Is everyone getting terrible interlacing tonight on "Remember the Titans"?

Yes.

Is everyone getting terrible interlacing tonight on "Remember the Titans"?

It was horrible, plus it seems that TNT didn't want to splurge for all the music from the original film and had some horrible inserts.

The Ron Clark Story is HD, not stretched.

The John Q that is on right now looks stretched to me, even though it's listed in the HD list on the first page.

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I've only had TNT HD for a week... Adelphia just switched to Comcast and this was one of the swapped HD channels.

So tonight Swordfish was on. Cool... I've been having fun comparing HD cable to HD-DVD.

I noticed the F words were replaced with "don't fool with me", etc. No big deal. But this classic scene surprised me...

If you look close, there are no bikini straps. If you saw this movie in the theater, on DVD, or on HD DVD, you probably remember this scene...

But a split second later... where did TNT find Halle's bikini top?! :eek:

It doesn't surprise me that TNT edited out the nudity. I'm just surprised that they didn't just clip out the scene completely... they actually had a wardrobe reshoot. I guess it makes sense in order to show a film on an airplane or on network television.

Aside from the 16x9 crop and the horrid stretch-o-vision, does TNT always edit out the F-word and nudity?

Always? Surprisingly no. There was a very strange broadcast a few months back of the Matrix Reloaded where *some* language was edited out and other language wasn't. It was very bizarre.

At the time, I wish that I would have checked the TNT SD channel to see what the differences were. I can only assume that some of the words (and the scene where Neo gives the finger) were simply missed, as "sh*" was overdubbed *sometimes* but not everytime.

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The Alamo is stretched . Love those fat faces on the side of the screen. Thanks TNT & Direct TV for junking up the limited HD spectrum.

The original post has been neglected as of late. It needs to be updated given the input we've received over the past couple of months. Otherwise, we're going to keep getting the same posts over and over.

For example, the original Under Siege is HD.

Good Will Hunting looked awful and was definitely NOT in HD and it was streched

This is a long thread, which I have not searched very thoroughly, so if what follows has been asked and answered, accept my apologies in advance, but please bear with me.

The audio and video of every movie I have recorded from TNT HD recently has been terribly out of sync. In order to confirm this visually, I turned on closed captions and they were so out of sync, they were unusable. That’s too bad, too. Today I have been watching “Pale Rider,” which I recorded on Saturday; it looks very good but the sound is so out of sync, it might as well have been dubbed from another language.

Does anyone (1) know what is causing this annoying problem and (2) have an idea about what might be done to cure it? Thanks in advance for any advice.

MI: 2 Is in HD and OAR. Both showings tonight are. Its on Sunday also.

It has black bars on top and bottom and it doesn't look stretched. I have flipped to it a couple times tonight but haven't stayed to watch it because I haven't seen the first one yet. I don't remember if its a premiere or not its not on the list. Hopefully there going to do this more often.

that would be a welcome change for TNT to go from all stretch all the time, to OAR/HD

It doesn't surprise me that TNT edited out the nudity. I'm just surprised that they didn't just clip out the scene completely... they actually had a wardrobe reshoot. I guess it makes sense in order to show a film on an airplane or on network television.

Aside from the 16x9 crop and the horrid stretch-o-vision, does TNT always edit out the F-word and nudity?This classic scene from "The Fifth Element" was creatively edited...

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/2498/fifthelementtntkn5.jpg

Last night, Paycheck (with Ben Affleck) was hopefully stretched because it looked pretty bad at times.

I'm sorry but why you guys still watching TNT HD for movies? Is there a redeeming value that I haven't noticed yet?

Anyone see Mission Impossible II on Sunday? Horrible interlacing, especially during the motorcycle scene at the end of the movie. :(

Paycheck was in HD (maybe an unstretched upconvert?) but there was horrible artifacting. fast motion and camera changes caused a ton of red pixelization here in Philly on Comcast.

Well I finally emailed TNT about the problems. I also tried to post on there message board but it was having issues. I doubt anything will come of this but it couldn't hurt trying. I would suggest that all of you do the same.

I attempted three times to watch "Deep Impact" in HD and all three attempt were stretch. The people at TNT just don't get it.

well, just when you think you have TNT figured out, they change it up again. Both Kill Bill movies were in HD tonight. There was a slight audio lag on the second one but otherwise, very good.

Saw parts pf Kill Bill Vol 2 and it looked very good. luckily, I was able to record it as I will be able to check it out the rest of the week.

Saw final 30 mins of Vol. 1 and the first ~30 mins. of Vol. 2. The picture looked really great, almost as good as hd-dvd (I don't have a BR player). The sound was great too.

I don't if was the black and white at the beginning of Vol. 2 but it seemed to look better than Vol. 1.

