HDTV 1080p - The Way It’s Meant to Be Watched

I have brought home the new plasma 58 inch HDTV from Panasonic and all I can say is “wow”. Our family got together on a couch to watch a movie. The picture and audio were just stunning. This is the experience that I have never had before nor did I think I’d have.

I can still remember black and white TV sets and compared to this, it is a huge leap that I have never imagined to witness myself. When I was a child, I could have never imagined in my wildest dreams there would be things like this in future. Now I am seeing these things and all I can say is wow.

There’s that marketing line, “the picture is crystal clear”. I’ve heard that phrase so many times and I always thought it was cheesy to say it. I always thought they should have had to think of something more practical to describe it, but when you see it for yourself, you are literally speechless. It turns out that it’s really simply crystal clear!

To describe the experience of watching such picture, I guess you should say it’s like watching through the window, with the difference that it’s a better quality view that watching the view outside. Is that possible? But can a picture be of a better quality than the real view?

You see, my eyes are no longer the same as they were before so that adds to the effect too. But I think that in reality there is some level of disturbance. You cannot see as good into far distance or you can’t see as good from close at something, so the overall view gets kinda distorted. Meanwhile, in the HDTV picture, you see the picture from the same distance at the same time, and with the detail level that 1080p pulls off it’s like watching “reality in better quality”.

Reality in better quality. You heard that from me first I guess there’s a future to move further, but at this stage the picture can hardly get any better than this. Looking forward to 3D TV or something else that can add depth to what we have.