JeanneCrain Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 Thanks-for-giving - November 22-25 Channels 501-557. Enjoy Quote: "I wish some hot potato would sprinkle some flowers on me" – My Past 1931 💋 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 The same old free reruns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vautrin Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 It's going to take time just to get all the schedules in gear for all those channels, but I did see some new movies that will be available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 Thanks to the OP. I scheduled some stuff earlier today as a result of this thread. Over the four years or so with Directv, I've built up probably about 70-100 movies with these free windows, which helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Watched "Saving Private Ryan" last night, been a while since I seen it unedited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanneCrain Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 Good weekend of movies, one movie I hadn't seen entitled "Bridget Jones's Diary" 2001 had some very pleasing music - so I bought the movie's soundtrack CD, which can be heard on YouTube. I discovered songs such as "Killin' Kind" by Shelby Lynne, "Have You Met Miss Jones" & "Not of This Earth" by Robbie Williams and "Someone Like YOU" by Dina Carroll as well as others - all certainly recommended for those who enjoy music to relax to, while visiting here. 😜 Enjoyed the Movie "War Horse" 2011 as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 I recorded probably about 15 movies out of that weekend. Not bad, none of it it TCM stuff. One interesting thing I noticed is that everything in the HBO and HBO affiliate HD feeds was vertically squashed so that people looked just a bit "fat". Looking into it further, it seems they pad everything they show with horizontal bars, squeezing the picture to what I think might be a 1.85:1 aspect ratio (common for movie theaters). That is what I think, just because 16:9 (also expressed as 1.78:1) is a common home video aspect ratio. So if you were to shoehorn the 1.78:1 inside the 1.85:1, and then stretch it out from side to side to match, then it might distort like that. I still have to verify on an actual video editor, but that is my theory for now anyhow. Really nice that the aspect ratio of TCM's HD feed is usually exactly right. Sometimes the picture is too small, but the proportions are almost always exactly right. Combine that distorted picture with me getting over a cold and taking cold medicine, and missing a yearly Thanksgiving house party with 25 people, it is not really the best combination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vautrin Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 That was a nice gift from DirecTV. The only problem was trying to figure out which movie to watch when you have about twenty or so different channels to choose from. I saw Meet the Fockers, The Invasion, Charlie Wilson's War, E.T., Alien:Covenant and a few more. Alien: Covenant was pretty good, even if a lot of it was just a rehash of the original Alien movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 I 4 hours ago, Vautrin said: That was a nice gift from DirecTV. The only problem was trying to figure out which movie to watch when you have about twenty or so different channels to choose from. I saw Meet the Fockers, The Invasion, Charlie Wilson's War, E.T., Alien:Covenant and a few more. Alien: Covenant was pretty good, even if a lot of it was just a rehash of the original Alien movie. I got E.T. when it was first released on VHS in 1988. Still remember the fanfare about how it's the best anti-pirate copy ever made at the time. The case is a green / black design. I will never part with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Markoff Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Never 'eard of it... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vautrin Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 3 hours ago, hamradio said: I I got E.T. when it was first released on VHS in 1988. Still remember the fanfare about how it's the best anti-pirate copy ever made at the time. The case is a green / black design. I will never part with it. Cool. I had never seen E.T. before, believe it or not. While it certainly is entertaining and Spielberg knows how to push all the buttons it was a little on the thin side for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 2 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said: Never 'eard of it... Recorded it. Got through about twelve minutes of it. Deleted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Markoff Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 ^^ No, I mean I never heard of DTV, Starz, etc... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 23 hours ago, MovieCollectorOH said: I recorded probably about 15 movies out of that weekend. Not bad, none of it it TCM stuff. One interesting thing I noticed is that everything in the HBO and HBO affiliate HD feeds was vertically squashed so that people looked just a bit "fat". Looking into it further, it seems they pad everything they show with horizontal bars, squeezing the picture to what I think might be a 1.85:1 aspect ratio (common for movie theaters). That is what I think, just because 16:9 (also expressed as 1.78:1) is a common home video aspect ratio. So if you were to shoehorn the 1.78:1 inside the 1.85:1, and then stretch it out from side to side to match, then it might distort like that. I still have to verify on an actual video editor, but that is my theory for now anyhow. Really nice that the aspect ratio of TCM's HD feed is usually exactly right. Sometimes the picture is too small, but the proportions are almost always exactly right. Combine that distorted picture with me getting over a cold and taking cold medicine, and missing a yearly Thanksgiving house party with 25 people, it is not really the best combination. Okay I went a bit further in my investigation. My sample movie which HBO played was filmed in 1.85:1 aspect ratio. Modern HDTV and computer monitors have an aspect ratio of 16:9 (also could be expressed as 1.78:1 to compare to theater aspect ratio), not that far off. I cropped out the top and bottom bars from the HBO airing in an editor, leaving just the movie. It came out to 1918 x 812 pixels (within a 1920 x 1080 frame). That is really close to a 2.4:1 aspect ratio (for a movie that was filmed at 1.85:1). Had this been correctly displayed, the video image at 1.85:1 aspect ratio would have been closer to 1920 x 1038 (within the same 1920 x 1080 frame). Instead, the same thing was shown distorted (not chopped off) at 1920 x 812. So that is crushing the movie vertically by about 20%. No, I wasn't imagining things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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