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Comet is coming to dish plus numerous other changes on this week's James long uplink report

 

[Peter Parker]

Comet is a good addition if you like cheesy low budget Sci Fi (e.g. Mars Needs Women, Invasion of the Star Cretures)with an occasional gem 9blaula, Sleeper and Troll 2)thrown in . But I wish they would add some diginets I can't get.​

 

[Juan]

Comet is a good addition if you like cheesy low budget Sci Fi (e.g. Mars Needs Women, Invasion of the Star Cretures)with an occasional gem 9blaula, Sleeper and Troll 2)thrown in . But I wish they would add some diginets I can't get.​

Do you have a roku?

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[ekilgus]

You would think with all the available bandwidth from HBO/Cinemax channels that are gone for good they would add Comet in HD. Apparently not.

 

[Cheddar_Head]

You would think with all the available bandwidth from HBO/Cinemax channels that are gone for good they would add Comet in HD. Apparently not.

Why? It's all old SD .....stuff anyway isn't it? All those "diginets" are a waste of satellite bandwidth. Ducking now.

 

[TheKrell]

Why? It's all old SD .....stuff anyway isn't it? All those "diginets" are a waste of satellite bandwidth. Ducking now.

I thought a lot of the old stuff was shot on 16mm film.

 

[ekilgus]

Why? It's all old SD .....stuff anyway isn't it? All those "diginets" are a waste of satellite bandwidth. Ducking now.

No it isn't all old SD stuff. Just like ME TV, there's also a lot of wide screen stuff that would benefit from being broadcast in HD, or at least HD Lite. I have ME TV available on a sub channel broadcast in 720p and it looks good. That said, Dish does a pretty decent job with ME TV on 247 in SD thanks to that anamorphic lens stuff.

 

[bluegras]

in my own opinion time for dish to add the rest of our channels that broadcast in high def and lets get working on adding those SES satellite ultra 4k HD channels fulltime.also add plutotv and xumotv as applications on the hopper 3 for us cord cutters.

 

[Juan]

I thought a lot of the old stuff was shot on 16mm film.

Has to be remastered

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[Cheddar_Head]

Has to be remastered

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If the original film even exists to use as a source for a new scan.

 

[Juan]

If the original film even exists to use as a source for a new scan.

You mean shows like hogans heros which were remastered to hd 10 years ago? Unfortuantly many of 70s and 80s shows were video tape and cannot be converted as easy

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[mwdxer1]

Good channel. Already get it OTA and streaming

You would think with all the available bandwidth from HBO/Cinemax channels that are gone for good they would add Comet in HD. Apparently not.

Most of the diginets (Get TV, Grit, etc) are only in SD. METV is one of the few that is in HD OTA. KATU Portland runs METV on 2.2 in 720p. I was watching some old material this week from the 60s/70s that was in SD Video tape and the pq is not the best compared of today's video. Earlier video tape was fuzzy. Try freezing it and blowing up the picture. Some of it is terrible. But video tape was cheaper than film. By the 90s, HD video tape hit the industry and that video is much better. When TV went from film to video tape, the pq really went down.

 

[Juan]

Good channel. Already get it OTA and streaming


Most of the diginets (Get TV, Grit, etc) are only in SD. METV is one of the few that is in HD OTA. KATU Portland runs METV on 2.2 in 720p. I was watching some old material this week from the 60s/70s that was in SD Video tape and the pq is not the best compared of today's video. Earlier video tape was fuzzy. Try freezing it and blowing up the picture. Some of it is terrible. But video tape was cheaper than film. By the 90s, HD video tape hit the industry and that video is much better. When TV went from film to video tape, the pq really went down.

60s and early 70s there was no video tape

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[JSheridan]

OTA Comet is 16:9 and kind of HD here.

 

[Howard Simmons]

Kind of HD is SD

 

[JSheridan]

Kind of HD is SD

They say it's 720 but I'm not convinced. The commercials look clear.

 

[Bobby]

My OTA Comet is not widescreen. It doesn’t look bad though.

 

[DJ Lon]

You would think with all the available bandwidth from HBO/Cinemax channels that are gone for good they would add Comet in HD. Apparently not.

and Univision too

 

[DJ Lon]

Why? It's all old SD .....stuff anyway isn't it? All those "diginets" are a waste of satellite bandwidth. Ducking now.

I disagree. I'm located at the digital cliff of my locals and can't receive some of them so I have to sub to Dish's locals and the addition of the national feed diginets are icing on the cake. I'm not ashamed to admit I enjoy watching Buzzr, MeTV and the like. Comet will be a welcome addition as I already watch it on Stirr.

 

[Jim S.]

60s and early 70s there was no video tape

There was, but it was so expensive that a lot of tapes got re-used after the recordings had served their purpose.