HD Net understands something
By Matt Burns 
posted October 24th 2005 10:32AM
posted October 24th 2005 10:32AM
HDNet has changed the way I watch TV. We all know high definition is great, but I never knew that Hogans Heroes was just as good! No really, I love this show and will sit down to watch it every chance I can at 2:30 p.m.. I would have never watched this show if it wasn't in HD but now that is, I watch it all the time.
In fact, this is a good way to get more high-def programming in lieu of the real stuff. Put M*A*S*H or even The Brady Bunch in HD and I will watch it. Put Happy Days or Mork and Mindy and I will watch that too. I believe that I'd watch any of these programs in high-def instead of new prime time shows that are not in HD.
Until some of these other shows come on I guess that we will just hang with the Colonel Hogan and the gang.
That just doesn't make sense at all. So an upconverted show from the 60s is now better than something current? This is why I think most HD programing is a sham and why I'm perfectly happy with my upconverting DVD player.
Is it just upconverted? Or was it originally shot in film, and remastered to HD?
Hogans Heros was originally shot in film and then remastered in HD. This is not a simple up-conversion process but rather a lengthy and time-consuming ordeal. But the end result is obvious. It looks great.
What people fail to realize is that things shot in film are of much higher resolution/quality than even HD supports. Granted, a show from the 60s might not be as good as something shot now. But, the point is, it's not upconverting. It's transferring from one medium to another. In this case, it's being transferred to HD which is keeping more of the original detail compared to the original SD transfer where a lot of the details were lost. People always seem to be confused with how you can have an HD version of a show or movie that was created before HD. The reason is because analog SD TV was/is WAY worse quality than what those shows/movies were originally shot in.
A new transfer of course from film (duh). Still though, you're watching HD in a 4x3 window right? Or did they actually film it widescreen originally? Or do they crop a 16x9 frame? Would really like to see some Original Series Star Trek.
Wouldn't 16mm film be very close to 1080p resolution natively, or would it still be about 1,000 lines of resolution more? I'm basing my estimate considering many report 35mm film to be equal to about 4,000 lines of resolution.