Everybody's raving about HDTV but the technology is still misunderstood. Thursday I got to be a part of a St. Louis high definition television first. News4 and our prime competitor are both now broadcasting in HD. But even for those with a high definition TV set, only the studio segments of the newscasts are in high def. That's because the studio cameras are high definition, not the camera news photographers use to shoot the stories in field. However, the transition has started. Several stories have been photographed in high def and even edited in high def, but because they were fed back to the studio by satellite or microwave they did not air in high definition. But last Thursday News4 photographer Laura Bluedorn and I did a story about abandoned lead mines in Jefferson County and Laura used her new high def camera. In the business the story we produced is called a "package." It was edited at the station in high defintion. We believe it's the first locally produced high definition news package to air in St. Louis. It's a really remarkable difference. Unfortunately, it's not high def on the internet but here's a link to the story. Watch my story

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