Serene scenes on HDTV no substitute for nature {Engadget HD}

Jun 18th 2008 10:45AM Agree with SOME KID comment above about any simulation is worse than actually being there. But as the producer of Sunrise Earth, a show which takes a little bit to put together... like finding some visual spots on the planet, going there with a couple high res HD cameras, assembling some 140 edits over the hour show... I find myself asking whether the content recorded on the HD (high or low res) cameras was really that engaging... it was, according to the UWashington study, recorded by a rooftop camera of the scene just outside the study site. Previous studies which showed some health benefits of scenes of nature were not images of a parking lot. Lastly, there probably were some cool things to look at in that parking lot, if you got on your knees with a macro lens and recorded the ants collecting food.