Documentaries in HD - why are they all about animals eating each other?
I must admit that I am not a huge watcher of nature documentaries, and sampling the HD delights of National Geographic and Discovery has reminded me why. It seems that all the programme makers want to show is animals killing and eating each other.
So far this afternoon I have seen Crocodiles chomping on Gazelles, wild dogs chasing small deer, Sharks hoovering up everything on the ocean floor and even a Sea Snail tucking into a Starfish.
If all that sounds like appetising viewing - you are going to love HD. As for me thanks goodness that Discovery HD is now showing a doc about the Bay Bridge in San Fran. The girders look great.
** Having said all that there are some Elephants on National Geographic and the picture quality is amazing - as good as anything else I have seen all day with the possible exception of the BeeB's Planet Earth.
Yes I noticed all the animals killing each other too, especially the crocs killing the wildebeast - charming. I also saw an incredible trailer on BBC HD for Life On Earth with David Attenborough - stunning gimble helecopter footage in HD. I did also notice that a lot of material on Sky 1 HD is upconverted SD and that I could not find any HD material on Sky Sports HD, it was SD everytime I checked. I ordered the box office HD Star Wars which looked stunning but I found it annoying for the fact I had to put my PIN number in every time I changed channel, it didn't record my box office movie and I got messages saying I would be charged the full rental rate if i recorded it, tis may be normal for sky box officw which I have not used before. I think the box is incredible.
Posted by: Simon Harris | May 23, 2006 12:29 AM