The trailer is indeed spectacular. I was just a bit disappointed in the scene where Neo fights a crap load of agents. I read a bit on the tech involved and they were previously claiming to have perfected digital actors. They use cameras in every direction to film an actors movement and then digitize it. They then use this information to make a fully manipulable avatar they can place in whatever act they desire, with resolution down to facial hair movement in the wind. Having suffered through the really bad CGI movements in Blade II, Daredevil, Spiderman, etc, I was looking forward to seeing the results. Their movements are indeed significantly improved, but the textures were way off and didn't look real at all. Of course, I was looking for it as well...
And just to nitpick because I don't feel like working:
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While this definitely requires Broadband unless you wish to set it to download and come back a few days later, there's nothing exceptional about the video that requires anything advanced.
All computer monitors and usually the information displayed on them are progressive. Progressive just means each frame of video is a full image whereas interlaced alternates between refreshing lines of video.
Most computers can render a 3D video game at speeds above 60fps, making 24fps a little trivial. And DVD video quality isn't all that spectacular at 480 lines of vertical resolution but our typical NTSC TV tech blows so much more that you don't notice.
And that's today's computer trivia.
Regards,
Semi