My cable company is adding Universal HD, finally get to see BSG in HD . How many of you watch this channel and are the movies or shows unedited and/or commercial free?

I watch it pretty regularly -- I've been catching up on Monk, Battlestar Galactica, and Karen Sisco on Universal HD (and occasionally watch Law and Order: SVU if nothing else is on). Their selection of movies is mostly dismal, but there are some gems every once in a while. I've watched The Evil of Frankenstein (Hammer), Casino, 12 Monkeys, and Thoughtcrimes on there, with The Frighteners, U-571, Spy Games, and Curse of the Werewolf slated to DVR.

Movies are unedited and commercial free. TV shows aren't commercial-free, but the breaks are really short (as many as 3 commercials and as few as 1). I've had it for around 2 months and find myself watching it much more frequently than I thought I would.

The fact they still seem to play a 4 hour block of Olympic coverage every day is only further proof they need to expand their slate of programming a bit. I watch it just as much as HDNet, but I don't feel I really get my $11/month worth out of any of the channels in the DirecTV HD package.

Good to hear this will show unedited commercial free HD movies. I am happy to be getting another HD channel, I think I will upgrade and finally get Showtime and Starz since they are adding Starz HD. Now if they would finally add Fox-WB (local owner is trying to squeeze Cox for more $$) TNT and OETA it would make me happier.

Starz-HD is not worth it, if you have to pay any extra. Only a very small percentage of what they air is in HD. Showtime's pretty bad about that too (maybe 3 out of every 5 movies), but they are committed to showing everything in their original aspect ratio, which is a plus. I personally find Showtime's selection of movies (which rarely changes much month-to-month) disappointing.

I've been Tivoing KAREN SISCO at my sister's house. Carla in HD.

this channel plays way too much cancelled tv for my tastes.

UHD: Aka the "Welcome to New York" and "2004 Olympics" channel.

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I have only see a few shows off UHD but what I have seen is pretty good. BSF is high def is awesome. I only have a 4:3 55" RPTV but the HD version is still much better than when see on the SciFi channel.

Damn, I wish Comcast would pick this channel up.

Do they show the new episodes of BSG the same day/week as Sci-Fi?

UHD has a showing of The Frighteners coming up. I have my HD Tivo set up for that one and am looking forward to it.

The first season of Galactica didn't start on UHD until a few weeks after it ended on Sci-Fi. I don't know what they'll be doing once the second season starts.

Either way, I'm happy to rewatch S1 again.

Are movies that have never been released to dvd like Evil of Frankenstein, Brides of Dracula and Curse of the Werewolf shown widescreen(formatted 1:78) or the same old full screen versions?

UHD is at least 16x9 for everything they show. Other than a few 4:3 commercials here and there, that is.

All of the primary content (some commercials and stuff notwithstanding) is in high-definition, hence the "HD" in the name.