The first snow trial!

The first real snow had touched the ground and it actually felt like December.  I was proud to take 3D pictures of this because snow always got me excited.  I was like a young kid again with a new toy to play with.  I added up the pictures and saw that I took almost eight gigabytes of pictures so far but it was worth every memory amount just because a great 3D picture made the effort worth it.  I went around to some different spots in the woods to take some snow pictures.  It wasn’t really an exciting event and there wasn’t enough light or snow to justify the effort.  I was not happy because I could not get any really good snow pictures so I went back inside and decided to do some post-production work on the computer.  I started thinking that the holidays were approaching and that there will be some family members and friends coming to my home and I thought it would be a great time to show everyone the 3D pictures when they came over.  I didn’t have too many anaglyph glasses or really anyway to show everyone without using the computer.  I went out and purchased a relatively inexpensive Blu-Ray player to replace the HD-DVD player and I added a longer HDMI cable to compliment the player.  I could now put the anaglyph pictures on a disc and display them on the 720P television in my family room.  It was sad to say “goodbye” to my HD-DVD player but it knew the time would eventually come.  When I first saw a movie on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray it felt like the first time I saw a Laserdisc film when I was younger.  The HD-DVD versus the Blu-Ray war was actually a good thing for the consumer market even though it seemed like a bad thing and that it was an annoyance because when Toshiba made the executive decision to allow Sony to rule the High-Definition market a lot of people felt like they wasted their money on an already obsolete technology.  The HD-DVD was region free so you could order “Brother Hood of the Wolf” from France and watch it with little (correctly choosing English in the beginning) or no problems at all.  The Blu-Ray was not region free but you could find region free Blu-Rays on the internet and watch them with ease.  The main reason why this war of the 1080p movies was good because Toshiba poured an insane amount of money into solid state research and development.  This only meant that memory cards were going to get bigger and cheaper very quickly.  The ability to show JPEGS from a DVD-R on a Blu-Ray device was great because it showed the picture at optimal quality.  I was getting closer to my goal of showing other people these pictures almost like it was going my first art exhibition.  Unfortunately I still didn’t have any really impressive pictures to boast about but that day was sure to come.