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Comedy Central to air Friends in true HD

No really, true HD and 16:9. Honestly. (August 2011)

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TV Monkey
VirginMediaPhil posted:
David posted:
VirginMediaPhil posted:
TV Monkey posted:
VirginMediaPhil posted:


They were showing the 16:9 programmes in the OAR with letterboxing that could be fixed using the TV's zoom feature.


Massively compromising the quality of the image in the process.


Well not any more than the already compromised picture quality of digitally compressed satellite channels.


Of course more. You are taking the compromised picture quality of a digitally compressed satellite channel and making it worse.


Not by much though. It looks the same to me.


It must be your eyes then as of course zooming into an image degrades the picture quality, regardless of the original source.
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ManicPumpkin
I don't know if this has already been covered but "The One With the Free Porn" aired on Comedy Central earlier.

I believe the episode wasn't ever shown on E4.
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VMPhil
TV Monkey posted:
VirginMediaPhil posted:
David posted:
VirginMediaPhil posted:
TV Monkey posted:
VirginMediaPhil posted:


They were showing the 16:9 programmes in the OAR with letterboxing that could be fixed using the TV's zoom feature.


Massively compromising the quality of the image in the process.


Well not any more than the already compromised picture quality of digitally compressed satellite channels.


Of course more. You are taking the compromised picture quality of a digitally compressed satellite channel and making it worse.


Not by much though. It looks the same to me.


It must be your eyes then as of course zooming into an image degrades the picture quality, regardless of the original source.


As far as I know I have perfect eyesight - the image only softens, I must have a very good TV.
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besty
DavidB1996 posted:
I don't know if this has already been covered but "The One With the Free Porn" aired on Comedy Central earlier.

I believe the episode wasn't ever shown on E4.


It was, but only a handful of times after 9pm.
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JasonB
Does anyone know the actual name of the font used in the titles or was it custom made for the show? I know there's lookalikes out there but they don't come as close.
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VMPhil
JasonB posted:
Does anyone know the actual name of the font used in the titles or was it custom made for the show? I know there's lookalikes out there but they don't come as close.


They're both custom fonts, but I think the font they used for the first 5 seasons are custom script for each name, as they all look slightly different to each other. From season 6 onwards though they used a similar but smaller font, that isn't different on each name.

10 days later

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JasonB
Has anyone bought the new "Extended Cut" DVD's that were released in the UK last year? Are they really "extended"?
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littlesmegger
VirginMediaPhil posted:
But if you were to watch Scrubs on Comedy Central SD, it would be cropped to 14:9. Therefore we are actually losing some of the picture whereas before at least we got all the picture on both widescreen and 4:3 shows.


Slight tangent sorry but this has reminded me, when Season 8 of Scrubs was filmed in HD and then released on both Bluray and DVD, the bluray remains at 16:9 ratio, where as the DVD has been pointlessly cropped to 4:3 even though that would probably take more effort than just using SD copies at 16:9... what reason would there be for diminishing the ratio of something like that?
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davidhorman
littlesmegger posted:
Slight tangent sorry but this has reminded me, when Season 8 of Scrubs was filmed in HD and then released on both Bluray and DVD, the bluray remains at 16:9 ratio, where as the DVD has been pointlessly cropped to 4:3 even though that would probably take more effort than just using SD copies at 16:9... what reason would there be for diminishing the ratio of something like that?


My uneducated guess is that they would have had the two versions for HD/SD channels, and it was (marginally) quicker/easier/more seductive to plop the cropped SD version straight onto DVD. Was it a similar situation with audio - 5.1 on Bluray, stereo on DVD?

David
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remlap
davidhorman posted:
littlesmegger posted:
Slight tangent sorry but this has reminded me, when Season 8 of Scrubs was filmed in HD and then released on both Bluray and DVD, the bluray remains at 16:9 ratio, where as the DVD has been pointlessly cropped to 4:3 even though that would probably take more effort than just using SD copies at 16:9... what reason would there be for diminishing the ratio of something like that?


My uneducated guess is that they would have had the two versions for HD/SD channels, and it was (marginally) quicker/easier/more seductive to plop the cropped SD version straight onto DVD. Was it a similar situation with audio - 5.1 on Bluray, stereo on DVD?

David


The reasoning from Disney was the other seven seasons are in 4:3 Rolling Eyes

One day Scrubs may get a transfer to either 4:3 or 16:9 HD since it was filmed on Super16mm with protection for 16:9 aspect ratio from day one. But that would mean rescanning and editing the episodes together.
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Jonny
littlesmegger posted:
Slight tangent sorry but this has reminded me, when Season 8 of Scrubs was filmed in HD and then released on both Bluray and DVD, the bluray remains at 16:9 ratio, where as the DVD has been pointlessly cropped to 4:3 even though that would probably take more effort than just using SD copies at 16:9... what reason would there be for diminishing the ratio of something like that?

I've happened upon E4 broadcasting 16:9 episodes from S8 in 4:3 also, perhaps this was done in the initial SD transfers for US broadcast reasons?
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remlap
Jonny posted:
littlesmegger posted:
Slight tangent sorry but this has reminded me, when Season 8 of Scrubs was filmed in HD and then released on both Bluray and DVD, the bluray remains at 16:9 ratio, where as the DVD has been pointlessly cropped to 4:3 even though that would probably take more effort than just using SD copies at 16:9... what reason would there be for diminishing the ratio of something like that?

I've happened upon E4 broadcasting 16:9 episodes from S8 in 4:3 also, perhaps this was done in the initial SD transfers for US broadcast reasons?


Yet RTÉ2 aired it in 16:9 from get go for Season 8 before E4. All very odd.

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