OMG #6

Call it a case of HD snobbery.
I have noticed over the past year that text has increasingly become smaller and smaller on TV shows and even video games (Alas, the zombies-at-the-mall game Dead Rising on our old TV was frustratingly unreadable and hence unplayable).

I suppose the thinking is that most people have HD TVs now so we can make script smaller and smaller cuz pixel size doesn't necessarily matter on HD. Not to mention if this trend continues people are going to go blind watching HD cuz they don't realize their eyes are really straining to see such small text.

And so it goes with this year's NCAA basketball tourney. The scores at the top of the screen from other games are so small they are unreadable. Is that 67-60? Or 67-58? Or 57-60? OR 57-58? ARRGHHH!!!

Another thing is to blame here as well. I am pretty into fonts. Not enough to be persuaded to buy font packages online mind you, but still pretty into them. And choice of font is where most sports channels fail miserably. Pick a font where the 5, 6, 8, 9, and 0 are easily determined and distinct from one another. Otherwise, it just drives your audience crazy. Drives ME crazy.

Thank you.

PS Now that Northern Iowa has effectively destroyed half of America's brackets by beating Kansas, good luck everyone!!!