April 24, 2006
The (very) small screen experience
Posted Apr. 24, ’06, 9:01 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Video
Though I really enjoy having the option to watch video on my 5G iPod, it’s hardly a suitable platform for most of my movie viewing. Lawrence of Arabia is one of my very favorite films—and one of the greatest movies of all time—and I can’t imagine trying to watch it on my iPod; the vistas demand nothing less than an enormous movie theater screen. Even watching it on a big television is a lackluster experience at times.
Boston Globe movie critic Ty Burr decided to give it a shot anyway.
I’m watching the attack on Aqaba sequence from ”Lawrence of Arabia” on my iPod.Thus creating my new favorite film: Lawrence of Antrabia. Sorry. Sorry. I’ll be good, I promise.It looks like an insurrection on an ant farm.
Ty goes on to look at some of the technical and legal issues behind watching movies on your iPod and your computer. He raises a number of interesting points: black-and-white classic movies, for example, are among the best fare for watching on your iPod due to their non-widescreen aspect ratio, and their high contrast nature. Perhaps, he muses, this could start a renaissance: “imagine hipster kids sharing a Bogart in the school cafeteria. It could be the crowning irony of the iPod era: ripping the past right into the future.”
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