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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:58:40 -0700
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On 3/12/24 11:12 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> On 3/11/24 7:49 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 3/10/24 11:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>
>>>>> TRACKER
>>>
>>>>> No, not this silly uncredited remake that Adam is watching starring Green
>>>>> Aquaman.
>>>
>>>>> The one and only original series from 2001, starring the Highlander versus
>>>>> the vampire from Forever Knight!
>>>
>>>>> An incredibly goofy one season wonder from Canadia's space channel.
>>>
>>>>> Adrian Paul is Daggon, a.k.a. Cole a prison guard from Cirron who comes to
>>>>> earth chasing 218 prisoners that the Evil Zin released and came exactly 100
>>>>> light years (sometimes it's 100,000,000 light years) from their planet SAR
>>>>> TOP in the Migar solar system. . . .
>>>
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>> On Freevee and other services. Freevee seems to have the running order
>>>>> right; Ian's IMDb episode listing is completely wrong, based on people
>>>>> leaving the series and their storylines being wrapped up.
>>>
>>>>> Fred-Bob sez "check it out!"
>>>
>>>> I asked Anim, but it sounds like this series is in SDTV, not HDTV, which
>>>> is a turnoff to me...  [shrug]
>>>
>>>> P.S. I never saw this on Sci-Fi when it originally aired. In fact, I
>>>> don't even remember that it existed!!
>>>
>>> I remember this. Adrian Paul was quite laconic. I have no idea why you'd
>>> want to see this in HD. As you point out often enough, there's an
>>> inadequate signal level to upgrade. The special effects didn't look all
>>> that brilliant at the time and they won't improve output as HD.
>>
>> 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.