Belton and Griffin noticed that the characters were always framed in the center of the picture, with the director essentially ignoring the possibilities of high-def's wider aspect ratio. Next up were two tapes cued 21 minutes into Martial Law . Ankosko noticed that a character on the high-def screen had been completely cropped out of the conventional picture. But the fast cutting and kinetic action are much harder to read in the widescreen version because there's so much more information. In more subdued scenes, though, Belton was impressed with the color and texture of the high-def image.
Hair looks very good.
You have this multiracial cast, and everyone has unique hair. Singling out a character with a Rastafarian weave, I was able to pick out every bead. I couldn't help but fixate, though, on a mole on one of the cast regulars, which wasn't nearly as apparent in the conventional broadcast. We next brought up a segment from Chicago Hope . Because of an epidemic, the hospital had been quarantined, forcing an infected physician to wear a spacesuit to seal in her germs while operating on a guy impaled with a tree limb.