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ABC will be airing The Sound of Music in HD on Sunday, December 30. I was wondering if they will be airing it in its Original Aspect Ratio. I hold out some hope as they showed Forrest Gump in its OAR on the HD feed earlier this year.
At least it will be uncut. When I was a kid, NBC shaved 30 minutes off the running time in addition to the twin horrors of pan-and-scan and commercials. I remember one year when the wedding scene was removed completely.
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Re: The Sound of Music on ABC 12/30...OAR?
It wasn't OAR last year, so I'd say with 99.999999% certainty that it will not be OAR this year either. It barely looks better than the DVD transfer, I'm told.
Here's a thread about the presentation from last year:
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...ec-23-abc.html
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Re: The Sound of Music on ABC 12/30...OAR?
Last year sounds like it was brutal. But I was hoping ABC had turned a corner. Thanks for the thread link, Thomas.
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Re: The Sound of Music on ABC 12/30...OAR?
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Originally Posted by SD_Brian
I remember watching The Sound of Music on broadcast TV once and the picture switched from pan & scan to letterboxed during every musical number, then went back to pan & scan for dialogue scenes. Talk about a tease. Pointless and annoying, too!
I'm happy I have the DVD so I'll never have to watch this on broadcast TV again.
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Was this around 1994 on NBC? I remember that in horror as they even cut the entire wedding sequence.
The only broadcast I once had that I wish I still had was the Monday December 25, 1989 one which begins with ALF informing viewers that he'll be back in two weeks, and then starts singing the title song before the NBC Monday Night at the Movies intro starts.
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At least I won't be spoiled for the eventual Blu-Ray release, which better be SPECTACULAR or else.
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Re: The Sound of Music on ABC 12/30...OAR?
The most notable instance of cropping on the TV broadcast was when the children first sang for the baroness. You could only see six children in a wide shot.
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