Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in HDTV! - Page 49

Hello, I met a comparitif:

Grab BD de African Queen :



http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare/african.htm

Screen TVHD :

"It" would?

Are you saying Swannie is a Bot?

That actually explains quite a bit...

I prefer the TCM version over the BD.

Actually, I think the BD has more natural looking colors, the TCM-HD version looks as if the colors and brightness were boosted a bit too much.

Oh, I can't wait for TCM's explanation.

I agree, keenan, but I would turn down the color and, perhaps, the contrast just a little and end up with a better picture than the BD.

Do you think that is the case, Urga?

I have not heard back from Mr. Swann after his initial reply. Either he is making a call or two or he took offense in some way to something I said. You know how people can be on the internet ............. all uptight. I suspect he will be getting back to us. He sure answered my initial inquiry quickly.

Urga, is the "BD grab" also optical from your Kuro or was it a computer grab?
While I also prefer the TCM version(for color and contrast) the BD looks more natural.

He found that on dvdbeaver.com. It's a screen grab not an optical picture. The 1080p image can be found here: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe..._blu-ray3x.jpg

However, its a jpeg, which is lossy. I see much more detail than on the picture of TCM.fr. It looks like Urga's TV is on "vivid" mode which I absolutely detest. Blown out contrast reduces fine detail and make everything look fake. But it could be his camera, hard to tell.

If you get too cute, Ken, I may have to remove your posting. ....... (Just kidding, old pal, please, don't have me flogged.)

You're due for your annual flogging anyway - that's where the "special" comes from...

NOW, you tell me!

Phillip Swann did not want to deal with the 7 short, single sentence questions that I sent him, so I sent him a single question, today. The following is the email. Read from the bottom up.

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Re: Turner Classic Movies Question

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I don't they dont; haven't seen it in France

Sent from my iPhone

On May 30, 2012, at 1:37 PM, wrote:

> Since TCM provides "true HD" of its film library via satellite to France, when
will TCM provide the same to the American television audience?
>
> Perhaps, this question is somewhat more appropriate for our purposes.
>
> Thank you.


As you can see, Mr. Swann has cleared things right up. He deserves our gratitude and admiration for his effort on our behalf. You only get results like this if you go to the top people in their field.

Saw last night " River of no Return" a film by Otto Preminger with Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe (1954).
Beautiful master HD, very little waste on the image, it was beautiful...

Except TCM HD doesn't broadcast anything in actual HD.

Hello, In France TCM is in native HD on some films 1920x1080i...

Edited by Urga - 6/6/12 at 9:36am

For info " Dave Bowman TCM HD " is Operator on TCM HD Fr or his positions on HCFR are always clear .

Kim Novak / James Stewart ...

*sigh* I would say it's time to create a separate TCM-HD France thread.

Or figure out where I need to move to in order to receive those signals.

Can you spell F.R.A.N.C.E....

Yes, Everyone meet at Urga's house for a Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in "HDTV" film festival!

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of French Polynesia, I'm pretty sure there is another feed for that area, although France would certainly be nice as well.

It is obvious to me that France has a technology system that produces television pictures better than anything I have EVER seen in the United States. Just look at the picture of the green car. WOW! This is not just a matter of Turner Classic Movies. The picture beats anything we see here.

France sorta had HDTV in the 1950s. Probably not a lot of French households had it but it had around 800 lines of resolution though not widescreen. It also ate a lot of bandwidth limiting how many channels France could allocate so the went PAL like the rest of Europe.

Yes, 819 lines but besides being 4:3 it was also only B&W. Not to get too OT but wasn't France SECAM? which brings up the question with HDTV, do they still use SECAM(probably not) I'm guessing... they use DVB like the rest of Europe and SECAM is a footnote in history?

His Pioneer Kuro may have something to do with it.