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Fellowship of the Ring in HD this weekend
TNT is playing FOTR the entire weekend, and if you get HD channels you can see in HD. I caught the first five minutes, and I think it looks a lot better than the DVD. I just saw the extended edition last week on the same TV.
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Bastard Comcast in LA doesn't carry TNT in HD. :mad:
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Originally Posted by FinkPish
Bastard Comcast in LA doesn't carry TNT in HD. :mad:
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Looks better is debatable, since they didnt show it in OAR. I watched about 5 minutes and moved onto something else.
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Originally Posted by ENDContra
Looks better is debatable, since they didnt show it in OAR. I watched about 5 minutes and moved onto something else.
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Originally Posted by al_bundy
TNT is playing FOTR the entire weekend, and if you get HD channels you can see in HD. I caught the first five minutes, and I think it looks a lot better than the DVD. I just saw the extended edition last week on the same TV.
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Originally Posted by Jay G.
The LOTR movies were digitally rendered in 1.78:1, which was then cropped for the 2.35:1 theatrical image. Did anyone record this airing or could otherwise tell if it was shown open-matte?
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I saw a bit of LOTR when it was on the WB and TNT. On the TNT showing, I did not see any black bars, but I saw black bars for the WB showing. Not sure what this means since I don't have hd cable.
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Originally Posted by Jay G.
The LOTR movies were digitally rendered in 1.78:1, which was then cropped for the 2.35:1 theatrical image. Did anyone record this airing or could otherwise tell if it was shown open-matte?
I emailed TNT about my disappointment with this broadcast...of course Im sure that Ill never see any kind of response either. |
With all of the effects shots, there's no way that it could ever be open-matte. That's to say that the crew put in 20% extra into the CG shots, just to crop out? Movies like this doesn't have open-matte as an option.
That being said, I'm perfectly happy with my DVDs' a/v. |
Originally Posted by Gallant Pig
I really doubt they would be digitally rendered to 1.78:1, do you have a link that backs this up? Thx.
About 3,100 shots (78% of the Super 35 film) were color graded at Colorfront in Wellington, NZ using 5D Colossus software after being scanned by an Imagica XE scanner full 2K resolution (2048*1536). The color-graded shots were then recorded on Kodak 5242 intermediate film by two Arri Laser film recorders at 10 bits per channel. Because only 78% of the film was digital, a digitally squeezed anamorphic print could not be made for the whole movie. Instead, the digital shots were recorded on an inter-negative hardmatted at 1.77:1, intercut with the non-digital original negative (which had been color timed by The Film Unit, NZ), and printed to 2.39:1 anamorphic Kodak film using an optical printer at Deluxe, LA. Fuji 3519-D was used for release prints. http://dvd.ign.com/articles/366/366890p1.html?fromint=1 All the 4:3 shots have more info on the top and bottom. So yes, troystiffler, they did render 20% extra image to be cut off in the theatrical. |
The only movie I've ever seen broadcast in 2.35:1 OAR was Judge Dredd on HBOHD. I don't understand why more movies aren't broadcast in OAR when shown in high definition.
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Re: HBO -- All of Lion's Gate's 2.35:1 movies are presented intact, and some older transfers (Anaconda, Boogie Nights, and Gattaca, to name a few) are as well. Solaris is a rare example of a more recent film where its scope aspect ratio isn't butchered. (At least, the part of Solaris I flipped by...)
Showtime, HDNet, and HDNet Movies almost always show movies in their original aspect ratio, FWIW. |
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