My Little Pony Centipede

[captqitn]

Good morning y'all!

[Tripp]

murn

[captqitn]

We went to a sushi bar last night and to avoid that horrible "Mad Money" show, we asked them to turn on TCM

We were happy to see that North by Northwest was on, but within seconds we both turned to each other making an ick face.    

It was clearly a newly remastered version and playing on a large Hi def screen.    It looked absolutely horrible and wrong.    The clarity was so cranked up that it looked like soap opera video.   Everything was so painfully smooth, the actors looked like hollow mylar balloons, and I would swear to god they somehow increased the frame rate.

The composite shots (like the passing scenery out the car windows) while not exactly convincing in the original, were so awkward in this version that we laughed sake out of our noses everytime they came up.

So, my question is ?     Do y'all know what I'm talking about?    Is this the fault of the remastering?  Blu-Ray?  The television itself?

[captqitn]

If its not obvious, I don't have blu-ray or HD tv at home.     The only time I see it is watching baseball in bars.

[captqitn]

That is some tasty Steve Hackett guitar work.   

(the Kansas dude kinda turns me off.    I can hear that technically he has a great voice.  He just doesn't strike me as terribly sincere-sounding.)

[Tripp]

you ain't wrong.

[Tripp]

as a kid I even had Kansas side-project albums... Steve Walsh had a band called Streets (I think)..

[Tripp]

We saw a Mike and the Mechanics video last night and I pointed out to S_____ that Paul Carrack was singing. She flipped out and hadn't even known that it was a Mike Rutherford thing.. So I got on the youtube and bored her with  various Genesis side-projects.. (though to be fair, Hackett's stuff was post-genesis for him)

[Tripp]

I think it may have been on that same Hackett record but Richie Havens sang with him on a few things..

[captqitn]

Whoah.   That sounds like a strange mix.

[Doctor Rock]

We went to a sushi bar last night and to avoid that horrible "Mad Money" show, we asked them to turn on TCM

We were happy to see that North by Northwest was on, but within seconds we both turned to each other making an ick face.   

It was clearly a newly remastered version and playing on a large Hi def screen.    It looked absolutely horrible and wrong.    The clarity was so cranked up that it looked like soap opera video.   Everything was so painfully smooth, the actors looked like hollow mylar balloons, and I would swear to god they somehow increased the frame rate.

The composite shots (like the passing scenery out the car windows) while not exactly convincing in the original, were so awkward in this version that we laughed sake out of our noses everytime they came up.

So, my question is ?     Do y'all know what I'm talking about?    Is this the fault of the remastering?  Blu-Ray?  The television itself?

Probably the remastering, maybe the TV.  Did you adjust the colour?

By the way, I have a DVD copy of that, and it plays fine on my TV.  Certain things were not meant for high def.

[Bizarro]

We went to a sushi bar last night and to avoid that horrible "Mad Money" show, we asked them to turn on TCM

We were happy to see that North by Northwest was on, but within seconds we both turned to each other making an ick face.   

It was clearly a newly remastered version and playing on a large Hi def screen.    It looked absolutely horrible and wrong.    The clarity was so cranked up that it looked like soap opera video.   Everything was so painfully smooth, the actors looked like hollow mylar balloons, and I would swear to god they somehow increased the frame rate.

The composite shots (like the passing scenery out the car windows) while not exactly convincing in the original, were so awkward in this version that we laughed sake out of our noses everytime they came up.

So, my question is ?     Do y'all know what I'm talking about?    Is this the fault of the remastering?  Blu-Ray?  The television itself?

I'm not the most knowledgeable about remastering, but my recollection of NbNW is that it had some overly shiny retro-Hollywood lighting in some of the day scenes anyway. And yeah, with the dated composite shots. So I would more or less expect some of these flaws to be magnified in an HD remastering.

Like Dan says, not everything really ought to be HD.

[Bizarro]

One of the things that was noteworthy to Matilda and me when we finally got our HD TV a while back was that it altered our opinions on the looks of some actors.

The chick who plays the lead on Grey's Anatomy, for instance, has crappy skin in a way that makes her look much more ordinary in HD.

George Clooney, on the other hand, might even be better looking in HD, which just doesn't seem fair.

[Moetown]

I know I might be going out on a limb here, but The Bachelorette has to be one of the worst shows ever. Who are these people and why does anyone watch that dreck?

[captqitn]

One of the things that was noteworthy to Matilda and me when we finally got our HD TV a while back was that it altered our opinions on the looks of some actors.

The chick who plays the lead on Grey's Anatomy, for instance, has crappy skin in a way that makes her look much more ordinary in HD.

George Clooney, on the other hand, might even be better looking in HD, which just doesn't seem fair.

Thats funny, because he famously doesn't wear any make-up.