HD Update

Well, after me complaining about the TV, Chris futzed around with the settings and now the HD stuff looks great! He showed me what he changed.. one of them was something about turning off the "smoothing" option but don't ask me what it means. All I know is it looks way better now.

Yippee, HD

After discussing it for the last, oh, five years or so, we finally bought an HD TV last week. I like it, but... it is not quite as awesome as I thought it would be. The screen is nice, the picture is big, but some programs just look a little off.

It's hard to explain. The close-ups look good, but when we were watching The Tudors on DVD (granted, we don't have Blu-Ray) I started to notice that the shots that are farther out look like.... well, like we're watching PBS or a soap opera or something. Less polished. Also, I feel like I'm much more aware of the camera panning.

I chalked it up to being a regular DVD, but I have noticed the same thing on TV shows like Glee. On the other hand, Survivor looked great. I watched a few minutes of Empire Strikes Back on cable and I hate to say it, but it just didn't look that great.

Maybe it's just something I'll have to get used to, like the shaky hand-held camera thing that started a while ago. We'll see!