All the hi definition movies I've seen so far look like TV documentaries of the “making of” an absent original. The sense of reality is totally lost, replaced by a televisual accuracy that must have to do with the scanning rate of a TV rather than the frames-per-second approach of traditional film. To have a sense of reality there must be a certain aesthetic sheen in front of the action.
i had the same issue with a new hd tv. found some weird settings that the older tv's i'd had did not have adjustments for. things like: 'Noise Reduction,' 'Color Enhancement,' 'Advanced Adaptive Luma,' and so on. fiddled with those and was able to tone the hd down a bit. we're now back to basking in the blissful escapism of "realistic" video entertainments.
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