Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:27:07 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:27:07 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="30250a25a01d60050efc90c451c82eaf"; logging-data="665368"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ez80gGYWWG3ots+nhrSKtSVBBU9Hma4U=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:OY3PhZ2w7+r9KmOgxfih+u+XbHA= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2747 Ian J. Ball wrote: >On 3/12/24 6:37 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>Ian J. Ball wrote: >>>On 3/12/24 11:12 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>Ian J. Ball wrote: >>>>>>. . . >>>>>Because SD looks like s**t on an 4k TV. >>>>>IOW, not just the "FX", but *everything*!! >>>>>I would have figured by 2002 that most everything was filming in HD - >>>>>"...Jules Verne" had done so 3 years prior, and even shows on The WB, >>>>>like "Babes of Prey" from the year previous, were filmed in HD. >>>>>But I guess it took until c.2005 before everything, even stuff like >>>>>"Tracker", was filmed in HD. >>>>Huh? >>>IOW, even through 2005, a lot of stuff was still filmed in SD. It wasn't >>>until 2005 that even low-rent stuff like "Tracker" was filmed in HD. >>Filmed in SD? That's not how it works. That's not how any of it works. >>The premiere color Western television series for the late 1950s and >>early 1960s were filmed on 35 mm film, just like movies. Some were in >>Technicolor. Even b&w filmed tv series were filmed on 35 mm movie film. >>By the mid to late '60s, they were using cheaper Eastman Color, which >>faded after three years or so. >>I just looked up Tracker: Super 16 mm Arriflex system. That's why it >>looked like crap. >>That's a method of television production that got worse. >>I'm not sure what we count as the first tv series videoed, not filmed, >>that didn't look like crap. Not The Secret Life of Jules Verne. >"CSI"? CSI was filmed for 16:9, I think from the beginning. Various Panavision cameras, 35 mm film >"Babes of Prey"? 4:3 Arricam ST and Arricam 435. Both are 35 mm film systems. >I doubt either were "filmed", but both were HD. Both were filmed. Ian, you're not listening.