On a large screen close-ups look ridiculous. American TV often uses way
too many of them and foreign TV not so much or not at all. The
commentary on the "Utopia" BD mentioned that they purposely avoided
close-ups. I learned back in the early 1970s from some folks who had
done US TV series that the close-ups were done for save money. Actors
didn't have to do anything with their hands. But was one of the things
that stood out about "The Prisoner" way back then, it didn't have a lot
of closeups. Arguing this on a tech forum gets comments from production
people that "it's a style" but they probably weren't in the business way
back then and likely not even born yet.
"The Blacklist" season 2 opener was good except for too many close-up
shots. Also I think Comcast (who now owns NBC) understands that on
streaming you can't overload the shows with commercials like broadcast
does. But ABC and FOX don't understand this. People complain about
this a lot on Hulu+. Hehe, after using Chromecast a while which
"captures" the web stream and sends it to your TV (like
teleconferencing), I got to thinking about how just capturing the
browser and recording it to the hard drive might work. Very well with
Linux and you can run a little program to cut the ads out too. Then
play back on on TV.
Unfortunately I found "Gotham" cliché just like the Wired article says.
I won't bother after the pilot even with Donal Logue in the cast. The
best thing he has done on TV was a character in "Son of Anarchy" a
couple seasons back. I don't think Turq saw it because SOA may not been
his "cuppa tea". Kurt Sutter is another showrunner like Vince Gilligan
who can actually create 13 episodes worth seeing.
On one of the home theater forums, a guy who lives in NYC and has a
Chromecast complains he can't use it because of all the wifi routers in
his apartment building. The biggest feature request for Chromecast 2.0
is a dual band model.
On 09/24/2014 04:54 AM, danfriedman2002 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
I use Chromecast too, casting to my 55" LED panel. Amazon and VUDU
and sometimes Hulu+ with my BD player. The VUDU app has problems with
Chromecast and Hulu+ will try to show "selected" ads in HD and freeze
for a few seconds. That doesn't happen with the BD player where they
stream only SD commercials and then the show in 720p. Some shows on
Hulu+ like "Blacklist" can be 1080p on Chromecast.
This may come as a surprise to those who know me only here on ffl as a
Humanist and kinda poetic.
Bhairitu - i understand everything you're saying about the interaction
of these technologies. Just let me know if you have a question or two
that I can help with.
See you,
d
