[KevinYee]

Just SD here in the Bay Area. Did anyone get it in HD?

 

[DonBerg]

No, didn't you read the announcement posted earlier from ABC? They were unable to do an HD version, so it was sent out as an SD upconvert.

 

[KevinYee]

I must've missed that announcement. Haven't done much thread reading over the Thanksgiving break. Too bad, I was looking forward to this one in HD.

 

[computergeek]

It still looked pretty decent for a 1940 movie.

Naturally, being a 1940 movie, it was 4*3 aspect ratio.

 

[Marissadad]

I compared it directly to the DVD and the ABC presentation looked much better. The DVD is very grainy. They must have restored this movie for showing last night.

 

[greeno]

At the beginning of the movie there were a couple of interesting things that happened. First, KGO-DT flipped back and forth between DD5.1 and and non DD5.1 a couple of times. Also right at the beginning the video looked MUCH more detailed and saturated (but still 4:3) but then it switched to a lesser quality version. In fact, it looked sooo gooood that I would have been willing to risk burn-in (my set locks into full on 1080i input). After things settled down, I switched to the ATT cable version and really enjoyed the show.


best,

jeff

 

[Savageone79]

Watching a few movies or shows in 4:3 is not going to risk burn in.. you shouldn't worry about it. If the movie is in that format and you wanna watch it like that do so.

 

[Bfadams]

WTNH in CT had problems with the audio for most of the show. PQ was 4:3 and quite good.