Let us not forget sports coverage. This seems to get better all the time.
I felt that the overall quality of the 2010 winter olympic games
coverage was fantastic. A new high.
Amazing HD quality, amazing angles. editing and FX. Tight scripting and
packaging. An enjoyable mix of compelling human drama and unavoidable
schmaltz.
There was the men's figure skating circus, the luge thrills, the epic
hockey game, short track excitement, the biathlon, the athlete and host
county profiles, the ceremonies. Each venue was a unique challenge.
All needed to be executed under weeks of pressure, for a worldwide
audience. Frankly, I couldn't take my eyes off it -- even the curling.
:-)
At a time when NBC can't seem to get anything right, I feel they deserve
huge props for achieving this level of programming. I couldn't help
thinking that this was one of the all-time television highlights of my
lifetime. Made even better by the HD-DVR.
And it will all surely be ruined by 3D, the next time around.
RT
Tom McDonnell wrote:
>
>
> >Have you seen an episode of "Fantasy Island" recently? It's embarrassing.
>
> In what way? You are mixing and matching style vs. standards. TV Episodic
> Film Cinematography matured slower than feature work due to time,
> budgetary
> and speed of implementation constraints.
>
> The zoom lenses of the 70's where not as good as today. Remember the zoom
> effect and how over used it was? Until the late 80's, Television Film and
> Electronic Cinematography in the 50's, 60's and 70's was lit largely
> by hard
> Fresnel's not soft box sources like today. The DP's and Lighting Directors
> of the day learned that way so that was the look. This also with
> slower film
> stocks, NTSC cameras, hard light needing less clean-up and the
> Receiver and
> Transmitter issues is what attributed to the hard Fresnel look. Star Trek,
> Hogan's Heroes, Mannix, Streets of San Francisco, Lost In Space, All
> In The
> Family where all "hard light source" Fresnel shows. In the late 70's
> moving
> into early 80's a more naturalistic look slowly began to take over.
>
> I think the biggest fault and complaints stem from old or even
> original film
> transfers that are even today still the masters for old shows that weren't
> exactly high art to begin with. I remember the first time I saw the
> original
> 60's Star Trek in 35mm on VHS. I rented it from FotoMat. Anybody remember
> FotoMat? Up until that time, the late 70's, the only Star Trek episodes I
> had ever seen where run from beat to death 16mm prints run on local TV
> station telecines. Now you look at it on Blu-Ray and everybody gasps in
> breathless wonder. Did the cinematography suddenly improve or change? Nope
> sure didn't. All the 60's Sci-Fi shows where "cartoon" primary color
> shows.
> This was done for a reason, color TV was new. I remember the first time I
> saw Hogan's Heroes in HD. Not exactly high art but damn it sure did look
> good. So I would enjoy it all over again if I had the show on Blu-Ray.
>
> Frankly I find the soft source look of today's TV shows to be a bit mushy.
> Some are better than others. It all starts to look the same because it is.
> It is no different than the 60's and 70's. The lenses, film stocks and
> film
> transfer technology of today are light-years ahead of what they used
> to be.
> This in large part due to a more featuresque production approach. That is
> why TV looks "technically" so good today. As far as better than old TV
> shows? I would intensely disagree.
>
> In 50 years whose going to be watching Law and Order or Great Race?
> But you
> can guarantee Star Trek and old shows from the 60's will be re-transferred
> to the latest format dejour.
>
> TMcD
>
>
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