House Panel Approves Copyright Bill; Reader Q&A on HD Channel Sources and Upconversion

THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2004


 

 

LETTERS...

Dale:

 

Are all the programs on your daily list true HD?

 

I ask because my local cable provider puts out an HD schedule for the channels they carry. 

Their list seems to be missing some shows that are in your daily emailed schedule.

 

And, in your list, a number of channels are good enough to indicate when shows are upconverted,

or have a different aspect ratio. And the main broadcast networks only show their HD material.

 

Should I conclude that the lists of programs for other channels are all HD? or at least 35mm source and converted?

Specifically, is everything listed for channels like:

 

 

real HD? or is there some upconversion among these programs?

And if there is upconversion, how can I find out which are real HD and which not?

 

Thanks for your help, as always,

 

David Keeble

 

Thank you David for asking. I think your question is one many may have and so I will include my response in tonight's edition. I will start by saying that all of the information we publish comes from what is posted on the respective  web sites. There are times when error occurs and dealing with as much data presented in a large variety of ways doesn't ease our task in harvesting this information. Most of the program managers and schedulers are not familiar with the origins or even what aspect ratio is presented.  I am entering talks now to make the information more uniform channel to channel and with the key information which you have asked about, i.e., aspect ratio, source, upconversion or HDTV, and which HDTV.

 

 

Discovery HD Theatre -- 100% HDTV 1080i from 35mm, IMAX,, and video

 

Bravo - all HDTV 1080i sources is most often  35mm or HDTV video. I suspect super 16mm is also one of their sources.

 

Cinemax --  HDTV 1080i HDTV

ESPN HD  720p HDTV - Those events listed are in HDTV 720p.  
 

HDNET -- 100% 1080i HDTV with some variations in the sources which does impact final quality.

 

HDNET Movies - 1080i HDTV from 35 mm flim source
 

HBO -- 1080i HDTV

Showtime -- 1080i HDTV as noted in the guide. We do list their upconversions as well, but with clear notation

STARZ: HDTV 1080i from  35 mm film source

Encore HD -- 1080i HDTV from 35mm source

The Movie Channel - 1080i HDTV from 35 mm source

 

INHD - All 1080i HDTV with a variety of sources ranging from IMAX to 35mm to HDTV video (I suspicion some 16mm)

 

PBS - the PBS Channel that we feature is all 1080i HDTV with a variety of sources

 

TheWB 1080i HDTV from 35 mm source
 

Dale

 

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Cast: John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, James Dixon Director: Larry Cohen
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Winners Take All

PG-13 - 1:42 - 1986
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8:30PM ET/7:30 C
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10:30PM ET/9:30 C
Out Of Bounds

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Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, Jeff Kober Director: Richard Tuggle
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12:05AM ET/11:05 C
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Out Of Bounds

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Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, Jeff Kober Director: Richard Tuggle
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3:20AM ET/2:20 C
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5:00AM ET/4:00 C
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PG - 1:54 - 1971
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Taking Care Of Business

R Time: 108  
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9:45AM ET/8:45 C
Volcano

PG13 Time: 103  
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11:30AM ET/10:30 C
Scooby-doo

PG Time: 86  
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1:00PM ET/12:00 C
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt

R Time: 89  
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2:30PM ET/1:30 C
In Dreams

R Time: 99  
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4:15PM ET/3:15 C
My Fellow Americans

PG13 Time: 101  
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6:00PM ET/5:00 C
Mortal Thoughts

R Time: 102  
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8:00PM ET/7:00 C
Brown Sugar

PG13 Time: 109  
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10:00PM ET/9:00 C
Scooby-doo

PG Time: 86  
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2:30AM ET/1:30 C
Eyes Wide Shut

R Time: 159  
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6:00AM ET/5:00 C
Far From Home The Adventures Of Yellow Dog

PG Time: 80
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7:30AM ET/6:30 C
The Cat's Meow

PG13 Time: 113
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9:30AM ET/8:30 C
Dances With Wolves

PG13 Time: 181
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12:45PM ET/11:45 C
Quiz Show

PG13 Time: 132
"Four stars" (New York Post). Nominated for three Oscars(R) including Best Picture and Director (Robert Redford), this acclaimed 1994 drama details the shocking television quiz-show scandal of the late 1950s. John Turturro stars as Herbert Stempel, a Jewish man from Queens whose incredible reign as champion on the wildly popular game show Twenty-One was brought to a surprising end when he failed to answer a simple question. New champion Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes)--a handsome intellectual from a well-to-do literary family--would go on to achieve national fame...until Stempel revealed that he had been paid to lose, resulting in an explosive national scandal and a congressional investigation. Also with David Paymer and Best Supporting Actor Oscar(R) nominee Paul Scofield.

3:00PM ET/2:00 C
Anaconda

PG13 Time: 89
Welcome to the Amazon, where every creature is a link in the food chain, and even a human is just a potential meal! A group of filmmakers journeys deep into the jungle in search of a legendary Indian tribe...but instead happens upon a ravenous, 40-foot snake. One by one, they become breakfast, lunch and dinner...until only two are left in a desperate fight to the death! Also with Eric Stoltz and Kari Wuhrer.

