Dear CSI writers

[iainjclark]

Dear CSI writers,

Just a few things to help you on your way...

Radio-monitored shopping tags used to track individuals?

Fingerprints analysed for clues to lifestyle

DNA could be used to predict your surnameIt's amazing how many of these stories keep popping up. You'll note that not a single one of them says "Laws of physics changed - now

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[veggiesu]

You'll note that not a single one of them says "Laws of physics changed - now possible to zoom into reflections 300 times using grainy CCTV footage". (Something they did on the episode of Bones we just watched, despite scoring highly a few minutes earlier by referring to the impossibility of enhancing the resolution of an image.)

Ooh, that really annoyed me when they did that on Bones. I mean, aside from the 3D Holoprojector, they're not normally too bad with the fauxscience stuff; and when they explained that you couldn't enhance the image I thought "wow, *finally* a TV show that gets it". And then they went and enhanced the image :-( What is it about CCTV footage and photos that TV shows just can't resist?

[ajp]

One word.

"Lazy writing"...

what do you mean "that was two words"? ;-)

[iainjclark]

What bothers me is that they don't even leave the image looking blurry, or pixellated, but still understandable. They just can't resist showing a crisp new unprocessed photo. It's like they're not even trying!

[majuran]

Did you catch any of the "unaired" eps of The Inside on ITV4? They zoomed in on something t'other day and was all pixelly \o/