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Oscar's in HD
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Posted by: JimSpence

Did you watch in HD and how did you like it?

I thought the HD presentation was very good.

I thought of making this a poll, but there are too many for the Oscar's now. :D

Posted by: SnakeEyes

Not sure of the response you will get here. Check out the AVS HD forums.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/foru...ne=30&forumid=6

Posted by: TeeSee

Someday I want to see Charleze Theron in HD. Did she look fantastic tonight or what? And that was in SD for me.

Posted by: TiVoPony

The Oscars looked great in HD. :D

Pony

Posted by: jones07

quote:
Originally posted by TiVoPony
The Oscars looked great in HD. :D

Pony

Ditto :up:

Posted by: Marco

quote:
Originally posted by TiVoPony
The Oscars looked great in HD. :D

Pony

And you realize, folks, Pony was probably recording the Oscars in HD. :mad: :p :D His silence in response (NDA etc) will indicate confirmation!

Posted by: zaknafein

quote:
Originally posted by Marco
And you realize, folks, Pony was probably recording the Oscars in HD. :mad: :p :D His silence in response (NDA etc) will indicate confirmation!

I guarantee it. RB used to do that. He'd pop into live chat for about 20 seconds, only to make some snide comment like "I have this strange DTiVo. It has these funny little USB ports on the back..." then go away.

TiVo is evil that way. :)

Posted by: efilippi

For me, the real question is 'was the hd presentation so much better than sd that it was worth giving up all the TIVO plusses, like being able to skip over alllll the boring parts?" No way.

I watched tivo until we caugh up to live at about 9:45, then switched to HD.

Tivo SD is far better than live HD. No contest.

Posted by: FourFourSeven

quote:
Originally posted by TeeSee
Someday I want to see Charleze Theron in HD. Did she look fantastic tonight or what? And that was in SD for me.

I thought she looked...orange. And that was in HD. I thought the television was set up screwy, but she was the only orange-looking person. Very strange.

Posted by: TiVoPony

quote:
Originally posted by Marco
And you realize, folks, Pony was probably recording the Oscars in HD. :mad: :p :D His silence in response (NDA etc) will indicate confirmation!

Probably? Of course I recorded it, in all it's HD glory! :D

Pony

Posted by: Marco

quote:
Originally posted by TiVoPony
Probably? Of course I recorded it, in all it's HD glory! :D

Pony

:cool: Very cool. And next year, I will too! :D

Posted by: JimSpence

Charlize looked slightly orange to me as well. But, during a red carpet interview it was mentioned that she was tanned.

And, the lack of TiVo didn't really bother me, as the HD was great.

Posted by: DLiquid

Charlize was definitely orange. Not a good look, IMO.

I didn't watch in HD, because there is just WAY too much filler in a show like this. I watched three pre-shows and the entire Oscars during the time it would have taken to watch the Oscars live. Next year I'll watch on TiVo and in HD. :)

Posted by: billypritchard

My plan that worked pretty well was to watch in HD. Then, when the boring parts started, I would bring up the Picture-in-Picture, swap over to TiVo and catch some Dream Job that was recording. When the boring parts ended, I would pause the TiVo and swap back.

Then repeat anytime necessary. Thus I enjoyed some TiVo and the beautiful people in HD at the same time...

I'm not a big Angelina Jolie fan, but...wow.

Posted by: grecorj

Weird -- watched the Oscars on WABC-7 on DirecTV -- just a SD feed. But the clips they'd show -- ie, the memorials -- were obviously in widescreen, as the sides were cut off. Anyone else experience this? It's like they didn't prepare a SD version of the clips...

Posted by: DLiquid

quote:
Originally posted by grecorj
Weird -- watched the Oscars on WABC-7 on DirecTV -- just a SD feed. But the clips they'd show -- ie, the memorials -- were obviously in widescreen, as the sides were cut off. Anyone else experience this? It's like they didn't prepare a SD version of the clips...

I noticed this. I think that in a way it's great. It shows they were more focused on the HD presentation than the SD one. Sometimes with live HD stuff, it seems like the other way around.

I still think it was a mistake. It wouldn't have been difficult to shift the text a little toward the center for both HD and SD.

Posted by: Azlen

On our local station, the style "expert" said Charlize's orange tan made her look like an Oompa Loompa.

Posted by: Supfreak26

quote:
Originally posted by grecorj
Weird -- watched the Oscars on WABC-7 on DirecTV -- just a SD feed. But the clips they'd show -- ie, the memorials -- were obviously in widescreen, as the sides were cut off. Anyone else experience this? It's like they didn't prepare a SD version of the clips...

I noticed this too and was a little bothered by it. HD is not the norm right now and should not be treated as such. A vast majority of us folks do not have HD and do not plan on converting to HD anytime soon due to the cost. This was a slap to the face to us poor folks who can't afford the big fancy TV's.

Posted by: Spire

quote:
Originally posted by Supfreak26
I noticed this too and was a little bothered by it.

Me too. Shoulda been letterboxed.

Posted by: cwoody222

I already asked this over in the AVS forum topic about it with no replies :(

Does anyone have any screenshots of the HD broadcast? I'm hearding it was really nice.