5:30PM ET/4:30 C
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

G Time: 89
A young runaway journeys with a traveling carnival to Atlantic City where she attempts a horse-jumping stunt with dire consequences. In the Depression-era 1930s, young orphan Sonora Webster flees her irritable aunt and gains employment as a stablehand with a passing carnival. The horse master and his son reluctantly take a liking to Sonora and soon she learns the dangerous stunt of horse-diving. But when a poorly performed dive leaves her blinded, Sonora is forced to consider that her carnival days may be over. With Gabrielle Anwar, Michael Schoeffling, Cliff Robertson and Kathleen York. Directed by Steve Miner.

7:00PM ET/6:00 C
Mission: Impossible

PG13 Time: 110
Your mission-should you choose to accept it-is to go along with Tom Cruise on "the wildest movie ride of the year" (New York Times). He plays super-agent Ethan Hunt, accused of betraying his agency and selling top-secret information to the highest bidder. Racing from one tight spot to another, he fights to prove his innocence...and to uncover the "mole" who threatens the C.I.A.'s efforts in Eastern Europe.

9:00PM ET/8:00 C
The Silence Of The Lambs

R Time: 118
Jonathan Demme's 1991 Best Picture Oscar(R)-winner introduced the world to one of cinema's most terrifying villains: Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. Played by Anthony Hopkins, Lecter is the imprisoned devil to Jodie Foster's angelic FBI trainee Clarice Starling, and their dramatic quid pro quo exchanges--him providing clues to a serial killer's identity, her providing details of her personal life--earned both much-deserved Oscars(R) for Best Actor and Actress. Based on Thomas Harris's acclaimed bestseller, the film follows Starling's hunt for a madman who skins his victims. When a senator's daughter is snared in his psychopathic web, it's up to Starling to indulge Lecter's whims in order to stop the killer. Liver and fava beans, anyone? Scott Glenn, Ted Levine and Anthony Heald co-star.

12:00AM ET/11:00 C
Deadwood 02: Deep Water

TVMA Time: 55
As suspicions arise that "road agents" may have been the true perpetrators of the massacre, Swearengen takes a special interest in the health of its sole survivor--a young girl ministered to by the unlikely team of Doc Cochran and Calamity Jane. Meanwhile, Bullock and Star attempt to buy property from Swearengen, who suspects an alliance between Hickok and the hardware boys. At the Grand Central Hotel, Brom Garret rethinks his recent investment, while his wife Alma medicates her anxieties. As a confrontation brews over the young survivor, Hickok asks Bullock to cover his back in a tension-filled poker game.

1:00AM ET/12:00 C
Tempted

R Time: 95
A rich man (Burt Reynolds) has a plan for testing his new wife's fidelity. He has promised a young man a great deal of money if he will try to seduce her in order to determine whether Lily's love is real. But when Lily finds out about the plan, she deliberately seduces the youth, setting off her husband's murderous instincts...and her own in this thriller full of surprises. With Saffron Burrows (Timecode), Peter Facinelli (The Big Kahuna).

2:40AM ET/1:40 C
Gangster No. 1

R Time: 102
Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind) and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) star in this searing profile of a cold-blooded young criminal who sets his sights on becoming a kingpin--and who will do anything to get there. Also with David Thewlis, Saffron Burrows, Kenneth Cranham and Jamie Foreman. Directed by Paul McGuigan; screenplay by Johnny Ferguson, based on the play by Louis Mellis and David Scinto.

9:30AM ET/8:30 C
Mostly Martha

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Stereo / CCAP
PG 1h 47m
For Martha (Martina Gedeck), the tightly-wound workaholic chef at the center of Sandra Nettelbeck's charming and unsentimental romantic comedy, cooking is the way to effectively relate to others. A skilled and respected professional at a fancy high-end Italian restaurant in Hamburg, Martha lives a solitary life away from her immaculate kitchen. Yet some life-changing surprises are in store when Martha must take custody of her orphaned eight-year-old niece and her professional domain is invaded by an exuberant new sous-chef (Sergio Castelitto).

3:00PM ET/2:00 C
Once Bitten

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
PG13 1h 33m
Phenomenally funny comic actor Jim Carrey ("Dumb and Dumber," "Bruce Almighty") makes his big-screen debut with this horror comedy about a female vampire (Lauren Hutton) seeking the three male virgins whose blood she needs to drink in order to maintain her immortality. Cleavon Little and Robert Klein costar in this biting farce.

4:35PM ET/3:35 C
It Runs In The Family

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Stereo
PG 1h 26m
The long-awaited follow-up to 1983's "A Christmas Story" moves out of winter to chronicle one unforgettable summer in Parker family history--including feuding hillbilly neighbors, killer spinning tops and the great "gravy boat rebellion." Nostalgic comedy with Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen and Kieran Culkin, based on the writings of author Jean Shepherd, who also narrates.

