Beauty and the Beast HD screen shots!! (1 Viewer)

[Mark_Mac]

Beauty and the Beast was on ABC this last weekend in HD. I put up some screenshots from the MYHD pc card, Ill add some DVD captures for comparison later.
http://www.geocities.com/sircash713
http://www.geocities.com/sircash13/BNBHD.html
as far as the station logo, thats the price of ota HDTV. I can live with that alot more then excessive EE or video noise.

 

[Jesse Skeen]

Am I the only one who finds it completely ridiculous that they would bother putting HDTV on the air and then leave the network logos on the screen? I won't watch anything on standard TV with a logo, I sure as hell won't watch HDTV like that! (Belle looks like she's about to suck up that (abc) )!

 

[Adam_S]

Lookit! lookit! if I zoom in 3x10^69 power I see mosquito noise! fie on you disney! fie on you for giving us such a piece of crap product!

Sorry, couldn't resist, those screenshots look fantastic though.

Adam

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Ahh. You can get a nice 30 degree angle of viewing and compression does not intrude into the experience.

Agreed that the logo on the HD station is rather silly.

Darnit...but I SO wish I had a digital recorder to have taped that. What is the equipment you use?

That pic looks 100 times better than the digital screen capture from the same scene on the DVD.

 

[Michael St. Clair]

That pic looks 100 times better than the digital screen capture from the same scene on the DVD.

Yep, even if you reduce the resolution and color depth of the D-VHS grabs, they blow the DVD away.
How can that be?

 

[Jesse Skeen]

I find visible scan lines a lot less annoying than intentional vandalism of the picture. That's like having digital-quality radio and intentionally putting background noise over the music. Shows a complete lack of thinking on the part of whoever's in the TV business these days (I wanted to work in TV a long time ago but decided not to, this being one of the reasons why.)

 

[Dave F]

Those pics sure are purdy. By the time my area gets HD, my sight will be so bad it won't matter!

-Dave

 

[Ned]

Maybe Disney will think twice about putting 600 versions of the same movie on 1 disc.

 

[Dave F]

I doubt it. If it'd sell more, they'd put 601 versions on the disc.
-Dave

 

[Mark_Mac]

Darnit...but I SO wish I had a digital recorder to have taped that. What is the equipment you use?

David I used the MYHD pc card to record Beauty and the Beast to Harddrive(it was almost 10gig) then i dump it to DVHS.
Go here for info on the MYHD card
http://www.digitalconnection.com/
cool thing about this card is it can upconvert DVD files to 1920x1080 and does a great job. There is a noticable difference from my RP91.

 

[Joe Schwartz]

Mark, thanks for posting those gorgeous screen captures!
For comparison, I captured the same frames from the DVD:

 

[Joe Schwartz]

Here are some side-by-side comparisons of details from those frames.
In each pair, the HD version is on the left, and the DVD version is on the right (blown up to HD resolution).

 

[Mark_Mac]

Joe Schwartz

Your comparison shots are great!!! Thanks for finishing what I said I was going to do. After the first few negative comments I didnt think anyone cared so I wasnt going to waste my time by posting the DVD screen shots I had taken. Ive been really suprised by the amount of negitive comments toward HDTV on this forum.

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Yes, thanks for those shot comparisons. I just can't believe that with all the silly copy-protetion crap that Disney is constantly throwing around that they just out-of-the-blue send out a 720P HD image over the air!
Was it the special edition?
In any case...it certainly shows how worthy HD resolution is...especially on a large screen. It also demonstrates how poor the compression is on this particular DVD title :frowning:

 

[Jordan_E]

I watched part of that broadcast (55-inch Mits) and the image was fantastic, and it will be a long time before I spin the DVD again. Santa, how about one of those JVC D-VHS players? Oops, on the wrong list again this year?

 

[Mark_Mac]

It also demonstrates how poor the compression is on this particular DVD title

Very true...as I stated above this took almost 10gig of harddrive space compared to the DVD that only used 3gig of the DVD.

 

[Miles]

Just curious... backing up the OTA HD broadcast onto the HD... do you still have the ability to edit and chop out the endless ABC commercials?

Thanks,

Miles

 

[Gruson]

HD ownz.

It is time for DVHS for me very soon.

 

[Mark_Mac]

Just curious... backing up the OTA HD broadcast onto the HD... do you still have the ability to edit and chop out the endless ABC commercials?

There is software called HDTVtoMPEG2 that can edit out commercials...its still being worked on but works great for me as is. If you have 2 dvhs players you can edit out commercials easily without quality loss since its all digital.

 

[Jesse Skeen]

"Ive been really suprised by the amount of negitive comments toward HDTV on this forum."

*I've* been really surprised by the apparent lack of protest over logos on HDTV (and regular TV for that matter, which I no longer watch for this reason)! I'd be really pissed if I'd spent thousands of dollars to upgrade to HDTV only to have the picture ruined like that! If I do get an HDTV and it requires an external tuner to get over-the-air broadcasts, I won't bother buying the tuner. (And as annoying as commercial breaks are, if they're placed with consideration as they sometimes used to do, they don't ruin the mood NEARLY as much as an always-present logo! Plus the ads pay for the show, the logos don't do anything but inflate the egos of the networks!)