'Legend of the Seeker' - First run syndication in HD - Page 3

My Windows Media Center shows it in HD also, I wish they would show it in Letterbox, the quality of the HD stations are pretty good and the zoom on the TV would actually be an acceptable picture, but it's blah 4:3 on both my locals HD stations showing it here.

This is what people should do if their local station is not providing a syndicated series in HD that we know is now available in HD. The syndicated 4th season run of Stargate: Atlantis is now available in HD for example. WNUV-DT 54 in Baltimore recently starting showing SG:A in HD, although it is at the DVR or insomniac time of 2 AM on Sunday night.

If your local station is not showing the syndicated Seeker, SG:A, Lost, Desperate Housewives, etc in HD, at a minimum, email them and complain. They may not act right away, but enough complaints over time can filter up to management and can push the ones that can afford it to budget for and buy the equipment needed. Squeaky wheel gets the grease, etc.

Here in Gainesville both the CW (Smallville) and MNT (Seeker) channels are low bit rate 480i sub-channels of other stations. There is totally no hope for them.

Theoretically I suppose a station could be a sub-channel OTA but still negotiate to send a full bit rate HD show to local cable. But I don't know of it ever happening.

- Tom

While not exactly this case, here in Albany the MyNetwork TV station has no digital assignment(analog only until the transition). However, they do have a HD feed via Time Warner cable, so something similar has happened.

It looked like in episode 2 when they showed Darken Rahl in his chamber talking to that older captain that in the background it was a Mord Sith. It at least looked like red leather. It was pretty brief though.

In the making of special they aired they showed the Mord Sith leather outfits. Nice.

I also saw that scene and thought "Mord Sith!!", but it was too fleeting a shot to be certain.

I've watched the first 2 episodes, which only loosely conform to the books. Obviously, a tv show has to deviate somewhat from the books but I am surprised as to the extent of divergence. So far, I'd give the show a B-/C+.

You're right, these writers stink. That episode last night was terrible. Richard the WOODSGUIDE is now a bumbling dolt that walks into snares and traps and can't even catch a rabbit.

And the preview for next week looked just as bad. I think they've already lost me on this series, I can't take the pain of watching them mangle what should have been a great series.

If they didn't want to tell the Sword or Truth tale, why did they bother to pay for the book rights?

It goes back to the some basics. One of the key reasons the books were, at least for the most part, good is that Richard was a solid character even though he was residing in a retread world. The things that made him a good character are %100 lacking from this show. TV Richard has little, if any, of the character outlines of book Richard.

Heck even physically they couldn't start more wrong. Book Richard is a tall strong person who eventually becomes imposingly so. TV Richard is like 5'8". They have to use camera angles to keep Khalan from dwarfing him. He's also supposed to be competent, composed and methodical...stubbornly so. Instead he's a whiney, frantic, bumbling box of hormones on the TV show. And, not a very well acted one at that.

The only time I've seen worse casting is the dude they got to play Paul on the SciFi channel version of Dune.

Wow, I know some of you hate this show, but the last two episodes have been fantastic. Sure they are not following the books exactly but I am really enjoying this show. I loved when Khalan came up on the platform to stand by Richard. I actually thought it was very moving and cool. Completely enjoying the direction they have taken this show.

Was this evening's showing on WGN America HD in SD for anyone other than Dish customers? It somehow had 5.1 sound though.

Dunno about WGN, but it wasn't HD in my area either (Sacramento).

The really strange thing for WGN America here was that the rerun preceding the new episode was in HD. I have noticed that the previous HD showings have no bugs or snipes. Maybe they wanted to sneak some promos in.

WGNA-HD was in SD after the episode last night too, but since I never watch anything else on that channel I don't know how many actual HD programs they carry.

The strange part was, it wasn't even good upconverted SD on Dish. There were massive compression artifacts. It wasn't like, for example, SciFi HD, where the SD programming always benefits from the higher bitrate. The only thing to indicate I was watching an HD channel was that I was getting Dolby sound instead of PCM.

It was in SD on both WGN America HD and the local Fox station carrying it. Perhaps, it was a holiday staffing SNAFU. It was a good episode, though.

The linear HD satellite feed did occur on schedule.

SD This week and last week on KASW

Makes sense, as the repeats are not the same feed from the previous week -- the show is sent again, with different barter spots. So each week, stations have to take two feeds of this show: The new episode, plus the repeat of the previous episode.

I wish D* would pick up WGN-HD, I've got two locals that carry Seeker, but neither show it in HD,

This must be an incredibly boring show for most people, since it seems the majority of the posts are only concerned with which channels are broadcasting it in SD or HD.

If that was the case people wouldn't watch rather than complain about the lack of HD.

It's a decent escapist show, but nothing to write home about. I think it will run out of steam (if it still has any) by the end of the season if they just go from town to town solving problems. It's not going to have the longevity of Xena, IOW.

Did the WGNA-HD airing have monster grain for everybody, or was it just on Dish? I haven't seen grain like that since Torchwood on HDNet, except I think this was a lot worse.

^^^ I noticed that the first two episodes had tons of grain in the day-for-night scenes.

Same goes for the Tivo guide which has KTVU's midnight showing listed as HD. I hope someone here will announce when they go HD. Until then I think I'll save HDD space and record off the standard def feed.

titantv.com has the same issue. The local station that airs Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune do not air them in HD, but the listing has them marked as being in HD.

I thought this episode was one of the better ones. All in all it was really flowing well.

I pinged KTVU. They stated that they don't have HD recording equipment and can only broadcast live feeds. No dates on the arrival of the necessary recording equipment, but some mention of "early next year."

jdg

Has anyone else noticed a discrepency between what the guide calls the episode and what the actual episode is? For instance, on CW11 here in St. Louis, I watched the episode "Brennidon" but the guide says it's "Listener", and following that the next episode I watched was clearly "Listener" (based on the description that accompanied the episode that was actually "Brennidon"), however it was listed in the guide as "Elixir".

If that makes any sense, what gives? Did they skip an episode? Since the last episode the DVR recorded while I was out of town was list as "Identity" (which I suspect is actually "Elixir"), does that mean the actual episode "Identity" was never even broadcast on CW11? If so, they're not doing much to help the chances of an already mediocre show.