Dave Winer: "I've now had HD for about a month now, and it's a life-changer. I know it sounds weird, but you look at the world differently.... Yesterday they had a camera on a cow farm in Vermont. No voice track, no narration, just the sounds of nature and cows grazing. Incredibly captivating. This is TV as a meditation medium."
Robert Scoble: "The PR folks led me into a room. I turned on my camera. I thought there were six people around a desk at first.... We say hi, but then I notice that the three people on the other side of the desk are actually on HD screens and aren’t in the room at all."
These experiences resonate completely with how I felt when I first saw HDTV in action last month -
"It seems ridiculous now but my gut reaction was that there was some trickery going on.... that it wasn't a real TV picture I was looking at. It just seemed too lifelike, almost like looking through a window"
I'm going to wait a while for prices to come down and for more Free-to-Air channels to launch (besides BBC HD) but I'm looking forward to HDTV more than any technology I've awaited in years.
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