"Take away the high-def pictures," and the premiere of 'Dan Rather Reports' on HDNet "looked like the old 'CBS Reports,' a documentary series that stretches back to the days of Edward R. Murrow," Tim Cuprisin says.

He says the HD images "offer a realism unavailable on conventional news shows. From astonishingly crisp battle footage to emotional scenes of soldiers coming home from the war, the high-def documentary compounded the realism of conventional TV reporting." More...