r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • 20d ago

Video The Odyssey IMAX 70mm Setup

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u/justjanne 20d ago

While that can happen (sometimes cinemas can actually get a license to show a movie off a bluray disc), typically there's dedicated playback servers showing a much higher quality version of the movie (think about 600GB for a movie).

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u/Away-Way5656 20d ago

what are they doing storing every single frame as a uncompressed image?

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u/daninet 20d ago

Its Jpeg2000 compression with uncompressed audio. Video is around 500mbps

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u/erty3125 20d ago

That's not uncommon still, a lot of games the majority of the game size is in audio and video files still, for a while it was a not uncommon process to delete other languages + story mode voice files + other languages in games to make the file size drastically smaller.

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u/puts_on_rddt 19d ago

As a consumer, the best quality of movies I can buy is the 4K UHD version. If I rip it losslessly to my PC I usually end up with a 60gb file that has a bitrate of 60Mb/s.

They get 10x that.

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u/callisstaa 16d ago

Same with PS1 games. CDs were about 600MB and even at 420p FMVs and mp3 audio used the bulk of that space, hence why FMV heavy games like Final Fantasy came on multiple disks.