TCM: Finally in Real HD? (1 Viewer)

[Mark McSherry]

Thanks for the heads-up! Chimes at Midnight follows The Lady from Shanghai.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Would be nice if TCM could find a better print of Journey into Fear to broadcast.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Saw the beginning of the TCM broadcast of Star Wars and noticed that the aspect ratio changed after the credits and the image filled the whole screen. No fault of TCM I guess since they have no choice of what print is given to them?

 

[Tom Logan]

I've been noticing a number of strange aspect ratios lately on TCM:

Executive Suite (1954) was stretched wide to 16 x 9. IMDb says it's originally 1.75 x 1, but it was definitely stretched, i.e., looked like a 4:3 stretched to 16 x 9.

And there was one other pre-widescreen movie that was also stretched wide to 16 x 9.

This was in the past few months. Not a fan if this is a trend.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

A Thing from Another World (1951) was stretched in a broadcast a few days ago.

 

[Garysb]

The Way We Were has been shown at 1:78 instead of 2:35 for a few years on TCM.

 

[Rob W]

A Thing from Another World (1951) was stretched in a broadcast a few days ago.

I watched about ten minutes of that and don't believe it was stretched; looks like the master they have matted off the top and bottom of the frame to get the 1:78 ratio.

 

[Ken H]

I watched about ten minutes of that and don't believe it was stretched; looks like the master they have matted off the top and bottom of the frame to get the 1:78 ratio.

I've seen the same or similar approach with other Academy AR filmed programming. The video transfer uses all the image on the film for a slightly wider image. A number of older TV shows that have been remastered to HD look like this; one that comes to mind is Hogan's Heroes.

 

[Tom Logan]

A 1947 or 48 (i.e., pre-widescreen) film was shown a few days ago, and it was also stretched to fill 16:9.

I still do not like this trend. Prolly time to search out TCM on social media and say something...

 

[RolandL]

Moving to Florida next month. Spectrum and Frontier do not offer TCM in HD. i guess I'll go with Directv.

 

[Roger Grodsky]

Spectrum here in Cincinnati is HD. But it used to be Time-Warner. The picture and sound actually markedly improved recently.

 

[Matt Hough]

Yes, here in Charlotte Spectrum also offers TCM in HD, but, like Roger, Spectrum here was once Time-Warner.

 

[Hollywoodaholic]

Moving to Florida next month. Spectrum and Frontier do not offer TCM in HD. i guess I'll go with Directv.

I live in Central Florida and have Spectrum and get TCM in HD.

 

[TonyD]

Comcast. Now known as Xfinity also has it in HD.

 

[Garysb]

Verizon continues to have TCM is SD only. I watch in HD using Amazon Fire TV streaming.

 

[RolandL]

I live in Central Florida and have Spectrum and get TCM in HD.

I will be living in Palmetto. On the Spectrum web site channel listing it's listed as channel 53 only so, I'm assuming that would be the SD channel. Also, no YES channel?

 

[Roger Grodsky]

Not necessarily. Here in Cincy, all the lower-numbered channels are now HD, but the fact that channel 53 is the only channel listed is a concern.

 

[Hollywoodaholic]

I will be living in Palmetto. On the Spectrum web site channel listing it's listed as channel 53 only so, I'm assuming that would be the SD channel. Also, no YES channel?

I've got about 600+ channels so I don't know about YES, but I watch TCM in HD on 1357. There's an equivalent two digit channel for it, but I just stuck with the original 4-digit version because that's what I remember from first accessing.

 

[TonyD]

I will be living in Palmetto. On the Spectrum web site channel listing it's listed as channel 53 only so, I'm assuming that would be the SD channel. Also, no YES channel?

YES is a regional sports network and I’m not sure why it would be carried outside of NY.

I know you can subscribe to rsn on Dtv.
Do other carriers do this?

 

[Robert Crawford]

I will be living in Palmetto. On the Spectrum web site channel listing it's listed as channel 53 only so, I'm assuming that would be the SD channel. Also, no YES channel?

Not being able to watch the YES channel is one of the main reasons why I'm still with DirecTV.