Mar 19, 2005

HDTV: Low-def with bigger pores

Cory Doctorow says the FCC and TV executives are using the wrong approach when it comes to HDTV programming.
If governments want to get their citizens to switch to digital TV, they're better off shoving more of the standard-def programming out on the free-to-air stations in digital form (as they have in the UK) than hoping that the opportunity to see Jennifer Anniston's hairspray residue on a 36" set will convince every to throw away their TVs and start over.

Plus: Celebrity HDTV Do's and Don'ts:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
The star of Chicago and Traffic is absolutely gorgeous and it shows in high-def. Pity the aging Michael Douglas when he has to stand beside her in the high-def broadcast of an awards show. (See "Worse") The actress is so beautiful in high-def that even the hyphen between Zeta and Jones looks good.
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Michael Douglas
The actor was once considered a Hollywood sex
symbol. But now, in HDTV, he looks more like Kirk
Douglas than Michael Douglas. Being married to
Catherine Zeta-Jones doesn't help, either. He appears
even older when he's standing next to her. The Wall
Street star looks like eight miles of bad road.

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