Fabulous show! Great mix of older and newer footage.

Looks like the old footage was cleaned up and it is seamed flawlessly with the HD footage.

Great content, lousy execution on our area. The local PBS station, KUED Salt Lake City, has three channels they broadcast. The special was a macroblocked mess with a lot of blurring and other artifacts. We tuned in and tuned out again after only 20 minutes. This isn't what I spent $7000 on a DLP projector and three LCD HDTV's of various sizes to have to tolerate.

Some station, somewhere, some time is going to become the "quality" HDTV station over "quantity" (marketing-wise) and they sure as hell will end up getting our family's eyeballs all the time.

...The special was a macroblocked mess with a lot of blurring and other artifacts. We tuned in and tuned out again after only 20 minutes..That’s a shame because I know how good it looked and sounded here on TWCNYC.

The problems you described—are they regular glitches with your PBS or was it just happening for this show? It’s scheduled for rebroadcast, perhaps it might look better?

I am talking over the air reception, you are talking cable right?

The 19 mbs feed is split over 3 PBS channels from the same University of Utah PBS station here in Utah. The other PBS station KBYU, is spread even thinner with 5 (count'em five) HDTV channels.

Local PBS has the best content most of the time, programs we really want to watch, but they usually don't have a very good HDTV picture.

No where to turn, what with HDTV-"lite" on the satellite systems and I refuse to suffer under the local cable company's "COMCAST attitude" again. COMCAST actually came out for an installation a few months ago and I had to send the guy away and cancel because of his BS, take it or leave it attitude.

...spread even thinner with 5 (count'em five) HDTV channels.

...COMCAST actually came out for an installation a few months ago and I had to send the guy away and cancel because of his BS, take it or leave it attitude.Yes, I was referring to cable.

That is a horrendous OTA HD situation you’re describing.

Regarding HD lite and the satellites, aren’t they coming out with improvements in the immediate future, providing more programming and better PQ? Also, with Comcast, I’d wouldn’t stand for a tech in my house with an attitude problem either. I’d reschedule. Life is too short to not get the best HD I can get—however way that might be. Good luck.

I noticed blurring on some of the interview segments also. Glad to see it is not my new 52XBR4 at fault. Watching Comcast in Denver. Glad to see someone is watching. Tony, Frank, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly....there is no talent that will ever match that today. A time gone by.

Fabulous show! Great mix of older and newer footage.

Looks like the old footage was cleaned up and it is seamed flawlessly with the HD footage.

I'm a big Tony Bennett fan, so I enjoyed this program. Although all of the old TV clips kept this from being "HD demo" material, I appreciated seeing several old movie clips in what looked like 1080i.

I'd like to have seen more songs uninterrupted from start to finish. Also, for those who stayed through the credits, the closing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" was preempted for the lame PBS advertisement we've all seen a thousand times.

...I appreciated seeing several old movie clips in what looked like 1080i.Yes, I especially enjoyed the clips from High Society.
I'd like to have seen more songs uninterrupted from start to finish.I agree they were teasing us with the clips. As one example, I wish they would have stayed with the Ed Sullivan performance, at least a little longer, before dissolving into his “seasoned” version.


...for those who stayed through the credits, the closing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" was preempted for the lame PBS advertisement we've all seen a thousand times.That was the most absurd ending I’ve seen in a long time. The split screen with the promo on the one side and the “Evelyn Wood” credit roll flying by on the other side was not cool. I had to stop it on my DVR and do the slow mode just to be able to glance at them.