The only bad thing was the audio lag on Vol. 2, once I noticed it I couldn't stop watching the lips of the actors. :(

Is "Kill Bill" on TNT worth watching if TNT edits for time and content?

KB 1&2 are two of my all-time Top 20 movies. I'm out of town this week, but I set the DVR to record these because my 11-year-old son has been begging to see them since he knows I like them.

The TNT censored edits will certainly have higher WAF.

Volume 1 from Starz-HD cropped to 16:9...
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7756/kb11mi.th.jpg (http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7756/kb11mi.jpg)

2.35 on DVD:
http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/8826/kb1dvd1qq.th.jpg (http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/8826/kb1dvd1qq.jpg)

Vol 2 on Star-HD:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5052/kb20048cn.th.jpg (http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5052/kb20048cn.jpg)

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5669/kb20052nd.th.jpg (http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5669/kb20052nd.jpg)

TNT showed Vol 1 in OAR, right?

When I get home I'll post some comparison frames of TNT's PQ.

Is "Kill Bill" on TNT worth watching if TNT edits for time and content?


Vol. 1 is heavily edited...."Buck likes to Party" and the "PartyWagon" as examples.

Vol.2 not much editing, but the audio lag was very noticable.


Both shown in 16:9.

Dang... I was hoping they'd be in OAR 2.35 like MI2.

"Party Wagon" was an incredible edit. I'm amazed at how much trouble TNT goes through for their censors. I guess it's better than cutting the "offending" scenes entirely, though.

2.35 on DVD:
http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/8826/kb1dvd1qq.th.jpg (http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/8826/kb1dvd1qq.jpg)

KB1 on Starz-HD cropped to 16:9...
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7756/kb11mi.th.jpg (http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7756/kb11mi.jpg)

KB1 on TNT-HD, also cropped to 16:9...
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/4156/kb1tntyq6.th.jpg (http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/4156/kb1tntyq6.jpg)

Philadelphia was in HD.

Underworld is in HD tonight. Looks good, it's not OAR, but it's not stretched.

Is TNT about to get it together? I don't watch it much, but lately every time I've been by, the movies haven't been stretched and I haven't noticed any lip-sync problems. Of course I haven't been watching the station much, so I may have just just lucked out on my timing.

Watching Deep Blue Sea right now. Looks very good so I'm guessing that it is HD and not streched.

Edit: Oppsss.. just noticed that Deep Blue Sea is already on your confirmed HD list.

they are definitely doing something different, they have 'upgraded' a lot of their old prints of SD films to HD. who knows, someday we will be able to get rid of the 'confirmed movies not in hd' section of the list.

they are definitely doing something different, they have 'upgraded' a lot of their old prints of SD films to HD. who knows, someday we will be able to get rid of the 'confirmed movies not in hd' section of the list.
So far today, Both Anaconda movies were in HD, as was 'Deep Blue Sea", but it was listed as HD already.

The upcoming movie, "Cradle 2 the Grave", will be interesting, it's listed on the stretched list.

Even if they do upgrade their stretched titles to HD I don't even care anymore. What with the edits, pop-ups, commercials, etc, etc. I have better things to watch. I haven't turned them on in months.

So far today, Both Anaconda movies were in HD, as was 'Deep Blue Sea", but it was listed as HD already.

The upcoming movie, "Cradle 2 the Grave", will be interesting, it's listed on the stretched list.

Cradle 2 is in HD, maybe they have actually been listening.

There are some decent original shows on TNT, I'm looking forward to the new season of "The Closer" and the two new series, "Heartland" and "Saving Grace" ...

yeah, and TNT does a fabulous job with the NBA. I dont really mind the commercials/edits. sometimes i flip to that channel just to see some classic movie, nice to see that they're taking the HD thing seriously now.

Eight Legged Freaks was also in HD this morning at 6. Exit Wounds is also in HD.

It looks like at least 19 straight hours of HD, I don't know if Dead Presidents and Double Team is in HD and doubt X-files will be, but we are getting closer to 24 hours of HD. I would be happy if they just didn't stretch the non HD movies and shows.

Walking Tall is HD, looks like a clean sweep on HD for the day, this is encouraging. Haven't noticed any lip-sync problems today.

Yeah, they do seem to be getting better at least with the movies it seems. Still wish they would get rid of Stretch-O-Vision and just use pillars or wings for their non HD programming.

Walking Tall is HD, looks like a clean sweep on HD for the day, this is encouraging. Haven't noticed any lip-sync problems today.

I may have spoke too soon, there does seem to be a slight lip-sync problem in Walking Tall, it's almost like it slips in and out of sync.

The entire intro to Chronicles of Riddick was in a squished box, while entire ending credits of Riddick played on the right side.

