I'll have to check that out.
Did you see the Discovery Channel series,
When We Left Earth ? It was excellent in general. But in a latter episode, they had a couple of shuttle launches that were filmed in HD. Simply incredible. I rank it *very high* on the scale of 'oh wow' HD content. Had an amazing amount of three-dimensionality to it. It looked like you could reach out and touch the shuttle. People talk about how really good HD video can almost be like you're looking through a window at the real world. This was like that. Simply superb footage.
I haven't ever seen a launch in person, but I would love to some day.
