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ITV HD - Movies
I see ITV are planning to up their HD film content which includes the showing of all the "Star Wars" movies.
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Don't know what wnet wrong here, but will repeat. ITV intent on upping their HD film contnet to include running all the "Star Wars" movie series in HD.
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err, ok maybe i'm missing something obvious here, but my the hdr epg doesn't show todays episode as being in hd, so can't set it to record.
The news in the middle is showing as hd though????? |
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No problem on my EPG - just checked and was able to set both parts to record in HD using the "record whole series" option.
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err, ok maybe i'm missing something obvious here, but my the hdr epg doesn't show todays episode as being in hd, so can't set it to record.
The news in the middle is showing as hd though????? |
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Well it looks like ITV have cracked the HD/Split event issues, apart from the abrupt end to part 1 with the HD Unavailable screen flashing up, and the second part starting to record 2 minutes of the Unavailable screen prior to the second half starting, all is looking well..
Well done ITV. |
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Shame the overall pituere quailty isn't much better then the DVD.
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I looked at it to see what it was like and I thought the picture quality looked pretty poor. I was standing only a few feet away but it looked fuzzy to me.
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Shame the overall pituere quailty isn't much better then the DVD.
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and the second part starting to record 2 minutes of the Unavailable screen prior to the second half starting, all is looking well..
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To me the cgi looked HD and the actors SD. A weird combination I don't think the director would have wanted!
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I would have said that an upscaling DVD player would have produced far better results (and in the correct aspect ratio!)
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Flicking about, the Freeview pic was pretty poor, the freesat sd was ok and the HD was little better. Glad I didn't sit down to watch it. As an aside: Is it worth asking ITV to show in OAR? and with 5.1?
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I did try the ITV HD v. Upscaled DVD experiment.
One problem with this comparison is that the ITV HD broadcast was 16:9 and the DVD is widescreen with black bars top and bottom. This makes it hard to do a direct comparison. Initially I thought the DVD quality was much better, but when I used the DVD zoom to remove the black bars, it was apparent that the ITV HD picture was actually a bit better. However, the surround sound on the DVD and lack of advertisement breaks meant we quickly switched onto the DVD to enjoy the film. One thing to note; Episode I/II have been shown before on ITV HD, and the quality of episode II is much better than episode I |
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Initially I thought the DVD quality was much better, but when I used the DVD zoom to remove the black bars, it was apparent that the ITV HD picture was actually a bit better.
However, the surround sound on the DVD and lack of advertisement breaks meant we quickly switched onto the DVD to enjoy the film. |
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