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CNN's Inside the Blogs - Why So Poorly Produced?
There's been lots of talk about CNN's "Inside the Blog" segment on Inside Politics. Basically, two CNN staffers get in a studio with two Macs hooked up to large plasmas and attempt to tell the world what the "bloggers" are talking about that day.
Does anyone else think the segment looks awful? Two cameramen (that are frequently visible on-screen) shakily zoom into the plasmas as the CNN staffers highlight and scroll what they're reading. I rarely can even read what's on the screen.
Why not get a direct hookup to the video out like they used to use on TechTV? It can't be that hard... and it's pretty safe to say CNN won't stop covering blogs.
Perhaps there's something I'm missing, but come on CNN, get your act together.
Posted in on April 12, 2005, 05:17 PM | Permalink
Comments
It's not that hard and I totally agree -- TV networks basically just use a souped up version of what is the S-video TV out on most nVidia video cards. I'm sure they make special cards for it, but it's the same premise, and if they wanted to, they could use one of those and it would probably look better.
Posted by: Tim Clarke at April 27, 2005 01:17 AM
