Possible HD Channels to soon be up

[whatchel1]

AMC HD

Not sure we can count out AMC HD (and IFC HD) as not going to be added. Right now it is still being carried on the SD channel so Rainbow may be able to seperate in their mind the difference between the Voom channels and those that all the providers are carrying.

 

[psychicmind]

I REALLY don’t care about MTV OR VH1 in HD! Don’t care about that channel since late 90s.. They don’t play music videos anymore, just bunch soft core porn's reality shows, who cares… is call MTV not RTV..just bunch horny kids & JR-highschooler watching it because of nudity!
But I upgrade from top200 to top250 programs and lately loves the “CHILLERTV” CH199, plays old school series like Friday the13, tells from the crape, night gallery, and so on and on… all good old series and movies in 70s & 80s/90s..And cant wait be gets it IN HD in October. ONLY wish was UNCUT. And don’t know why is NOT, because u have the upgrade to very higher programs to get it! That’s weird.. But is great channel! Anyway I always hunger for more HD channels .

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Older subscribers have a very hard time liking/loving Chiller when we just lost Monsters HD. Hopefully Chiller will do something cool with their HD, but all their TV series are on BETA tapes with grainy-low resolution. I have no doubt that the Friday the 13th Series on Chiller are being played on the original BETA tapes used in the late 1980's during the original syndication. Upconverting that won’t look good at all.

We used to have 24/7 uncut gory horror in glorious HD and 5.1 DD.

Don't get me wrong, I do record and watch Friday the 13th Series on Chiller, but I'm still waiting for a 24/7 dedicated uncut horror/sci-fi service.

IFC HD might get us more uncut horror, but since the same company that carries Monsters HD owns it, I'm not holing my breath.

Even without Monsters HD, Dish Network is still the superior satellite service provider (IMHO).

 

[Carl B]

If old movies (e.g., pre-1984 or so) aren't digitally re-mastered before they are broadcast in HD they look like crap. Despite all the talk about their native resolution being better than current HD, the color ones have color wash-over problems and the B&W are grainy. That's the way they looked in the movie theatres back then, but we didn't know any better. The digitally re-mastered old movies have the sharpness and edge clarity we have become used to with HDTV over the past yearss.

 

[Bobby H]

A lot of "catalog" movies being shown in HD on cable/satellite (or even being authored onto Blu-ray) are using old HD telecine based sources originally prepared for DVD.

Unless the film print is perfectly clean and the HD telecine equipment is operating perfectly, you're going to see problems with such video transfers. The low resolution of DVD Video hid many of the flaws of those sources, but the flaws show up all too well when seen in high definition and on higher bit rate formats like Blu-ray. Dirt specs, tiny scratches, image movement (such as side-weave), weaker color quality and an overall softer look are all things that can be seen in a cheaper, less accurate HD telecine video transfer.

It costs more money to scan the original camera negatives (or best surviving elements) and process them via digital intermediate. But the results are so much more accurate. That method is a lot better than just grabbing some old 2nd or 3rd generation print and running it through a telecine.

That's the way they looked in the movie theatres back then, but we didn't know any better.

Before blockbusters like Jaws and Star Wars were released, most movies had a pretty limited number of prints in their inventory. It wasn't until the 1980s that studios opened big movies with more than a couple thousand 35mm prints. The movies that had fewer prints saw those prints travel to numerous theaters and get played so much that the print would finally end up badly faded and damaged. Today, it's common to see a first run multiplex get 2 or 3 prints of a certain movie on opening day and lose 2 of those prints after a couple of weeks. Those extra prints often get shredded and recycled rather than go to any other theaters.

I remember seeing a lot of movies at drive-in theaters when I was just a kid. Drive-in theaters usually received different prints deliberately made brighter (and arguably more faded looking) to counter the problem of throwing a 35mm image onto huge, outdoor screens.