fordy said:
Beijing's was, as I mentioned, a visual spectacular. However, the drums just by itself couldn't exactly give the depth that Sydney's entire performance made, which told an amazing story, and not to mention the best soundtrack ever for an opening ceremony. I take it that being from Costa Rica, you watched the Sydney feed through NBC, where half of the ceremony was either cut down tremendously for ad breaks or the news, or breaking choreography to show irrelevant crap through the wrong cameras unlike the choreographed camera sequence used by the Seven Network. |
Beijing's was extra spectacular as it was in full HD with 5.1 surround sound which made the huge synchronized crowds look and sound amazing. The HD was a lot better as well then today with the London olympics. My cable company is using a lot more compression nowadays to get more 'HD' channels through the same pipe. Pixelation was pretty bad throughout the show. Rowing and swimming don't look all that great either. 1080i sure... when nothing is moving.
I can't remember much of the Sydney one, I remember Greece's from 2004 and the amazing flaming arrow shot from Barcelona, but Sydney draws a blank, maybe I missed it :/ I'll watch it later, YouTube has a 720p feed.
