Which network TV shows I would like to see converted into high-definition one day? I would like to see Up To The Minute, Let's Make a Deal with Wayne Brady, and Big Brother to go HD one day. All on CBS.
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Which Network TV show would you like to go in HD one day?
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I also want to see Let's Make A Deal go HD. I'm surprised for a network show, that it's not in HD. On the CW, I'd like to see Americas Next Top Model go HD. That show I hear was in HD when it was on UPN in its last year or 2 on UPN, but was downgraded to SD when it merged with WB to form the CW. On ABC, I believe Shark Tank is still SD. If so, I'd like to see that one go HD as well. I'm not sure if there are still any shows left in SD on NBC & Fox. I heard the creaters of Family Guy weren't exactly happy that Fox made them make Family Guy in HD, but that show went HD last season.
As for PBS, it's a shame that some programs are still in SD, including Ciao Italia, Charlie Rose (watch that occasionally), & there are a few others that are blank right now. For shows produced by WNET & WGBH, they're in HD. It's select PBS affiliates that either haven't converted to HD, or the broadcast equipment is HD, but the studio equipment is not for filming programs. My local PBS station, WYIN, licensed to Gary, IN, is a station that broadcasts in 720p HD, but anything they produce is not HD, including their local news show. It's sad that even promos & underwriting that was done in HD sometimes get letterboxed, then pillarboxed in the process, because they haven't completely gone HD. Shows recorded in HD by an affiliate does air locally in HD, but locally produced shows, promos, & underwriting does not get shown in HD.
As for PBS, it's a shame that some programs are still in SD, including Ciao Italia, Charlie Rose (watch that occasionally), & there are a few others that are blank right now. For shows produced by WNET & WGBH, they're in HD. It's select PBS affiliates that either haven't converted to HD, or the broadcast equipment is HD, but the studio equipment is not for filming programs. My local PBS station, WYIN, licensed to Gary, IN, is a station that broadcasts in 720p HD, but anything they produce is not HD, including their local news show. It's sad that even promos & underwriting that was done in HD sometimes get letterboxed, then pillarboxed in the process, because they haven't completely gone HD. Shows recorded in HD by an affiliate does air locally in HD, but locally produced shows, promos, & underwriting does not get shown in HD.
I know that Last Call with Carson Daly became the last NBC show ever to go from SD to glory HD this season! Also CBS' B&B was the last soap (despite the genere declining) to go HD too.
Dave said:
Top Model finally went nearly full HD with the new cycle, though some of the cameras (like on Fox's terrible court shows with the Collins College-rejected court animators) are still in 480i widescreen. Amazingly, when Swift Justice lost Nancy Grace and moved from Atlanta to LA they went back to SD because they film out of the Joe Brown/Judy studio, which I think aren't switching to HD yet because of pleading and begging from viewers to not see the litigants on those shows in full and clear detail
.I don't think Big Brother will go HD anytime soon, and that will be very challenging.
And Sunset Bronson Studios (on the KTLA lot) is where Swift Justice, Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, and Let's Make a Deal tape, and they're all in SD. The only two shows that I know of that were/are produced in HD there are Hannah Montana and Family Game Night.
And Sunset Bronson Studios (on the KTLA lot) is where Swift Justice, Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, and Let's Make a Deal tape, and they're all in SD. The only two shows that I know of that were/are produced in HD there are Hannah Montana and Family Game Night.
HD equipment and such has been around for many years now. And now the equipment is far cheaper.
If our local TV newscasts are now in HD (as they are in my market), our local LD station (WGSR) is mostly in HD, then the big broadcasters and program producers have *NO* excuse *NOT* to produce in at least 720p 16:9, and to offer it to the stations that buy the shows.
Big Brother going HD? Not really *that* challenging. Big Brother UK is broadcast at present in 576i 16:9.
The one thing that irritates the heck out of me is 16:9 programs aired on a 4:3 sub-channel. Especially Sesame Street, where the Elmo's World segments are still in 4:3 - so in the original broadcast they get the black bars on the side. Then because it's a 16:9 program, the broadcaster puts it in a letterbox. Then this 4:3 program on a 16:9 display... pillarbox in letterbox in pillarbox... Eurgh! If it is a bandwidth issue, keep the 480i resolution but at least air programs that are in 16:9 in the 16:9 format. Otherwise with all this letterboxing and pillarboxing I might as well be watching a picture broadcast originally in 377i (405 lines, the old UK TV standard).
If our local TV newscasts are now in HD (as they are in my market), our local LD station (WGSR) is mostly in HD, then the big broadcasters and program producers have *NO* excuse *NOT* to produce in at least 720p 16:9, and to offer it to the stations that buy the shows.
Big Brother going HD? Not really *that* challenging. Big Brother UK is broadcast at present in 576i 16:9.
The one thing that irritates the heck out of me is 16:9 programs aired on a 4:3 sub-channel. Especially Sesame Street, where the Elmo's World segments are still in 4:3 - so in the original broadcast they get the black bars on the side. Then because it's a 16:9 program, the broadcaster puts it in a letterbox. Then this 4:3 program on a 16:9 display... pillarbox in letterbox in pillarbox... Eurgh! If it is a bandwidth issue, keep the 480i resolution but at least air programs that are in 16:9 in the 16:9 format. Otherwise with all this letterboxing and pillarboxing I might as well be watching a picture broadcast originally in 377i (405 lines, the old UK TV standard).
I think that BB producers Grodner and Meehan are cheap-o's when BB (the only network show in boring-crude SD). Come on, go into the HD world. Stop being cheap SOBs Grodner and Meehan and why don't they break down and convert to HD???
When shows go HD, they have to spend more $ on sets and makeup, you can get away with cheap sets and makeup in SD and many viewers of these showers probably wouldn't notice if they went HD. Viewers of daytime court shows probably can't afford new TVs
Divorce Court, America's Court are in HD. So was now-canceled Judge Karen's Court.
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nomadcowatbk said:
You could have posted "some viewers" at the beginning of your last sentence.
spencerkarter85 said:
Not true; all three of them are in the utterly "fake HD" 480i widescreen, same as Judge Alex and Bill Cunningham. It's what Fox tried to pass off for years as "enhanced widescreen" before they went all-HD with their shows.
If you're someone who cranks up the overscan on an HDTV all the way and see those little black and white artifacts on the top of the screen (the vertical blanking interval on standard sets and NTSC-recorded programming), it's SD all the way; HD just has the full video frame without anything else and all the data is elsewhere in the transmission.
mrschimpf said:Joe Brown/Judy studio, which I think aren't switching to HD yet because of pleading and begging from viewers to not see the litigants on those shows in full and clear detail
TOO LATE! Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown are (as of this past fall) now in HD.
But Extreme Makeover: Home Edition returned for the holidays, and they were still in good ol' SD.
JeeperOne
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Personally I wouldn't mind seeing UTTM transformed into a diginet on its O&O's which CBS can simulcast during the overnight hours for the O&O's & affiliates alike who want to carry it (As they do now) while Let's Make a Deal (Bad game show) & Big Brother (Garbage show) both simply go awayspencerkarter85 said:
JMO.....
Cheers & 73 ;D
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