Yay, TCM and IFC HD now availible
12-02-09 | 08:25 AM
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Re: Yay, TCM and IFC HD now availible
12-02-09 | 04:56 PM
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Re: Yay, TCM and IFC HD now availible
It's coming.
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...The new satellite will increase DIRECTV's high-definition (HD) capacity by 50 percent, and when combined with the DIRECTV 10 and 11 satellites that launched in 2007 and 2008, will enable DIRECTV to deliver 200 national and 1,500 local HDTV channels to millions of U.S. households.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Dec. 1, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced today that DIRECTV 12 was shipped Nov. 25 from Boeing's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch facility in Kazakhstan. Upon arrival, the satellite will undergo final preparations for a December launch aboard an International Launch Services Proton/Breeze M rocket.
...The new satellite will increase DIRECTV's high-definition (HD) capacity by 50 percent, and when combined with the DIRECTV 10 and 11 satellites that launched in 2007 and 2008, will enable DIRECTV to deliver 200 national and 1,500 local HDTV channels to millions of U.S. households.
12-04-09 | 09:38 PM
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Re: Yay, TCM and IFC HD now availible
It seems like IFC does air some movies in full HD, as they are airing Capote in its OAR not stretched.
Also realized i also get now Encore HD, and we're at the Salma Hyack dance with the snake scene in From Dusk Till Dawn
Also realized i also get now Encore HD, and we're at the Salma Hyack dance with the snake scene in From Dusk Till Dawn
12-04-09 | 10:13 PM
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Re: Yay, TCM and IFC HD now availible
I don't know how this is even accomplished, do the studios do both a full OAR of a film in hidef AND a cropped hidef edition too - man! what a waste of time and money.
12-04-09 | 10:19 PM
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Re: Yay, TCM and IFC HD now availible
yeah, almost all movies that air on HBO and Cinemax are aired in a cropped 16x9 format even if its shot in 2:35;1.
12-04-09 | 11:12 PM
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Re: Yay, TCM and IFC HD now availible
What gets me about it is that sometimes they will have a movie on, which is OOP or never been released like The Island(80) and it's cropped. With that film in particular, they show the titles/intro in 2.35:1 but then crop the rest.
12-04-09 | 11:23 PM
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Re: Yay, TCM and IFC HD now availible
if i had to take a guess, its because if they weren't full 2:35, some of the credits would be cut off at the edges, and we know that can't happen, so once all of that is done, they can then crop it to 1:78;1.
