I’m sitting here quite enjoying Game 5 between the Phoenix Suns and L.A. Clippers.
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thing I’ve noticed about the TNT coverage this year, is what they consider to be safe-title for all their graphics. The shows are all shot in high-definition, and then downconverted for the unwashed. The graphics are all done for HD, and for the most part they aren’t really worrying about how they look when seen on a regular set. Everything is way too wide, and the font is very small. TNT has made the concious choice to format their show for the HD audience, which is something new indeed.
NDTV – New Dehli Television in India has now gone into a joint venture with General Electric to get into
the television post-production business. The main business they will be in to begin with is digital archiving, where tape libraries are being logged and digitized for online access. Are we going to see news edited offshore in the near future?
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Here’s something interesting, cable companies are looking at a system to allow subscribers to record shows on servers back at the plant, instead of on a home box. Even if they record every show once for multiple subs, think of the storage space required to yank this off. Anybody got a spare hard drive?
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One area this blog will explore is how the definition of what television is is changing. Television used to be something that was very expensive, centrally controlled by very large operations that could support the massive capital requirements of putting a signal on the air.
Today, television is still that traditional thing, but it is also becoming much more. It’s the display in the mall food court, it’s the church service piped closed-circuit into the homes of the elderly members, it’s the scoreboard at a hockey game, it’s Vancouver’s own Tiki Bar TV. The days of monolithic networks owning the audience are over, but something much more interesting is coming to replace it. I invite your comments as always.
