How history will remember this era...

Pulled out the trusty Bolex yesterday just to look at it. 'Made me reflect on this digital whirlpool we're caught in and its comparison to the origins of filmmaking.

A buncha years ago, they hated the lifelessness of black and white films. Theyt had a new technology to "paint" the film, so they did. We didn't care - it was new and snappy. A buncha years later, they found out that this video stuff was a lot less expensive. That was the end of your trusty NEWS anchor promising "film at eleven".

50 years from now, I think editors and directors will dust off our HDV tapes, MPEG-2 DVDs, and tapeless memory banks and scream bloody murder how the slope of quality dropped dramatically during the "HD daze". How we were so concerned with our server storage, our thumb-drives, FTP downloads, codecs, transcodes, and just general pixel monkeying, that the art of the moving image fizzled into the art of moving those images.

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