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It just occurred to me; Some fans WERE watching on phones/laptops
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:17 pm
by mtwentz
Holy crap, after something The Gazebo posted it
occurred to me: the medium IS the message.
People were actually watching on laptops or smartphones.
I, on the other hand, was watching on big screen TV or big screen desktop with headphones.
Did the way we view TPTR color our perception?
Re: It just occurred to me; Some fans WERE watching on phones/laptops
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 8:40 pm
by NormoftheAndes
I would imagine the amount of viewers who had the set-up required to watch The Return on a big tv with great, loud sound were not in the majority. Like yourself I enjoyed the season on a decent sized tv but importantly, on good headphones. When I re-watched on the blu-ray, the picture and sound also seemed better and I really enjoyed it. The soundwork on The Return is excellent.
Re: It just occurred to me; Some fans WERE watching on phones/laptops
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:04 am
by Stavrogyn
I find the idea of watching anything on a phone absolutely inadequate, and I cannot understand why some people would practice that. However, watching on a laptop is, at least to me, a completely different thing. When I was younger, for years I didn't have my own private TV (I had one in my household, but not one of my own), so I watched everything on my laptop, with headphones. The first time I watched the original
Twin Peaks, it was this way, and it didn't stop it from having a huge impact on me. If I hold my laptop close to me and use headphones, I actually achieve better immersion than by watching on a TV.
I have spent a big part of this summer in a summer house to which I didn't take my own private TV, so I watched things on my laptop again, and those were some of the best film experiences this year. Lars von Trier, Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg, and, yes, even David Lynch (
Inland Empire and
Wild at Heart rewatches), I watched them all this summer on my laptop, and it was absolutely great.
I'm actually planning to watch
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai) or
Melancholia (Lars von Trier) this evening, and even though I could use the TV I have here, I will leave it to my girlfriend, and watch the film on my laptop instead
Re: It just occurred to me; Some fans WERE watching on phones/laptops
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:44 am
by Henrys Hair
I watched on a decent-sized tv (bigger and better quality than the one I first watched the original series on), although the internet signal would occasionally result in a suddenly lo-fi picture. The first time this happened was right when Mr C makes his prison phone call and I assumed it was a special effect. When it continued through the credits, I thought Mr C's call had far-reaching consequences and may even have altered the fabric of the Peaks-verse. I was actually a bit disappointed on the rewatch to find this was just a result of a bad internet signal.
Re: It just occurred to me; Some fans WERE watching on phones/laptops
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:11 am
by Histeria
Stavrogyn wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:04 am
I find the idea of watching anything on a phone absolutely inadequate, and I cannot understand why some people would practice that. However, watching on a laptop is, at least to me, a completely different thing. When I was younger, for years I didn't have my own private TV (I had one in my household, but not one of my own), so I watched everything on my laptop, with headphones. The first time I watched the original
Twin Peaks, it was this way, and it didn't stop it from having a huge impact on me. If I hold my laptop close to me and use headphones, I actually achieve better immersion than by watching on a TV.
I have spent a big part of this summer in a summer house to which I didn't take my own private TV, so I watched things on my laptop again, and those were some of the best film experiences this year. Lars von Trier, Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg, and, yes, even David Lynch (
Inland Empire and
Wild at Heart rewatches), I watched them all this summer on my laptop, and it was absolutely great.
I'm actually planning to watch
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai) or
Melancholia (Lars von Trier) this evening, and even though I could use the TV I have here, I will leave it to my girlfriend, and watch the film on my laptop instead
A 1440p HDR OLED phone with infinite black levels held inches away from the face alongside a decent pair of headphones beats even an average TV that's three metres away across a room with terrible acoustics/light pollution and even poorer in-built speakers.
Re: It just occurred to me; Some fans WERE watching on phones/laptops
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 1:54 am
by Soolsma
Laptops with HD screens are perfect to snuggle up with,that's how I watched most of The Return. A phone would surely be too small for me.
These days, I have a nice beamer setup too ^^.
To answer the question: I guess what mostly matters is the quality that one finds acceptable and feels comfortable with.
I have friends that live a nomadic life, who adore Twin Peaks, and had no other option than watching The Return on phones or tablets. I can totally understand feeling the need to resolve a 25 year cliffhanger by any means necessary.
Re: It just occurred to me; Some fans WERE watching on phones/laptops
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:28 pm
by AXX°N N.
I thought the CGI work in S3 was too rough (as opposed to just rough) until I watched the bluray on a huge TV, where there was a marked improvement. In my experience CGI suffers the most from compression on streaming and broadcasts. The sound design difference between even a good torrent and a bluray is enormous, too. I had watched it 3 times but didn't feel like I actually watched it until I put the disc in.
Re: It just occurred to me; Some fans WERE watching on phones/laptops
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 4:32 pm
by BOB1
I don't care that much about quality of sound and vision, either in film or music (yes, strange for many as I listen to huge amounts of music - perhaps my punkrock roots made me insensitive to these subtleties
), however as far as watching films is concerned, what matters for me is the distance from the screen. I can hardly watch anything even on a fairly big computer screen because it's too close to my face! I need to be a good few metres away from the screen. Here perhaps my roots as a cinema-goer (we have a phrase "cinema-maniac" in my language) are the key factor.
Therefore, watching anything on a laptop, not to mention a phone, is out of question for me.