Years ago when Foreign corporations started to buy out American Studios the worry was that films like "Midway," would never be financed by say a Japanese Corporation. While the jury still may be out on that questions.
We now have evidences that corporate best interest are driving HD film production at Sony Pictures. Director of Photography David Connell, ASC was quoted in the February edition of American Cinematographer as saying, that he and the Director Craig Baxley, wanted to shoot Kingdom Hospital on film, "but Sony Pictures, the project's co-producer, pushed hard for high-definition (HD) video. "
Connell went on to explain, "Neither Craig nor I had worked with HD, and we didn't want to shoot a show like this on HD," ...I know that Craig wanted to do a lot of speed and shutter ramps, which you can't do with HD. Frankly, I just don't think that HD is there yet as a capture medium."
Judging by the rest of the article, his high contrast non glamour look would be hard to Handel with the limited latitude of video.
P.S. interesting article on "NBC's Miss Match and the use of Super 8 within the show.
