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RE: "One viewer just says no to the high of high-definition TV"

Posted by David Aiken on June 8, 2008 at 16:24:21:
"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