Snake oil??

@mhnyc,

"While I'm a bit of an audiophile, I work in film."


It's good to hear that some people in the industry still care about sound. 


"but the question of fidelity is about the preservation of the intentions of the filmmakers who made it."

That's also good to hear. Whilst mastering engineers like Steve Hoffman claim they are trying to do the same thing with historic audio recordings, virtually everything digitally remastered nowadays seems to have had excessive amounts of compression applied.

On metal, rock, and punk albums, this can have the effect of making them virtually unlistenable. Yet it continues. 

I also remember there was a bit of a controversy back when Shane (1953 George Stevens) was first transferred to Blu-ray and Warners announced they were going to alter the aspect ratio from the original 1.37 to 1.66. Incredible.

Since genuine improvements seem so hard to attain (due to marketing?), perhaps it's fair to say that snake oil can come in many different guises?

https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2013/03/shane-aspect-ratio-conflict/

^^^ "Shane" was a great movie. At the time of its release, I was in Junior High School and worked part-time as an usher at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles. I saw the film so many times that I knew all of the lines by heart. I still remember a lot of them even to this day.

Frank

I will buy a case very soon.(HO HO)

Oh no you won't ebm, you hate everything.

Overall, it sounds like it was written by someone who dropped out of high school or never finished College.


Do you really equate intelligence to only high school or college?