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Why are they not replaying the NEW episodes of Battlestar Galactica on Sunday nights? Is there a SciFi HDchannel available or in the works? It's just sad that the best show on TV is shown in SD.
Battlestar Galactica on Universal HD
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Historically, UniversalHD has not started a new season of Galactica in HD until after that season completely aired in SD on SciFi.
I would love to watch them as first-run HD too... but I gather they get a greater audience via SciFi, and don't want to compete with themselves at the same time... so I watch them on SciFi as first-runs and then I can watch them next year in repeat on UniversalHD.
I would love to watch them as first-run HD too... but I gather they get a greater audience via SciFi, and don't want to compete with themselves at the same time... so I watch them on SciFi as first-runs and then I can watch them next year in repeat on UniversalHD.
Well, second BSG season was just great, the best sci-fi show ever aired (IMHO, of course) and I would enjoy watching it again in HD (may be instead of the disappointing third season). But, but. but... The picture quality is definitely an issue, nothing even close to "2001: A Space Odyssey".HDMe said:
Something is terribly wrong, either they intentionally downgraded resolution or used special filters to mask commander Adama's wrinkles...
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Battlestar Galactica is an interesting experiement in HD... The show is filmed/shot with the idea in mind that we (the viewer) are looking through the eyes of a camera more like a handheld camera that might be used to film a documentary of a war.
Rather than going for pristine sharp clarity like a movie of a war... they are attempting to show what this would look like if it were real and we were watching the war reporters camera shots of what happens.
This essentially means that while the show is shot in HD... the picture quality is often intentionally downgraded so as to give it more of a realistic feel.
I forget where I read this... I didn't make it up, honest
Rather than going for pristine sharp clarity like a movie of a war... they are attempting to show what this would look like if it were real and we were watching the war reporters camera shots of what happens.
This essentially means that while the show is shot in HD... the picture quality is often intentionally downgraded so as to give it more of a realistic feel.
I forget where I read this... I didn't make it up, honest
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I can believe it. And if it is done for artistic reasons I'm fine with it. I'm just a little bummed that the SD PQ isn't all that great, especially after I zoom in to eliminate the letterbox bars. Oh well, I suppose that if I never had watched the re-runs in HD I wouldn't know what I was missing. As far as the 3rd season goes, I'm glad they finally closed up the New Caprica story arc. Let's get back to the rag tag fleet searching for Earth.
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Except for Baltar...I expect his mantra is more like...Virginian said:
So say I me.
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