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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 01:37:19 -0000 (UTC)
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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>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.

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.