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...almost tactile drama of the new music movies is a product of digital progress--advances in 3-D, smaller HD cameras and bolder audio. "You get all that intimacy, but you get a big sound to it, and suddenly you have something completely immersive," says Stephen Walker, the director of Young @ Heart, a quirky (2-D) documentary about a New England senior citizens' chorus that covers songs by the Clash and James Brown. Walker shot 81-year-old Fred Knittle singing Coldplay's Fix You with five small cameras at a Massachusetts theater. Because it was both unobtrusive and ubiquitous...
...liners—these were what made“Casablanca” great, not a pedantic obsessionwith visual detail. The profi t motivewas what fueled the creation of the Blurayformat. While this new format mayend up working out better for porn thanBetamax, it also needs to address artisticconcerns. Otherwise, HD-DVD playersmay someday bring in a pretty penny oneBay.—Columnist Andrew F. Nunnelly can bereached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...MEDIA 80% Percentage of high-definition DVDs sold last year in Sony's Blu-ray format. Because of Sony's dominance, Toshiba this week shelved its competing HD DVD format $2 billion Estimated amount Toshiba spent on HD DVD including efforts to gain film studios' support...
...founded HDnet, a network that broadcasts entirely in high definition. Why is HD so slow to dominate television? -Majeed Arni, Austin, TexasThe picture has been dumbed down. High-definition TVs have one of the highest return rates of any consumer-electronics products, because people get home and the picture quality sucks. If you watch a sporting event on HDnet or CBS, you can see the difference, but you can't on other networks...
...High-Definition adoption becomes mainstream over the next few years, how does Nintendo plan to compete in this new market? -Wes Schiel, Atlanta, GeorgiaClearly people are adopting HD and I think over time that will be something we will start to look at. We felt that with this generation, what was far more important was making a hardware system that was approachable-something people could look at and say, 'I want this in my home. It is small, quiet and intuitive and I know how to use it.' As HD adoption rates increase, it is likely that we may start...