HD Bites: Shark Week arrives with more HD than ever
July 29, 2010 by Derek
It’s almost August, which means a man’s annual rite of (TV) passage, Shark Week, on Discovery channel will be chomping at the bit to get onto your HDTV panel. Check our Engadget’s quick and dirty summary:
Do you really have to check the calendar to know what time of year it is? That’s right baby, it’s Shark Week, and as usual, Discovery’s taking a midsummer break to bring everything shark related to its prime time lineup. This year, Discovery follows up on one of the most-watched Shark Week specials of all time, Air Jaws, with Ultimate Air Jaws August 1 at 9 p.m., with 2,000 fps HD footage of great white sharks leaping out of the water to attack seals. Even if that’s not enough details (and time, with one second of footage expanded to an entire minute) to count every tooth in the shark’s mouth as the press release breathlessly claims, then check out Into the Shark Bite, where they inserted high speed HD cameras — where else — directly into a shark’s jaws.
If you’re a fan of big nasty sea animals (in HD not 3D, mind you), then you have to tune in this week to bite into your favorite species of shark.
