The Future Of Music Videos: Do We Really Want To See Kid Rock’s Pit Stains In High-Definition?

Jess Harvell | January 25, 2008 2:00 am

As many of you already know, American television is going entirely high-definition* digital in 2009, which now means the opening half of this sentence has nothing to do with the technology of high-definition TV’s promising us a world where we’ll be able to count the nose hairs on our favorite stars in real time and without the aid of gossip blog paparazzi snaps. Maura recently converted to HD herself, and though certain music videos (she cites Justice’s “D.A.N.C.E.” as an example) look totally rad, the drawbacks of this industry-wise format change are already becoming apparent to music fans. It’s all good when it’s a luminous Rihanna strutting across that expensive plasma flat screen, but what about being confronted with Rascal Flatts at a resolution the human psyche was not intended to process? As we await our blemish-filled immediate future, please help us decide which musician will prove to be the least HD-friendly when the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31.

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* My unfrozen caveman’s grasp of technology is why they keep me here, where I can be left alone to write about old Huey Lewis videos, rather than on Gizmodo.