Michael Mann Quotes

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.

The pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp.

When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.

For me the Blu-ray version is kind of the definitive version of the movie.

I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.

I feel a lot of films that are shot digitally, even low-budget independent films, they look super slick now. Because the technology is so good that they look too good.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

What I love about DVD is that the quality is good.

Every digital video player - RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube - all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed.

I've had a VHS collection for many, many years. But I would prefer to watch a movie in the best format possible.

Like most people in 1997, I hadn't ever even seen a DVD, much less watched one.

I think if you're watching 'Dumb and Dumber,' I don't know whether you need to buy the Blu-ray of a comedy or something like that. But if you're watching 'Event Horizon,' 'Death Race,' 'Alien vs. Predator' I mean, I think these movies are definitely enhanced by the Blu-ray experience.

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

I also make movies that can be seen on a small screen, as I shoot on digital video. Hopefully they can be seen small and can live like that.

I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.

My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking.

As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.

I've always been a DVD geek and, before that, a laser disc fanatic, too.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

By investing in diverse asset types from SD video to HD video to 4K video, we can satisfy the video needs of a wide array of users.

The big advancement in our BCM7445 home gateway chip is that it uses the next-generation compression technology called HEVC - High-Efficiency Video Coding.