HDTV Listings for August 14, 2006
By Richard Lawler 
posted Aug 14th 2006 4:29PM
posted Aug 14th 2006 4:29PM
What we're watching: No HD for ABC tonight, as they have cancelled yet another HD reality show, and Monday Night Football has moved over to ESPN. Psych returns for another go on NBC, but given the low quality of last weeks episode, you may want to skip. Showtime brings not only Weeds (season premiere) & Brotherhood, but a double dose of Bill Murray with Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day.Our traditional high-def listings continue below.
Here are some other HDTV programs showing on selected networks today. All times are Eastern and reruns are in italics, season premieres in bold:
ABC (720p): One Ocean View (10 p.m.)
CBS (1080i): Two and a Half Men (8 & 9 p.m.), How I Met Your Mother (8:30 p.m.), New Adventures of Old Christine (9:30 p.m.), CSI: Miami (10 p.m.), The Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m.)
NBC (1080i): Psych (8 p.m.), Medium (10 p.m.), The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35 p.m.)
Fox (720p): Zip.
UPN (1080i): One on One (8 p.m.), All of Us (8:30 p.m.), Girlfriends (9 p.m.), Half & Half (9:30 p.m.)
WB (1080i): Nada.
Discovery-HD (1080i): Iconoclasts (6 p.m.), Profiles of Nature: Badgers: Dishing the Dirt (7 p.m.), Baby Human (8 & 11 p.m.), Amber Room: Lost in Time (9 & 10 p.m.)
TNT-HD (1080i): Law & Order (6 & 8 p.m.), Without a Trace (7 p.m.), The Closer (9 & 11 p.m.), Saved (10 p.m.)
ESPN-HD (720p): SportsCenter (6 & 11 p.m.), Monday Night Countdown (7 p.m.), Monday Night Football: Raiders at Vikings (8 p.m.)
INHD (1080i): London Live! (6 & 6:30 p.m.), That Thing You Do! (7 p.m.), Pink Floyd: The Wall (9 p.m.)
INHD2 (1080i): Twilight Zone (7 & 7:30 p.m.), Laura McKenzie's Traveler (8 p.m.), Aussie Wine Trail (8:30 p.m.), Forensic Factor (9 p.m.), An Evening with James Blunt (10 p.m.), Wine Trails of Italy (11 p.m.), In Theaters (11:30 p.m.)
HDNet (1080i): True Music (7 p.m.), Smart Travels Europe (7:30 p.m.), Smallville (8 & 11 p.m.), Joan of Arcadia (9 & 10 p.m.)
HDNet Movies (1080i): The Dead Pool (6:35 p.m.), This Boy's Life (8:15 p.m.), Bird (10:15 p.m.)
HBO-HD (1080i): Kingdom of Heaven (8 p.m.), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (10:30 p.m.)
Showtime-HD (1080i): Ghostbusters (6:30 p.m.), Groundhog Day (8:15 p.m.), Weeds (10 & 10:30 p.m.), Brotherhood (11 p.m.)
MAX-HD (1080i): Clear and Present Danger (5:30 p.m.), Red Eye (8 p.m.), Monster-in-Law (10 p.m.)
STZ HD (1080i): The Fog (11:10 p.m.)
WhoHOO! Weeds Season Premier!
Kornheiser on MNF, there's nothing else. I'll Tivo Weeds.
Ugh! They cancelled One Ocean View? Was I the only one watching? It wasn't bad It's just the Real World for 30-somethings. In fact it's made by the same people.
Since it's summer and there's nothing else on, I really wish they would have left it on the air. The ONLY problem with the show is that they buried it at 10pm.
Maybe MTV will pick it up.
Are all of these movies just played from a DVD, or do the broadcasters have special copies using some proprietary format to send out true 1080i versions of these movies? I see that some are 16:9 and other are the original dimensions. Do the studios do the transfers for these? I wonder if they have format wars on the backend?
Maybe someone that reads these forums will have some answers. :)
-Ellery
Hey! I like Psych! Aren't you too young to know about Ghostbusters?!?!