8:00PM ET/7:00 C
Bowling for Columbine

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Stereo / CCAP
R 2h 0m
Director and star Michael Moore ("Roger & Me") stirred up controversy - and won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature - with this dissection of America's fascination with firearms, a skillful work of agitprop that is by turns infuriating, disturbing and hilarious as the rotund host gets a free gun with his new bank account, pays an impromptu visit to NRA chief Charlton Heston, and visits with a survivor of the Columbine High School shootings.

1:00AM ET/12:00 C
Homegrown

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Dolby Digital 5.1 / CCAP
R 1h 42m
A trio of pot-smoking stoners (Billy Bob Thornton, Hank Azaria and Ryan Phillippe) witness their boss's murder, then decide to take over his operations for themselves in this dark comedy costarring John Lithgow, Kelly Lynch and Jon Bon Jovi. Featuring cameos from Ted Danson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Judge Reinhold.

5:45AM ET/4:45 C
It Runs In The Family

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Stereo
PG 1h 26m
The long-awaited follow-up to 1983's "A Christmas Story" moves out of winter to chronicle one unforgettable summer in Parker family history--including feuding hillbilly neighbors, killer spinning tops and the great "gravy boat rebellion." Nostalgic comedy with Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen and Kieran Culkin, based on the writings of author Jean Shepherd, who also narrates.

7:30AM ET/6:30 C
Blank Check

A young boy's bike is run over by a money-laundering con man and a blank check falls into his hands. He decides to go on a spending spree.

1:00PM ET/12:00 C
The Long Kiss Goodnight

Samuel L. Jackson stars as a private detective who helps a small town working mom uncover her forgotten past and escape from assassins.

9:00PM ET/8:00 C
Knockaround Guys

The sons of some well known New York mobsters try to make a name for themselves in a sleepy Montana town.

10:35PM ET/9:35 C
The Long Kiss Goodnight

Samuel L. Jackson stars as a private detective who helps a small town working mom uncover her forgotten past and escape from assassins.

3:50AM ET/2:50 C
Knockaround Guys

The sons of some well known New York mobsters try to make a name for themselves in a sleepy Montana town.

5:30AM ET/4:30 C
The Emperor's Club

A professor's life is changed when he gets a rebellious new student. Starring Kevin Kline.

8:50AM ET/7:50 C
Two Bits

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Stereo / CCAP
PG13 1h 24m
In Depression-era South Philly, young Gennaro (Jerry Barrone in his acting debut) lives with his mother and grandfather (Al Pacino), a sickly old man always predicting he'll die soon. Covering just one day, the film follows the boy's dogged efforts to snag a single quarter - the two bits - for that night's glamorous picture show. James Foley, director of 1992's "Glengarry Glen Ross," takes on a more warm-souled story, with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Joanna Merlin also starring.

1:45PM ET/12:45 C
Deuces Wild

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Dolby Digital 5.1 / CCAP
R 1h 37m
From the director of "The Basketball Diaries" comes this blazing drama about New York street gang warfare circa 1958. After their brother died of a drug overdose, Deuces gang members Leon (Stephen Dorff) and Bobby (Brad Renfro) vowed to keep narcotics off their Brooklyn turf - but during a sweltering summer of violence and conflict with a rival outfit called the Vipers theirs is an increasingly tough promise to keep. Matt Dillon, Fairuza Balk, Drea De Matteo, Vincent Pastore, Frankie Muniz and James Franco costar in this pulpy period picture.

6:35PM ET/5:35 C
Two Bits

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Stereo / CCAP
PG13 1h 24m
In Depression-era South Philly, young Gennaro (Jerry Barrone in his acting debut) lives with his mother and grandfather (Al Pacino), a sickly old man always predicting he'll die soon. Covering just one day, the film follows the boy's dogged efforts to snag a single quarter - the two bits - for that night's glamorous picture show. James Foley, director of 1992's "Glengarry Glen Ross," takes on a more warm-souled story, with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Joanna Merlin also starring.

8:00PM ET/7:00 C
Deuces Wild

WIDESCREEN OAR HDTV
Dolby Digital 5.1 / CCAP
R 1h 37m
From the director of "The Basketball Diaries" comes this blazing drama about New York street gang warfare circa 1958. After their brother died of a drug overdose, Deuces gang members Leon (Stephen Dorff) and Bobby (Brad Renfro) vowed to keep narcotics off their Brooklyn turf - but during a sweltering summer of violence and conflict with a rival outfit called the Vipers theirs is an increasingly tough promise to keep. Matt Dillon, Fairuza Balk, Drea De Matteo, Vincent Pastore, Frankie Muniz and James Franco costar in this pulpy period picture.

4:30AM ET/3:30 C
Two Bits

WIDESCREEN OAR UPCONV
Stereo / CCAP
PG13 1h 24m
In Depression-era South Philly, young Gennaro (Jerry Barrone in his acting debut) lives with his mother and grandfather (Al Pacino), a sickly old man always predicting he'll die soon. Covering just one day, the film follows the boy's dogged efforts to snag a single quarter - the two bits - for that night's glamorous picture show. James Foley, director of 1992's "Glengarry Glen Ross," takes on a more warm-souled story, with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Joanna Merlin also starring.

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