TMI

I’m not sure I need to know the color of the hairs growing out of that mole, I think to myself.

I’m cognizant of the fact that this TV offers us considerably more detail than our TV at home. This is 4K UHD (Ultra High Definition, 4 times as many pixels as an HD TV), and it has an awful lot of information to give me.

Watching TV like this, where every individual detail washes across the screen and bombards you with knowledge of every nook and cranny, no matter how incidental to the story, is worlds apart from the 13 inch black and white TV I had in my room during my high school years (and I was lucky to have my own TV, too!).

A lot of shows were filmed before there was such a thing as HDTV, and if you play one of those shows on UHD TV, you’ll find these shows to be less effective. Directors and camera folks will often focus strongly on the thing they want you to look at or think about, and a lot of this magic and art is lost when everything is illuminated with intense reality.

This is a…