Upcoming ABC HD movies (1 Viewer)

[Gary_E]

Read this over at AVSforum.com.
This weekend ABC begins HD broadcasts of the BOND PICTURE SHOW. Listed for February 17th: Raiders Of The Lost Ark and on the 18th: Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, to be broadcast HD along with 5.1 Dolby Digital audio.
Here's the full schedule:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...hreadid=111281
-Gary

 

[Ed St. Clair]

Thank you!

We do not have RotLA on DVD, however we now 'have' it on HDTV. Great!

 

[MikeM]

Great news, thanks for the post, Gary!

 

[Gary_E]

You're welcome Mike.

Let's hope ABC does these two films the right way. You've got to give ABC some credit, at least they are committed to showing their prime time movies in HD. Last night, DR. NO looked very good considering it's age, although the audio was fair but that was not unexpected. The HD broadcast here from the Miami affiliate (WPLG) was very nicely done.

TV: Toshiba 40H80

STB: Samsung T-150

Receiver: Yamaha 995

-Gary

 

[Brad Hood]

If these are new digital transfers of Raiders and Temple of Doom, might it mean that the DVDs can't be far behind. I can't imagine Lucas/Spielberg doing a new tranfer just for an OTA broadcast. And if Indy IV is really finally in the works, I can't see them not capitilizing by releasing the DVDs.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

They did High-Def remasters and 5.1 mixes on the Indy movies 2 years ago when the new VHS tapes came out (and the cancelled LDs) It's a matter of Lucas/Speilburg letting them out
Anyone with an HD set near Philly?