SDTV or HDTV?

[WISCOJIM]

Originally Posted by centralradio

CBS will be rerunning I Love Lucy and Dick Van Dyke show tonight .Friday 22nd 8PM EST .I've seen them the last year.

You haven't seen these yet. Each year they create new pairings of episodes mashed together.

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[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by centralradio

CBS will be rerunning I Love Lucy and Dick Van Dyke show tonight ...Nevermind the 4.3 box they put it in.

I don't get the complaint about 4x3 pillarbox? That's the original aspect ratio. They definitely should not crop them to get 16x9.

Also, the great thing about these reworks is that the originals are high quality 35mm film, so the HD quality is excellent. As far as the colorization goes, I agree it's unnecessary, but at least the quality is much better than it was when it was first tried years ago; and, as you say, you can turn the color off.

[user181]

Originally Posted by centralradio

CBS will be rerunning I Love Lucy and Dick Van Dyke show tonight .Friday 22nd 8PM EST .I've seen them the last year.How much more they can get out of these classics besides colorizing them for SDTV and HDTV.Not really a fan of colorizing .Nevermind the 4.3 box they put it in.



I've downloaded both shows last year and play them through WMP player and turn off the color.



The same for all of the Rankin Bass Christmas classics,Charlie Brown ,Holiday movies and other old holiday favorites. Its like getting all whats left out of an orange to make orange juice by squeezing the crap out it.

What exactly are you criticizing?

[old_tv_nut]

Colorizing sitcoms is very different artistically and philosophically from colorizing classic black and white films. The old films had very carefully crafted looks to the images, which added color crudely distracts from. Sitcoms' only look is average-key broadly lighted, with no deviation for mood, and color actually can add to this.

[kramden66]

They put it in 4.3 because that's how it was filmed / made , no matter what you do to make it fill a 16.9 screen you will lose , you will either cut off the top and bottom of it losing some of the image or stretch it making people shorter and wider and hurting the rsolution , there are movies that are wider than 16.9 tv and so you don't lose anything there will be a slight bar at the top and bottom or else you will lse some of the image on the sides.

[dishdude]

Reading these old SD/HD threads are the best.

[Dude111]

Yes indeed they are...

In my opinion SD has always been fine

[Telecolor 3007]

For the moment I use S.D.T.V. 'cause I don't turn on the tv too much, so it's not worthing the investment.