Star Wars on Sky HD
Over the last three weekends Sky and Sky HD have shown the 'prequel' Star Wars episodes culminating with the full HD of Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith last weekend.
These have been superb presentations especially Part III which was easily the best film and as it was shot on a Sony f950 in 24p looked fantastic. What was especially interesting was the blend of CGI and live action. In other films like Spiderman 2 you can certainly 'see' the join but with SW3 it was digital cinematography at its very best with a 'no apology' 2 1/2 hours of superb advert-free high definition entertainment.
Whether or not Sky ramped up the data rate for the films is unknown but there seemed to be no sign of any compression artifacts which are so prevalent on other programming.
SW3 is the one film I want to keep in HD but as yet Sky have not confirmed that any recording from the Sky+ hard drive in HD is possible to an HD DVD or Blu Ray recordable drive. At the moment all you get is a blanket down rez through the RF output.
These have been superb presentations especially Part III which was easily the best film and as it was shot on a Sony f950 in 24p looked fantastic. What was especially interesting was the blend of CGI and live action. In other films like Spiderman 2 you can certainly 'see' the join but with SW3 it was digital cinematography at its very best with a 'no apology' 2 1/2 hours of superb advert-free high definition entertainment.
Whether or not Sky ramped up the data rate for the films is unknown but there seemed to be no sign of any compression artifacts which are so prevalent on other programming.
SW3 is the one film I want to keep in HD but as yet Sky have not confirmed that any recording from the Sky+ hard drive in HD is possible to an HD DVD or Blu Ray recordable drive. At the moment all you get is a blanket down rez through the RF output.
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