Holographic Television Is Coming

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Soon holographic technology will enable television viewers to see images from every angle, just as if they were present when the cameras captured those images.

How about television reception from all angles? You see a view of the subject matter from one direction, but you can also move a bit to the left or right and see beyond what you were seeing. You can see sides, front and back of the image you are watching. By changing your own position, you can even see from above or below as well as all sides of the image.

It is not yet possible, but it is coming. There are several companies working on the idea. It is hard to fathom television reception that is not on a two dimensional plane. All of the televiewing we have been able to do in the past is done on a flat or slightly rounded screen.

The screen is the major problem. The cameras are already able to produce holographic images. Having many cameras producing the images from many angles is quite possible. How to project all of those images at the same time and same place to form a three dimensional viewing experience is where technology still has to provide the answer.

Just think of how many novel features will be possible when the process is perfected and on the market. If you are watching a sporting event, you can move a little to the left or right and scan the spectators to see if your friend is in the crowd. A detective drama will be more easily solved by the viewers if they can adjust the angle of their viewing. The possibilities are nearly endless.

Already, science is using some instruments which resemble holographic television. Medical imaging techniques sort of do holographic-type activities. Still, they find it hard to consider the x, the y, and the z coordinates at the same time.

Think of 3-D movies without the need for those special glasses. It will be nearly the same as being present where the cameras are photographing. You can adjust your view by moving one direction or another. You will no longer be at the mercy of one camera’s point of view.

Disneyland had a novel idea when they introduced the 360 degree screens at the theme parks, but holographic viewing will far surpass the 360 concept.

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Friendly Persuasion (Movie)

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This movie revolves around challenges that a Quaker family has concerning their age-old religious ideas.

Although this movie was produced in the 1950s, it has been one of my favorites for many years. I used to see it on late night rerun movies on TV.

The story takes place during the Civil War and mostly revolves around a Quaker family whose Quaker ideas form many of the leitmotifs in the story. The family is supposed to be against violence and war. They are also against music. These are old Quaker ideas. However, when they surface in the story, these ideas are not always presented as ideal.

One of the features of the movie which makes it more appealing is the music soundtrack. Some of the words in the theme song are Quaker style, such as “Thee I love, more than the mulberries on the hill…”

The leading lady in the movie, Eliza Birdwell, is played by Dorothy McGuire. This character is supposed to be a perfect example of the Quaker minister in Indiana. However, some of shortcomings show up in the movie, especially when she takes a broom after one of the Southern soldiers who wants to kill the family goose. This is not a Quaker ideal, beating a man who wants to steal your family’s goose.

The goose, itself, is a comedy element in the movie when the son of Eliza is often being chased by the bird.

Other well-known actors in the movie include Gary Cooper as the Quaker father, Jess Birdwell, and Anthony Perkins of Psycho fame who plays a son of the Birdwell family.

Interesting highlights in the movie, in the author’s opinion, include when one of the family hides a musical instrument from the rest of the family. As model Quakers, they do not think music is appropriate for Christians. However, when another Quaker is visiting their farm and someone is playing with the instrument, they think it is music from Heaven.

The basic idea in the movie is the challenge of old ideas of a strong family in the Quaker sect. It makes for good viewing of a safe nature.

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