High Definition Launch Video...

> The extra weight of cameras could be justified by just cutting a few BS
> small "side projects" that the shuttles always carry up. (Could anyone

> less about the effects of weighlessness of an ant colony?)

>Being able to "fully immerse" viewers into the launch would also generate
>much more support.

>Looking forward to seeing what the B-57's caught in HD. Hopefully, more
>and more cameras will start broadcasting (live) in HD. Yeah, films can ne
>transfered to HD video months after the event to be aired on short
>"Discovery HD" mini-segments, but wouldn't it be cool to watch it in HD
>live? It'd be great to record it in HD too, either DVR or whenever HD-DVD
>or BluRay actually sees the light of day. I'm not wanting to "over-analyze"
>the video of launch (frame by frame), but to just sit back and see it for
>all it's beauty and to see the forest for the trees.
>How about more "Hollywood-angles" too? Like, perhaps, live HD video feeds
>from inside the cockpit right behind commander/pilot and looking out the
>front windshields. That be a cool as hell vantage point when they start
>doing their rolls and the Earth's horizon comes into view. Maybe some
>"extreme angles" looking back at the Earth, falling away, over the wing.
>The extra weight of cameras could be justified by just cutting a few BS
>small "side projects" that the shuttles always carry up. (Could anyone care
>less about the effects of weighlessness of an ant colony?)
>Being able to "fully immerse" viewers into the launch would also generate
>much more support. I've seen many actual launches in person and while they
>are more exciting than watching it on TV, it isn't as interesting. TV
>viewing simply doesn't have the "exciting" aspect, mainly because its always
>been the same type of camera points-of-view for decades. With HD and a
>"fresh" approach, it could be awesome though.
>Anyway, random musings..
>Cheers!
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