Author Topic: Games in HD (Read 6555 times)

clemon79 · « **Reply #30 on:** March 20, 2008, 04:29:46 PM »

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I wish NBC would shoot "Deal or No Deal" in HD - inane game playing aside, there are 26 52 other reasons why.
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Fixed!

MikeK · « **Reply #31 on:** March 20, 2008, 05:44:29 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'182031\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 04:29 PM\']
[quote name=\'Offshored2007\' post=\'182024\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 12:12 PM\']
I wish NBC would shoot "Deal or No Deal" in HD - inane game playing aside, there are 26 52 other reasons why.
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Fixed!
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There's your numberwang.

I'll fix it before anybody else does.

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Neumms · « **Reply #32 on:** March 20, 2008, 05:46:36 PM »

Numberwank! Oh, f---.

uncamark · « **Reply #33 on:** March 20, 2008, 05:49:07 PM »

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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' post=\'181991\' date=\'Mar 20 2008, 07:41 AM\']
So with a show like Everybody Loves Raymond that was shot in HD, TBS isn't showing the HD version?
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You'd think that would be the case, but it's not. Reruns of "The Office" on TBS are the same way.
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TBS gets regularly bashed over at AVS Forum as the worst example of an HD channel.
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"Raymond" went HD in syndication this week (along with switching stations in Chicago from WGN to WPWR--which does transmit in HD). Does TBS air the same episodes that syndication airs in a particular week, or is their schedule different--and will CBS Distribution service them with the HD versions?

Terry K · « **Reply #34 on:** March 22, 2008, 03:53:01 AM »

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[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' post=\'181259\' date=\'Mar 13 2008, 05:18 PM\']
I can't really tell since I don't have HD, but it looks like the newest season of Cash Cab (airing at 6pm ET) is shot in HD.
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Is Discovery running that "Now Available in High Definition" graphic at the bottom of the screen at the top of the show?

And forgive my cynicism, but I wonder if they're doing phony HD similar to what TNT and TBS do to most of their programming schedule (at least people who have HD sets tell me this).
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I don't have a HD set myself to confirm anything, but my impression from hanging out at my parents' place is that the general-audience networks (TBS, TNT, USA) are the only ones that stretch non-HD programs to fit a 16:9 screen, rather than pillarboxing them. If Cash Cab is phony HD, I hope it's by the method Discovery uses when it puts non-HD material (old footage, night vision, etc.) into its true HD shows - cropping the top and bottom off to fill a 16:9 screen.

I haven't seen much of Discovery HD since it went from a mix of stuff that shows off HD (e.g., Sunrise Earth) and mainline Discovery shows to a simulcast of the mothership, but I haven't yet seen anything that wasn't true HD on there.
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Discovery has 2 HD channels, HD Theater (the old Discovery HD) and Discovery HD.

Unrealtor · « **Reply #35 on:** March 22, 2008, 09:54:37 AM »

[quote name=\'Terry K\' post=\'182168\' date=\'Mar 22 2008, 02:53 AM\']
Discovery has 2 HD channels, HD Theater (the old Discovery HD) and Discovery HD.
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Aha. That's what happened. All I knew was that the old "Discovery HD" channel had suddenly lost the Discovery bug, and there was a second channel also labeled as "Discovery HD" in the program guide that was the HD version of the channel.