I can take 10 seconds of the squeeze credits, but man it must have been like 3 or 4 minutes. Riddick has running dialog in the opening scene so it was completely unwatchable to me.

Dead Presidents was stretched :(
Dracula 2000 was stretched :(

> nice to see that they're taking the HD thing seriously now. <

Wow, you guys are easily satisfied. :eek: A handful of films in HD, and all their sins are forgiven. :rolleyes:

Just an as FYI, in addition to the films Rebkill listed, some other recent STRETCHED airings were:
- Summerschool
- American Beauty
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story
- Reign of Fire
and a couple others I didn't bother to make note of.

TNT still sucks big-time, and their latest atrocity is the dual-squeezed credits/intro that kaydigi mentioned. You get a shrunken 50% wide/high pane on the left running scrolling end credits, while the same-size mini-pane on the right is actually running the beginning of a film... for several minutes! Totally freaking unbelievable.

Hey, I've got a great idea for TNT! Run 2 movies like that all the time, with the L channel having mono audio for one film, and R the other. Then they can show twice as many commercials in the same amount of time (since their current 40% obviously isn't enough).

There's apparently no limit to how low these slimebags will go. :mad:

- Tim

American Beauty stretched? I cought bits and pieces of TNT's airings of AB a week or so ago and they were all in HD (but not OAR).

.....TNT still sucks big-time, and their latest atrocity is the dual-squeezed credits/intro that kaydigi mentioned. You get a shrunken 50% wide/high pane on the left running scrolling end credits, while the same-size mini-pane on the right is actually running the beginning of a film... for several minutes! Totally freaking unbelievable.

There's apparently no limit to how low these slimebags will go. :mad:
- Tim
They did that for the first few minutes of "Underworld" over the weekend too :mad: :mad: :mad:
WTF is wrong with the people over at TNT-HD? If you care so little about unimportant things like OAR, five minute commercial interruptions, hideous on screen pop-ups during the feature, and now dual-squeezed credits/intro, etc... then why bother at all? Just close down the damn channel and be done with it.
It's just disgusting the way they butcher these movies over at TNT-HD!

Watching Somethings Gotta Give now. Looks HD to me. Anyone else watching this?

Watching Somethings Gotta Give now. Looks HD to me. Anyone else watching this?

I'm not watching, but I did take a look and it's HD.

Jim's Arcade:
> American Beauty stretched? I cought bits and pieces of TNT's airings of AB a week or so ago and they were all in HD <

The airing I caught was absolutely, positively stretched. That doesn't, however, mean that all airings were.

- Tim

Grumpier Old Men- Stretched

The School of Rock-HD

I agree, School of Rock was in HD.

A Knight's Tale was not cropped HD, but it did not look good at all... quite the contrast from School of Rock before it.

Was anyone else watching Eddie tonight (5/5 4am) and notice that it was annoyingly out of sync?

I think Blue Streak that was on before it was stretched, but it was in sync.

gladiator looks incredible best i have ever seen on tnt

gladiator looks incredible best i have ever seen on tnt

haha everytime i try to watch it, its stretched lol

Well Heartland was almost a complete and total waste. It contained the now usually TNT intrusive ads that totally ruined moments of the show. It also seems that TNT thinks I have no idea what show I am watching and thus must tell me by having the name onscreen for 90% of the program.

To receive TNT HD don't you need a HD Set Top Box? And with that being the case why have this **** on screen? If I am curious what program is airing or what channel I am watching all I have to do is click a button. It seems TNT is throwing as much crap on screen as possible to get people to buy the DVD box sets of these shows. Either that or TNT is run by chimps. Guess whoever is running things just likes to throw crap one way or another.

Caught the last 1/2 hour twice in a row of Deep Impact recently. God, what a mess! I thought my eyes were going to start bleeding from how blurry it was. That was almost beyond stretched.

Caught the last 1/2 hour twice in a row of Deep Impact recently. God, what a mess! I thought my eyes were going to start bleeding from how blurry it was. That was almost beyond stretched.
I saw Deep Impact on "TNT-HD" a few months back and the badly distorted picture actually started giving me some sort of optical related headache. In contrast- "The Last Castle" was on Sunday night and the PQ was quite excellent. TNT-HD has to be the most frustrating HD channel in existence! :mad:

updated.

I noticed this thread and wondered why so many non-HD movies that clearly have a HD version around. Of the list, Australia has played the following in HD that you list as SD only.

The Bodyguard
Ella Enchanted
Encino Man
Erin Brockovich
First Knight
General's Daughter, The (OAR)
Ghostbusters
Gone in 60 Seconds
Net, The
Passenger 57
Pretty Woman
Reindeer Games
Shanghai Noon
Signs (Not 100% sure on that)
Turner & Hooch
Unfaithful

That is a LOT of movies that we have had in HD that you haven't. A few of them were shown for the first time in high definition such as Pretty Woman just this week. Also, unlike the stretch that you get, all not-HD is presented in 16:9 if filmed in this format.

