K sat in the cockpit of his spinner, the engine humming a low, vibrating note that he felt in his teeth. Outside, the sky was a bruised purple, choked with smog and the holographic ghosts of advertisements dancing in the open matte of the widescreen world. No black bars hemmed him in here. The 4K resolution was cruel in its clarity. He could see the individual drops of rain on the glass, each one a tiny lens distorting the LA skyline. He could see the pores on his own skin in the reflection, the dark circles under his eyes. Every pixel of his existence was exposed.
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Let’s break down the actual experience of watching the 1.78:1 Open Matte 4K. K sat in the cockpit of his spinner,