Lord of the Rings trilogy....

[bnewt]

Were these in HD? How did they look?

 

[wkomorow]

Looked ok, but there were sound problems on Sunday. In fact the breakup got so bad that I needed to turn it off.

 

[Hall]

They didn't appeared as zoomed-in as they have previously. I still prefer the DVD myself...

 

[treiher]

They didn't appeared as zoomed-in as they have previously. I still prefer the DVD myself...

I agree, I think my standard def. DVD with an upconverting DVD player using HDMI looks better than what I saw on last night.

Also had the same audio problems, but they only last a few minutes.

 

[bnewt]

Too bad...........would have hoped that they would have been better. IMO, this is why more people haven't moved to HD.............not enough quality programing. I know that is why I haven't

 

[alexgmny]

Which channel showed them? TNTHD? TBSHD? I hope HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, StarzHD, or HDNETmovies show the Lord of the Rings Triglogy.

 

[ajmiarka]

Which channel showed them? TNTHD? TBSHD? I hope HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, StarzHD, or HDNETmovies show the Lord of the Rings Triglogy.

It was TNTHD I believe.

 

[mattopia]

It was TNTHD I believe.

Yes it was.

I noticed lip sync issues, as I almost always do on TNT -- but they were less of an issue than they have been in the past.

 

[Coop1979]

I thought the picture looked great on Time Warner, and I didn't have any lip-sync issues.

I still hate TWC, but LOTR looked great for me this weekend.

 

[twd3lr]

The problem with TNT broadcasting these in HD is that the LOTR movies were filmed in anamorphic 2.35:1 aspect ratio, which TNT butchers by zooming in in order to not receive complaints about the black bars above and below the picture (to make it 16:9). It absolutely drove me nuts trying to watch it; I'll stick with my extended version DVDs, tyvm.

 

[richiephx]

They also butcher movies with their pop ups and banners and animations during the program. TNT Networks suck.