Edit: In the unconfirmed section we also had:

A Few Good Men
Mask of Zorro, The
Pelican Brief, The
Specialist, The

That is 16 or 20 movies that TNT clearly have access to but aren't showing for one reason or another.Are you saying that TNT-HD in Australia shows these movies in HD???:confused:

If not it's irrelevent and doesn't belong in this thead as we are only discussing movies that are True HD that have shown up on TNT-HD.

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid was in HD.

Blade:Trinity was in HD.

They did that for the first few minutes of "Underworld" over the weekend too :mad: :mad: :mad:
WTF is wrong with the people over at TNT-HD? If you care so little about unimportant things like OAR, five minute commercial interruptions, hideous on screen pop-ups during the feature, and now dual-squeezed credits/intro, etc... then why bother at all? Just close down the damn channel and be done with it.
It's just disgusting the way they butcher these movies over at TNT-HD!

I care more about TNT's inability to get the damn audio right. Seriously, does anyone responsible for their HD programming NOT notice that's it's regularly out of sync? No other HD stations that I have experience that annoying-as-hell problem.

Open Range was in HD. Great movie and it looked great too.

Open Range was in HD. Great movie and it looked great too.
I watched Open Range the first time it came around and yes, it does look great, doesn't it?

Hard rain was not in HD.

You guys watch TNT still for HD movies?

Are you guys into S&M?

What Women Want was in HD.

Men in Black II is in HD.

Men in Black II is looking really good!

I just saw that Jurassic Park (original) will be on this Sunday... I don't normally watch TNT-HD... What are the odds that it's in HD? Anyway to find out? Their website didn't tell me anything.

Cheers.

I just saw that Jurassic Park (original) will be on this Sunday... I don't normally watch TNT-HD... What are the odds that it's in HD? Anyway to find out? Their website didn't tell me anything.

Cheers.

AFAIK there is no way to tell in advance if they are going to show HD or crap. In the event, Jurassic Park last weekend was crap - a stretch of a low-res version.

Is it just me or the pq on TNT-HD look like crap

Is it just me or the pq on TNT-HD look like crap
It does, here is another reason why i stopped watching TNT, (besides not knowing if the film is going to be in HD or not).

http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vlcsnap14919zg0.png

edit: hmn, can't get the thumbnails to work oh well

Yea they butchered Oz no doubt but it's all we have.

Art

Yea they butchered Oz no doubt but it's all we have.

Art

I heard that it aired on WB a few years back and some people were lucky to archive it. Full bitrate clean transfer and airing.

since shrek isn't on the list....here is my opionion.


saw shrek the other night on tnt hd...looks better than dvd...but nbc hd air shrek during thanksgiving and if my memory serve me correctly, the nbc hd ones looks sharper than tnt hd.

so i think shrek on tnt hd is upconverted.

TNT should be ashamed of them selfs for the up converted so called HD that they broadcast. I'd rather see it in 4:3 480p with black bars on the sides. That stretched out fuzzy Dolby pro-logic two audio crap they show sometimes should be against the law being called HD.

Oh I apologies for my intro. Hello everyone have been a fan for years and decided to start to contribute with all of my AV brothers. Thanks for having me. This is truly the greatest AVforum hands down.

Oh finnally good movies on hd!

Just saw antz today for like 5 min. It looks no better than dvd quality so stop watching it.

How can you tell if a movie is 'real' HD vs upconverted SD or whatever else it might be, even though it's called "HD"?

Also on TNT and TBS I notice a jerkiness or stutter of the image. It is especially noticeable on my Samsung 71, but I also see it on plain SD in exactly the same places.

Has this issue been discussed here?

Hey guys I'm new to paid television and I've been noticing some things about TNT HD. I have seen some movies like A Few Good Men that looked absolutely horrid being stretched SD. I've seen real HD movies like Kill Bill 2 that look and sound amazing. What is really stumping me is that I just saw Ghostbusters that I already own on SD DVD, but the picture is dramatically different from the TNT version. The TNT version looks much better in color and has no moving graininess that the DVD version has. It is very clean looking. My question is how is this possible? Ghostbusters does not have a HD counterpart. How do that make the movie look so much better than the DVD release? My player upconverts to 1080i while it looks better than 480p, it can't touch TNT HD.

Dumb and Dumber looked like it was in HD last night. But I was going by TNTHD on my SDTV. But it looked squished in 4:3 mode.

I'm watching Twister, which is in HD. I'm usually not one to complain about movies being cropped to fill the 16:9 frame, but damn, I feel like the camera is hitting everyone in the nose it's framed so tightly.