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In Reply to: "One viewer just says no to the high of high-definition TV" posted by clarkjohnsen on June 8, 2008 at 12:32:07:
"HDTV doesn't give us the real so much as the hyper-real, an artificial heightening of reality, the turning of a clarity knob."
Gee, HD is more real than real. I thought it was better than SD but still a tad short of the real thing.
"SDTV does for us what our consciousness does naturally - it filters out the unnecessary."
It certainly 'filters out' some things but are those things the ones we personally want filtered out all of the time. It seems to me we're better off letting our consciousness filter out those things we find unnecessary which may not be the same things as others find unnecessary. Leaving it to the machine gives us no choice since the machine has no idea what I personally want to see/hear and what I would prefer to see filtered.
It's only worth going for options which limit personal choice if the option only ever works the way you want. Otherwise you end up losing somewhere sooner or later.
David Aiken
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Follow Ups
- RE: "One viewer just says no to the high of high-definition TV" - David Aiken 16:24:21 06/08/08 (5)
- You take exception to his exceptionalism I see... nt - clarkjohnsen 07:34:49 06/09/08 (0)
- reminds me of those people whose audio system is so revealing... - tunenut 21:01:01 06/08/08 (3)
- The latest HD - unclestu52 22:49:21 06/09/08 (2)
- "Academy Awards ceremony where they pointed out that the stars have to redo their makeup" - GTF 05:49:28 06/10/08 (1)
- It's rather funny - unclestu52 12:34:46 06/10/08 (0)
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