Redefinition

LOOK, I SEE why Peter Jackson did it. Why he rereleased, in December of last year, his Lord of the Rings trilogy, along with The Nasty Hobbitses—as I like to call them, channeling Gollum—in so-called “4K Ultra HD” (a redundancy). It’s a very 21st-century-filmmaker thing to do, this remastering business. Enrich the colors, sharpen the images, and your films hold up down through the ages. It’s practically a moral obligation, a question of clarity, of being clear, and if you can clarify Legolas by pumping an extra 10 million pixels into his perfect Elven pores, which comes out to something like 100 billion photons, all twinkling immortally through the cosmic sweep of spacetime, why then, shouldn’t you?
--- Jason Kehe, Wired
Definition