William Friedkin Quotes

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

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.

It is obvious that the Internet has become such a video-driven entity. With broadband becoming ubiquitous, viewers and advertisers are looking for professional-quality videos.

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

Blu-ray and the technologies emerging around it are the premiere format for reproducing what we do as filmmakers. There's more space on the disc, more bit rate.

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 pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp.

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

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

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.

There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.

That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.

I love to play with the gadgets that come with film.

Video is crucial to the future of media: premium video in that respect.

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

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

If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.

The film industry is moving towards digital technology.

The web offers a creative climate that filmmakers have been craving for.

All of my videos, everything I upload is short and edited.

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

I'm actually very critical of digital cinema.

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.