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Ultrasound at 7 weeks 4 days, and a cat toy convention under the stove, damming up water overflowing from the dishwasher.

On HDTV:

I know I've thought "boy, HDTV, what's the big deal?" On Monday I saw HD hockey for the first time. Now that's the big deal. If all hardware has something called a "killer app", HD hockey is the "killer app" for me and HDTV. I watched the first period of the Stanley Cup Finals on an LCD HDTV, and then watched the rest of the game on our standard definition set at home. First thing I noted was, holy crap, how much color information is thrown out on a standard definition broadcast? Standard def is so muddy and gray in comparison. Standard def also has much less detail information in it, which is obvious (720x480, or more commonly 640x480 vs 1920x1080). Then, more subtly, I noticed the audio is much different too. Both sets had only 2 speakers in them, so I was just  hearing a stereo field, but the HD audio was so much more lively, so much more atmospheric. The sound wasn't quite like "I am there at the game", but it was much better than the standard def broadcast. Here's how I've started noticing a standard definition metaphor: YouTube is to Standard definition TV as Standard definition TV is to  HDTV.
 
   

 


 
 
xkachoojix on
Re: It's a combo deal:
I saw some skateboarding on HDTVs at Best Buy the other day, and I think I'm still in the "boy, HDTV, what's the big deal?" category.  If seeing skating on one didn't convince me...I don't know...anime maybe?
mclii on
Re: It's a combo deal:
That's interesting, I saw HD skateboarding the other day, and although the "competition skateboarding" genre seems really silly with play by play, the picture was awesome. Oh, and the sound. The sound actually sounded like I was standing on the ramp (when the announcers would stop talking). It had that hollow ramp sound with wheels sounding like they're ripping screws out of the plywood. It was sweet. The anime that I've seen in HD has been quite nice (looks more like the actual hand drawn cells of animation--pencil lines and things), but I couldn't tell you what I was watching.

 
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