August 15 TPIR taping

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[quote name=\'Adam Nedeff\' post=\'160905\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 08:44 PM\']
Not mine, that's exactly what my dad says.
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Yup, my dad used to swear by the "screen-filling" virtues of pan-and-scan, as well. Hated the letterboxes, no matter how much I argued the virtues of seeing a movie as it was intended. He finally got an HDTV and now complains about letterboxing "the other way" -- i.e., pillarboxing on 4:3 content. (But to his credit, he does watch those programs in their intended aspect ratios rather than turning on side stretching just for the sake of "filling the screen.")

Re: Power of Ten tape dates -- PoT did indeed start taping shows for air after Drew was announced as TPIR host, so the two TPIR mentions thus far haven't been coincidental. The show has a short lead time so that the questions can reference current events (e.g., the Hillary Clinton/feminism question), although this hasn't come into play so much yet.

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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'160862\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 04:46 PM\']
RE: the original topic...I'm really excited now.  It'll be interesting to see how this will turn out.

RE: this J! tangent...I liked the 91-97 set (the grids).
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Seconded on both counts. I'm really looking forward to the new season of TPiR, whenever that may be.

[robsearson]

[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' post=\'160755\' date=\'Aug 15 2007, 08:01 PM\']
TonySCV over at golden-road.net (who IIRC, is Tony Harrison of tpir.tv) attended today's tapings, and has a Q&A thread here.
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Sounds good, I'm looking forward to seeing the freshened set with Drew at the helm!

I wonder if the set tweaks and other updates have been rolling around for a while in the minds of the Price staff, or if the changes were all brainstormed just in the last couple of months.  Probably some combination of both.

[jalman]

[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' post=\'160902\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 07:47 PM\']
[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' post=\'160901\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 06:42 PM\']
Those change-resistant people are probably the same ones who think pan-and-scanned films give you more of the picture, because it "fills up the screen", even though it cuts off a good 40% of the picture on the side.
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That one went right over my head.
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The HBO (or any "premium" movie channel) experience!

NB: Nobody ever notices that Don't Forget the Ripof^H^HLyrics is in standard-def widescreen?  I gotta watch some PoT sometime also.

[Neumms]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'160865\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 03:56 PM\']
Alternately, the show could move to widescreen-only distrubution (like Conan O'Brien does), with letterboxing for SD television screens, and you could join us in the 21st century.
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Widescreen-only would be perfect. Then they could just have a tighter shot, rather than needing the potted plants. And we'd see less of those gawd-awful things hanging from the ceiling!

Off the topic of game shows, has anyone seen some of the NASA stuff on Discovery HD? Amazing pictures.