Well, we had our second ultrasound on Friday and the verdict was "all good". The ultrasound person described herself as being "very happy with baby's progress". We got the VHS recording and can report that it's as exciting as most ultrasounds. We chucked it in the VCR when we got home and I got up five minutes in to go and fix myself another drink. No, only joking, it's the Miracle of Life and all that, although it's not a very clearly defined miracle of life. Resolution still leaves a lot to be desired, and I can't believe they're not recording to DVD yet! What is this? The 20th century? In years to come Alpha will be asking what this black rectangular box thing hidden away in the back of some cupboard is. No, probably not, actually. I'm sure we will have digitised it by then and ditched the tape into the abyss. But will we be watching the digital version on DVD-HD or Blu-ray?! Ha, ha; that's the question that... probably very few people reading this... are asking, at the moment...
Anyway, the image above is the print-out they gave us. In case you can't tell what's what, they also gave us this enhanced version that should make things more clear.
So 19 weeks down, and what seems like a lifetime to go...
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ReplyDeleteBut will we be watching the digital version on DVD-HD or Blu-ray?!
ReplyDeleteNeither, surely. Why use a hi-def format when all you'll be doing is preserving the noise from the original VHS? DVD will do just fine, and I can't imagine that future players won't be able to handle it.
Heck, you could probably even get away with VCD...
Well I never specified how far into the future this imagined scenario might take place, so it's quite possible that by then DVD will have gone the way of the 10 megabyte hard disk and we will be watching it on a freshly burnt hi-def disc.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, come to think of it, I'll more likely be streaming it directly to my display from my Personal Media Centre Entertainment Station Box Device Console (patent pending).
I'm glad that in this Golden Miracle Of Life story you were able to find something to nit-pick, JJ. :-)
I'm glad that in this Golden Miracle Of Life story you were able to find something to nit-pick, JJ. :-)
ReplyDeleteOf course. Where would we be if there were things too sacred to be proofread? (Probably still wandering the desert outside Egypt in a vain search for bananas, or cabanas, or cannon...)
...by then DVD will have gone the way of the 10 megabyte hard disk and we will be watching it on a freshly burnt hi-def disc.
As long as the hi-def disc is a 7" optical disk, odds are the players will be backward-compatible with DVD (and CD-audio and VCD) for that matter, which is more than enough to capture all the information contained in a VHS recording of the output from an ultrasound machine.
So what good would a hi-def format be?
"Keep flogging. I think the horse moved."
Hi-def wouldn't have any advantages over a standard definition disc, but I imagine they'll be so ubiquitous and cheap that they'll be the only sort of disc available. Again, no-one still manufactures 10 meg hard disks because the 100 gig one is so cheap.
ReplyDeleteNeigh. Neigh.