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Reboot
Johnny83 posted:
That's not suprising, when the 1993-1996 series was "new" they showed a 1996 episode amongst the 1994 week & then a 1994 episode amongst the 1996 week.

Ah. (Incidentally, while the second, "new", episode tonight is the same as this afternoon's and I'm not bothering, the first one was different by way of being one of the compilation eps)

Johnny83 posted:
Is Slattery on these early episodes? Apparently he's funnier in his earlier appearance that his latter ones (although I liked his latter appearances)

He's been in a few, yeah. And I'm in the same group as you so I'm not best placed to judge Smile

18 days later

SP
Steve in Pudsey
The picture quality on the current series of Whose Line which Dave is showing is poor, even by UKTV standards. Doesn't look to have been compressed within an inch of its life like usual, jus seems really soft.

Could this be the export version that's been versioned to NTSC and then converted back?
JO
Johnny83
Steve in Pudsey posted:
The picture quality on the current series of Whose Line which Dave is showing is poor, even by UKTV standards. Doesn't look to have been compressed within an inch of its life like usual, jus seems really soft.

Could this be the export version that's been versioned to NTSC and then converted back?


I thought that the other day, the one I saw a bit of had a very NTSC-esq picture, perhaps the original tapes have been lost? Shocked
NW
nwtv2003
The episodes of Whose LIne that have been shown on Dave recently were filmed in New York, so ie filmed in NTSC format and then sent to the UK in NTSC format.

They're currently on the 1991 run and the PQ on the rest of the series is fine, and the 1992 series I've seen on 4oD are pretty much the same PQ.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
That explains it, thanks. I thought it was only the very latest UK series which had been taped in the UK, with Laura Hall providing the music rather than Richard Vranch but it seems series 3 and 4 had bits done in New York too.
NW
nwtv2003
Steve in Pudsey posted:
That explains it, thanks. I thought it was only the very latest UK series which had been taped in the UK, with Laura Hall providing the music rather than Richard Vranch but it seems series 3 and 4 had bits done in New York too.


Yep Series 3 and 4 were taped in New York in the regular WLIIA set, where the Los Angeles episodes in Series 10 were taped in what was the set for the ABC version of WLIIA.

It's a programme that has really grown on me since they started showing it on Dave as I never watched it properly when it was on Channel 4 at the time.

10 days later

JK
JayKingDoire
It was good to see that Dave are now showing the older episodes of Top Gear (2003/2004) in full widescreen and not 14:9 compromise which has been the way for a long time.

I hope UKTV Gold and all the other UKTV channels will follow quickly. It looks like it will take a while for full widescreen on UKTV.
FA
fanoftv
JayKingDoire posted:
It was good to see that Dave are now showing the older episodes of Top Gear (2003/2004) in full widescreen and not 14:9 compromise which has been the way for a long time.

I hope UKTV Gold and all the other UKTV channels will follow quickly. It looks like it will take a while for full widescreen on UKTV.


Yeah I noticed how old the episodes currently showing are when watching yesterday, when they were on about the new style 3 door Astra being unveiled, and when in a report Jeremy filled up at Stafford station, where the price was 82.9p a litre, only a few years ago, but look how quickly its changed, I'd love to pay 82.9p again.
RU
russnet Founding member
fanoftv posted:
JayKingDoire posted:
It was good to see that Dave are now showing the older episodes of Top Gear (2003/2004) in full widescreen and not 14:9 compromise which has been the way for a long time.

I hope UKTV Gold and all the other UKTV channels will follow quickly. It looks like it will take a while for full widescreen on UKTV.


Yeah I noticed how old the episodes currently showing are when watching yesterday, when they were on about the new style 3 door Astra being unveiled, and when in a report Jeremy filled up at Stafford station, where the price was 82.9p a litre, only a few years ago, but look how quickly its changed, I'd love to pay 82.9p again.


Last time I saw 82.9p was at the beginning of 2007 but thats for another thread all together.

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