{"id":5650,"date":"2008-02-18T09:38:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:13","slug":"live-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/live-hd\/","title":{"rendered":"Live HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI attended the New York Metropolitan Opera yesterday, except I was in California. The Met has a new program of broadcasting their current opera <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoperafamily.org\/metopera\/broadcast\/hd_events.aspx\">live to HD<\/a> digital projection movie theaters around the country. Our local cineplex in Daly City (Bay Area) was one of the hosts so I gave it a try. I was an opera virgin, but really enjoyed it.&#160;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/2007-03-07-Opera-and-HD.jpg\" height=\"233\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"2007-03-07-Opera-And-Hd\" \/>&#160;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI could easily follow along with the subtitles. The big screen quality was excellent, minus three or four glitches in the transmission (everyone stutters for a few seconds). But overall you get the best seat in the house. You are close enough (via the camera) to see the actor&#8217;s faces, and in between scenes to go backstage and witness the elaborate mechanics of stage-craft. Like football, watching in HD is far better than being at the game itself. The Met HD Live gives a hint of how great hi-def media will transform spectacles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/NABUCOa1Fire_233.jpg\" height=\"284\" width=\"446\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Nabucoa1Fire 233\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the New York Metropolitan Opera yesterday, except I was in California. The Met has a new program of broadcasting their current opera live to HD digital projection movie theaters around the country. Our local cineplex in Daly City &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/live-hd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[268],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}