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The Sound of Music on ABC 12/30...OAR?

post #1 of 10
12/27/07 at 9:32pm
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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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post #2 of 10
12/28/07 at 6:56am

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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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post #3 of 10
12/28/07 at 11:56am
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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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post #4 of 10
12/28/07 at 1:56pm

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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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post #5 of 10
12/28/07 at 3:49pm
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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.

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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post #6 of 10
12/30/07 at 11:18pm

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I've been watching the ABC broadcast for the last few years. For the first time in HD on broadcast the last 2. This year was the first time I had an upconvert HD-DVD player and as usual, I put the 5 Star 20th Century Fox SD-DVD from 2000 in and played that after a while with the TV version going.

ABC cropped it to 185 to fill the screen. The think I noticed more was how a lot of people have mentioned how bad the DVD transfer is. This year I could see the ABC broadcast looked better then the SD-DVD I have!
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post #7 of 10
12/31/07 at 10:54pm
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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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post #8 of 10
1/1/08 at 7:26am

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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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post #9 of 10
1/1/08 at 10:17pm

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Originally Posted by Nelson Au
I've been watching the ABC broadcast for the last few years. For the first time in HD on broadcast the last 2. This year was the first time I had an upconvert HD-DVD player and as usual, I put the 5 Star 20th Century Fox SD-DVD from 2000 in and played that after a while with the TV version going.

ABC cropped it to 1.85 to fill the screen. The think I noticed more was how a lot of people have mentioned how bad the DVD transfer is. This year I could see the ABC broadcast looked better then the SD-DVD I have!

Yeah ... The August 2000 "5 Star Collection" transfer was *horrible*; and was riddled with EE artifacts. You definitely don't want to even *try* to upconvert that atrocity. There is a better SD-DVD transfer out there, though: The "40th Anniversary Special Edition" which was released in November 2005. A new transfer was struck for this release, and most of the "digititus" from the first transfer was cleaned up. The "blooming" and poor contrast that was evident in the 2000 transfer was also fixed. Until there's a HD release, the "40th Anniversary" SD-DVD release is the preferred way to view the movie.

Here's a link to the HTF Review of the release

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...y-edition.html
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post #10 of 10
1/2/08 at 9:02am

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Thanks Joseph! I was going to wait for a hi-def version before I rebuy this film. But it's good to know there's a good SD version. I don't have a blu ray player yet, so this could be the version I buy.
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