National Geographic grabs up more HD content
National Geographic's Digital Motion unit, which is essentially the digital media distribution arm of National Geographic, has just given its HD materials a boost of more than 170 hours of content. The bump comes from a combination of acquisition and licensing deals. Amongst the HD footage are: sky footage from Bernd Pröschol; 70 hours of underwater footage from Pawel Achtel; 12 hours taken from "more than 10,0000 scenes around the world" from BlackLight Films; more than 60 hours of natural vistas and time-lapse images from Glusic; and 13 hours of nature and cultural film from J Michael Media. No word on when we can expect to see the new goodies showing up in National Geographic content, though.
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mongoos150 @ Sep 23rd 2007 1:54PM
Nice to hear - Natl. Geographic has been the most disappointing HD channel in my HD lineup in terms of content. Most of it looks like badly upconverted SD.
JeffDM @ Sep 24th 2007 12:18AM
How much of that is actual finished media? When I read "footage", I understand it as raw material that needs to be cut down and assembled to be made into a show. Ten hours of footage might make an hour's worth of a documentary, or even less. In one extreme case, I've heard of an hour documentary coming out of 160 hours of footage.
shrek79 @ Sep 24th 2007 12:20AM
To bad there HD DVD's don't play in the 360 HD dirve. That's a large market to exclude.
shrek79 @ Sep 24th 2007 12:21AM
Too bad there HD DVD's don't work in the 360 HD Drive. That is a large market to exclude.