The Film Industrys interest in HD

HD is now here, but it isn't quite there in the film industry. Many directors and cinema companies are not using the new technologies of HD that are inevitably going to bring great advantages to them.
Some recent films have been filmed using HD technology such as Superman Returns and Apocalypto which were shot on Genesis as well as Michael Mann’s Miami Vice, shot on the Viper, and David Lynch’s Mini DV Inland Empire, shot with Sony’s PD150. However, there were some problems with these, displaying some distorted images due to their formats.
David Fincher’s Zodiac is due to show the latest in HD technology in the cinemas shortly, using the Viper and is said to be the first major Hollywood production that will exist as pure data from beginning to end. Having developed the Viper to his own specifications, Fincher bypassed tape for an S.two hard drive, and in the process captured the movie completely as 4:4:4 uncompressed HD, an impossibility with tape.
Although there has been some hesitancy towards using the new HD technology by the film industry, it appears that the realisation has come that without the movement towards new media technologies, the industry will face huge problems, similar to those faced by the music industry.