Ohm-Bob
03-27-2009, 06:14 PM
I can't be the *only* one noticing the drastic reduction in picture quality and production value that started with the latest season!
It looks like they're now producing the *whole* show on consumer-grade, inexpensive shaky hand-held cameras, then probably post-production on a laptop! Yuck! (The first episode in Hawaii looked like it was sent over the internet.)
I understand that everyone needs to cut expenses, these days, and the cheaper equipment has its uses (such as sticking it out the window on a rainy dirt backroad, attaching to an ATV or clips taken unerwater. But to produce the *entire program* this way is just wrong. The beautiful scenery is being squandered on cheap equipment. (For comparison, they're still running old episodes almost daily.)
Guess I just expect more from HDNet, especially from folks who historically have been worried over the years about degrating PQ, lowered bitrates, and so on...
It looks like they're now producing the *whole* show on consumer-grade, inexpensive shaky hand-held cameras, then probably post-production on a laptop! Yuck! (The first episode in Hawaii looked like it was sent over the internet.)
I understand that everyone needs to cut expenses, these days, and the cheaper equipment has its uses (such as sticking it out the window on a rainy dirt backroad, attaching to an ATV or clips taken unerwater. But to produce the *entire program* this way is just wrong. The beautiful scenery is being squandered on cheap equipment. (For comparison, they're still running old episodes almost daily.)
Guess I just expect more from HDNet, especially from folks who historically have been worried over the years about degrating PQ, lowered bitrates, and so on...
