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ITV1 HD & STV HD nighttime movies thread
Starting this thread to pre warn people about any decent (usually older) HD films that get hidden away in the early hours, i.e. in the past, Psycho, Anne of the Thousand Days, Missouri Breaks. The Appaloosa (starring Marlon Brando) which was on last night on STV HD, although not OAR, was a very sharp transfer, screenshots:
Brando one, two, three, four , five , six
Anjanette Comer one, two, three
John Saxon one, two
Emilio Fernández one, two
Rafael Campos?
Two unknown bandits
Landscape/horses one, two , three, four , five
Close ups- silver cross, silver buckle, dirt
Brando one, two, three, four , five , six
Anjanette Comer one, two, three
John Saxon one, two
Emilio Fernández one, two
Rafael Campos?
Two unknown bandits
Landscape/horses one, two , three, four , five
Close ups- silver cross, silver buckle, dirt
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Travolta, Travolta & Thurman, Thurman, Dwayne Johnson, Vince Vaughn 1 & 2, Harvey Keitel 1 & 2.
Your grabs do remind me though that STV is much less bad, and is probably acceptable on a commercial station. (Again, just speaking personally.) If there were more OAR screenings, or at least a place where we can find out reliably what the AR is in advance, I'd be more inclined to pay attention.
The STV DOG is definitely much less off putting than the ITV1 DOG, I think there is hope for more OAR as ITV2&4 HD seem to have got hold of new prints recently for the HD launch which will hopefully filter through to ITV1 HD.
Can you record in non freesat mode- as I understand it with the Humax the protection is removed then?
Funny you should say that but I was going to try that a little earlier but it was recording. I will try once it has stopped.
I'm away from home at the moment so can't confirm it but if my memory serves me well,I am sure I tried recording in non Freesat mode in the past and it worked.
Well, I don't want to hijack the thread, but I'd rather see what the director intended. Mouseover toggles between the two images:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5159779/two_shot.htm
And the bottom line on this issue for me is that if you don't like the black bars, the vast majority of TVs these days have a zoom function which allows you to get rid of them (obviously at the cost of losing picture information). So, showing 2.35 films at OAR allows everyone to see them as they want, but 16:9 cutouts don't. Therefore OAR is the best solution IMO.
But as I say, I don't want to hijack the thread, so there are probably better places to continue this if anyone wants to.
Welcome to the future. No wonder that when the BBC was explaining the 'advantages' of putting DRM on the EPG and all that it would thus 'allow', the first thing they usually said was that it only applied to HD--as if that won't be a major reception method as time goes by.
ITV don't *have* to do this. It's in the spec to allow blu ray recordings, but they obviously have decided to lock them out. The viewer has no recourse.
I can understand why the BBC were a bit twitchy about justifying DRM.
I have set it up to record the film 'The Cowboy Way' this morning. The problem is if it gives the flag 'once only' I won't really won't know untill I have made a few recordings of films & they also have a once only flag. Having said that if I were to record say 4 hours of ITV HD with an hour or so before & after it would probably not know I was recording the film & of course I would just edit out everything apart from the film.:D
As it was the first time I tried the 'other channels' to record I gave a 10 minute before & after & named the programme. But it was flagged, so I can't take even one copy of a DOG filled, advert filled & probably cut to pieces OLD film. this really is silly. I will try a couple of hours ether side next time.& NOT name the programme.
Back on to the thread. I think it is a really good idea & as more people take up PVRs & the thingy :rolleyes: I have, it should gain more interest. You could also put BBC films that are later in the evening as well.
Thanks for the encouragement:), re: BBC unfortunately none of the BBC One films have been in HD yet, I did notice yesterday BBC HD simulcasted a BBC THREE film, which I think they do about once a week now so I will mention these when they come up EDIT: starting now:D (also looks like more than one a week now:o):
Bruce Almighty (2003) starring Jim Carrey & Jennifer Aniston is on BBC HD, Saturday 19:25 - 21:00 (BBC THREE simulcast)
premiere of Macbeth (2010) starring Patrick Stewart & Kate Fleetwood is on BBC HD Sunday 19:30 - 22:00 (BBC FOUR simulcast) (Patrick was on Midweek on R4 yesterday discussing this, listen here).
Picture was pretty good on Falling Down last night although not OAR:
Robert Duvall one, two, three
Michael Douglas one, two, three, four
Street scene one, two, exhaust, police motorcyclist
BBC One HD is showing Severance (2006) starring Toby Stephens & Danny Dyer tonight from 23:30 - 01:00.
ITV1 HD is showing Mad Max Beyond: Thunderdome (1985) starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner tonight from 23:05 - 01:00 and On Deadly Ground (1994) starring Steven Seagal and Michael Caine 03:05 - 04:45.
I have a Panasonic Freeview BD recorder, I recorded Briget Jones and Species The Awakening last weekend and successfully transferred them (high speed) to BD disc in HD mode after converting from DR to HG. They both had (as all ITV/C4 programmes do) the copy once flag on them. Maybe it allowed me to do it because it's freeview??
When you convert a programme to HG mode what size is it?
BBC HD programmes are about 5600MB for a 58/59 minute show on Freeview. This allows me to get 4 hours on a 25GB BD disc, if the Freesat version is higher quality (bigger size) that might be the reason why you can't copy?
Good films but I already have them so did'nt record them. All bar one film I have tried on ITV had a 'No Copy' flag. In other words they could only be copied in SD. Even a John Candy film could not be coppied in HD.
STV HD is showing Species: The Awakening (2007) starring Helena Mattsson and Ben Cross (shown on ITV1 HD last week) from 00:10 - 02:00
BBC HD is showing Sylvia (2003) starring Gwyneth Paltrow as the American poet Sylvia Plath with Daniel Craig as her husband & fellow poet Ted Hughes from 23:30 - 01:15
ITV1 HD is showing The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) starring Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott from 22:35 - 00:35.
STV HD is showing Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005) from 22:35 - 00:05.