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All 6 Star Wars films on HBO-HD June 1&2

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Just a heads up for those who care. HBO-HD is showing all six Star Wars movies from 1 - 6 on June 1st starting at 4pm through June 2nd ending around noon or so. Set your DVR's
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awesome...
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cinemax is playing all 6 episodes in hi def starting today at 3pm
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CycloneGT
At least Han won't shoot first.
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I ordered HBO, got all six movies onto D-VHS, cancelled HBO.
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Sweet, thanks. I forgot to set my DVR during today's Cinemax marathon, and didn't feel like walking my girlfriend through the process (or having her turn on the projector for 5 minutes to just set the recordings).


I assume these will be OAR like the Cinemax presentation.
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chitchatjf
Even though i have the DVDs the DVR is recording the Cinemax marathon in one long gulp. (Yes I have the room)
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how many hours to record all 6? how much space do i need on my dvr?
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Does anyone know with certainty whether either or both the Cinemax-HD and the HBO-HD broadcasts will be in OAR- Original Aspect Ratio?
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chitchatjf
yes and yes


At the explicit request of Lucasfilm, the high definition broadcasts of the Star Wars films are in the original scope aspect ratio
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yes and yes


At the explicit request of Lucasfilm, the high definition broadcasts of the Star Wars films are in the original scope aspect ratio
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And they look great. I've already DVR'd SW and TESB off of HBO-HD about a month back, cause they're the only ones I care about anyway. Oh, and III as well, but only because its a great demo for a system.


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Ken H
IIRC, some of the initial showings on Cinemax HD were not OAR. Your mileage may vary.
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IIRC, some of the initial showings on Cinemax HD were not OAR. Your mileage may vary.
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Caught the end of SW3 on Cinemax HD, it was OAR. SW 4 just started and it's OAR. Hopefully, all will be OAR. The DVR is crankin' away.
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I really need to get an external Hard Drive. Dang this infernal 120g DVR!!
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I really need to get an external Hard Drive. Dang this infernal 120g DVR!!
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LOL. I remember my fist hard drive I ever bought. It was a whole 20MB (yes, that's Megabyte with an M). It had a 2800RPM platter speed and came in a case the size of a frag box. I was like "wow, how could anyone EVER fill something like that!"



Too bad I'm still running with an SD DVR. I wouldn't mind recording these at all.
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Too bad I'm still running with an SD DVR. I wouldn't mind recording these at all.
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You're running off an SD DVR, and you have the temerity to call yourself NetworkTV??



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IIRC, some of the initial showings on Cinemax HD were not OAR. Your mileage may vary.
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Not these! Lucasfilm INSISTED on OAR at least for the HD shows.
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IIRC, some of the initial showings on Cinemax HD were not OAR. Your mileage may vary.
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It was MaxOnDemand that were not all OAR (and only Episode I by my recollection). The broadcasted showings on Max and HBO have all been OAR since they began showing all 6.
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It was MaxOnDemand that were not all OAR (and only Episode I by my recollection). The broadcasted showings on Max and HBO have all been OAR since they began showing all 6.
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Episode II was the one that wasn't OAR on On Demand.
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Wonder if the recordings used for HBO/CMax are the ones scanned at 4k (for 1080/24p downconversion) by John Lowry with banks of Apple Macs paralleled as an image-restoration supercomputer? -- John

Edit:Apparently, from Lowry's 2nd/3rd resonse in this article , his 4k scanning wasn't used for the series.
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