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I can't say I watch enough TV to agree or disagree that these were the Best! TV FX! Evah!
They were really, really good. I'd be willing to buy that they were the "best" judging by whatever technical criteria they had at hand -- higher-quality rendering, etc etc. In a viewer-subjective sense, I'm not sure "best" is a meaningful word.
Are they HDTV good?
Does SciFi broadcast in HD? I can't remember.
Does SciFi broadcast in HD? I can't remember.
No, but BSG is broadcast in HDTV on some other network.
Interesting. I wonder what they shoot on. (It's a tricky question in any case, since there are a bazillion different HD formats, and at least 4 common resolutions.)
[eta: "Feature-quality" would imply a resolution equivalent to 35mm film, which is better than HD. But it's probably just be a poetic turn of phrase -- the article reads like a Zoic press release. NBC, which owns SciFi, broadcasts its HD programming at 1080i.]
I was thinking "this looks like a movie" during the battle scene. And... I dunno, I once raced home from a dinner to see the big fight in B5's "Severed Dreams." Again. But even at the time, that was "cool for TV" -- I didn't have the reaction I did to BG. I dunno if it would hold up perfectly on a big screen, but it was pretty damn impressive.
Some of it was the treatment. That we suddenly jumped into battle and a lot of it was off-screen, which just felt cinematic to me. "You know how this goes, so we're cutting to the important parts." And I assume that doing that let them spend more time on what we did see, which was clever.
I want to watch the 3 parts all in a row, but that means I'll have to set time aside for it. Maybe next weekend.
My widescreen LCD tv died recently. I have never missed it so much (I've been watching on an old 19").
Well, that's incentive for me to haul it to the shop to get fixed....
"Feature-quality" would imply a resolution equivalent to 35mm film
I didn't read "feature-quality" as talking about the resolution, but rather the "realism" and/or "technical sophistication" of the shots.
My widescreen LCD tv died recently.Ow, that's sad. I have a... I can't remember, 28 or 30-inch old timey TV. Which is probably why I was compelled to go sit 2 feet away from it halfway through the ep.
Last summer I sent my old tapes of season 1 to a friend now living in Germany. He emailed this weekend saying he was trying to upgrade iTunes so he could buy the season 2 premiere, because he had to know how the cliffhanger got resolved. So I had the nicely sadistic pleasure of telling him, "The premiere doesn't resolve anything. You should probably just order the 2.0 DVDs." And then he was all, "Really? Not even..." "No, nothing. It takes a few episodes before Adama's even conscious again. You're welcome!"
If I'd been thinking, I'd have recorded one of the marathons for him, but he hadn't seem interested the last time we talked. He must have blown through the first season in a month.
I had to see it without the comentary after having seen it with the commentary.
Is that the few minutes of commentary up at aol.com? Also, where can one find the podcast by the creator-guy (Moore, right?)?