The cost and time to deal with the extra visual information means the majority of the special effects shots in "After Earth" - comprising about a third of all the shots in the movie - were actually worked on in lower-resolution HD.Īt the screening I attended, I could see details I've never noticed before - the actors' tiny skin imperfections, or Smith's salt-and-pepper whiskers. Budget-strapped digital effects companies are having trouble handling all that data. They use four times the number of pixels as the current HD standard, which results in larger data files. It could also entice more people to buy movie tickets to see for themselves what the super-clear format is like.īut the more detailed images present a host of problems. Sony and other consumer electronics makers are betting that 4K images will become the new standard, prompting consumers to buy fancier TVs just as they did when high definition, or HD, rolled out over the past decade. At a screening for journalists, I got a close-up look at even the pores on Will Smith's face as details were rendered with greater clarity on the big screen.
is taking a deeper dive into ultrahigh-definition video as it comes out Friday with "After Earth," the first of Sony's three movies this year both shot and presented in the emerging 4K digital format.
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