR in 70mm IMAX.

@anishmoonka @firstshowing What about Sony Pictures Core purestream?

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them. You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from. One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream. Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers. Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid. The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

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@vanshika_1808 Coconut Lagoon?

Absolutely beaut trip , met some amazing people, never knew i could be an extrovert too

@flanthippe These are the kind of subtle subconscious things Nolan is very vigilant about. If you notice, Nolan has a knack for giving subtle change in the looks of a character/ characters to differentiate them.

This was my contribution to OBAA discourse

Might be a top 20 tweet ever

They expect none of us in the horse brother.

@CabanaDrives2 @A24 Not in India either.

Him, with the glasses. MARTY SUPREME in theaters everywhere tomorrow!

@ShyamkrishnanB Did they play Odyssey Prologue at LP and Wadala IMAX?

Round 3 of #AvatarFireAndAsh 🔥 and this time the venue is #IMAX Commercial Laser screen, Phoenix Palladium, Mumbai. This is my second time at this venue. 1st time was for #AvatarTheWayOfWater. Just like the 1st time I had a great experience here this time too. After #DolbyCinema , this is the next best in terms of Visual clarity, color reproduction, and 3D. Even the 12 channel audio added value and gave similar experience to Dolby Atmos at the DC venue. Definitely superior in clarity than that of the IMAX Wadala. Size wise this is smaller than Wadala IMAX , but it's not an issue at all because of its great CoLa projectors. This PVR ICON venue screams of its cinema love theme all across in its design aesthetics. #Avatar3 #Avatar @JimCameron @PicturesPVR @_PVRCinemas @officialavatar @IMAX #Mumbai

Had a transcendental experience watching this in a theatre filled up with 1200+ people. Reminisced about the orkut film community memories. Imagined how the audience must have felt when this film played for the first time on its release. While howard hawks said a good movie has three great scenes, and no bad ones. This movie has one great scene after another and none of them bad. And that makes it timeless! Kind of felt lucky to be part of my orkut film community in early days to discover such gems in our torrent/imdb/ orkut days. @FHF_Official

@CabanaDrives2 imdb.com/title/tt162278… Not able to find this italian film with Thom Yorke's score with English subtitles.. would you please take this request?

@TheAppleDesign Skill issue

Apple makes icons you can spot in a heartbeat. Google makes icons that are colour coded puzzles.

film twitter:

@preethamdnl I really hope that by the time #Varanasi releases or even before, we’ll at least have a 1.43 IMAX screen in India and an IMAX in my land Hyderabad. 🤗🤗

BRADY CORBET is teasing his next film will be just as long as THE BRUTALIST, which was 3 hours 35 minutes (including intermission). •Shoots early 2026 •‘70s-set horror-western •NC-17 rated •Story spans 150 years tinyurl.com/mwch2wsf

me & my letterboxd top 4

@SilentDawnLB Congratulations brother! Wishing you two a happy married life!

Been married for over two weeks now. Hot take? It's been an absolute joy. Still basking in the glow of the day. ❤️

@grocerystorecat @isamessss Is this still available?