Nice to see Harry Potter is in OAR. Great PQ, great job CBC.

ya looks really good, better than when ABC showed it (in regular 16:9)

Also sounds great ... lots of LFE!

I was watching Intelligence last night on CBC HD (Rogers 513) and noticed what appeared to be 2 local commercials. For this to happen the CBC would have to be broadcasting the HD version of local Ottawa programming, and Rogers would have to be picking it up somehow. There is not a lot of local programming on the CBC any more except for the 6:00 pm news. I'm going to check that program tonight and see if its the local news on the CBC HD channel here in Ottawa.

It is CBOT-DT Ottawa. It's on their website (http://www.shoprogers.com/store/cable/ptv/programming/channel_lineups2.asp?SystemID=12&province=ON&cityName=12).

Thanks Marc, that one sure sneaked by me. Good news......

That should improve the PQ of the Sens games in SD.

From CBC|Radio-Canada annual report :

"A second HD mobile was approved by the Board of Directors, with a target in-service date of April of 2007."

From CBC|Radio-Canada annual report :

"A second HD mobile was approved by the Board of Directors, with a target in-service date of April of 2007."

Cool! Just in time for the hockey playoffs. Now the big debate is where should it be based? I figure Vancouver since Edmonton and Calgary don't have DTV stations yet and Ottawa and Montreal are both within 5 hours of Toronto, plus being in the same time zone, they typically can't show both games at the same time, thus limiting their audience. Obviously during the playoffs they will move the trucks to wherever they need them.

Thanks Marc, that one sure sneaked by me. Good news......

That should improve the PQ of the Sens games in SD.

If Rogers has started showing CBOT-DT (last time I checked it was still Toronto despite what the website said) then we will not have the option of watching the national HD game if the Sens are on locally in SD on both CBOT and CBOT-DT. I can't see Rogers devoting the bandwidth to giving us multiple feeds of CBC-HD so we can see the few hours of distinct local programing every week.

Just to put things in perspective, the home base of any mobile doesn't really mean much. I've been literally waiting for months to get inside Premiere to do some tests. It's always on the road.

If Rogers has started showing CBOT-DT (last time I checked it was still Toronto despite what the website said) then we will not have the option of watching the national HD game if the Sens are on locally in SD on both CBOT and CBOT-DT.

As stated earlier in this thread, the CRTC gave CBOT permission to show up to 17 hours per week of additional HD programming on CBOT-DT that is not on CBOT-TV. If the national game is in HD, CBOT-DT will typically show it instead of the local game in SD.

Tonight, I tuned in to check out the Fifth Estate in 16:9 at midnight (CBUT-DT OTA) but the picture quality was terrible, is was fuzzy and unwatchable. It looks to me that this was actually a zoomed-in image from the 4:3 version of video again (I have seen this done several times before). All the commercials looked great in comparison (all the text and the studio shot was very fuzzy).
Also on sunday, Harry Potter was great, but the movie before that - Toy Story 2 had really bad PQ, looked like it was upconverted from a realy bad VHS tape or from a video with realy low resolution.

I can't see Rogers devoting the bandwidth to giving us multiple feeds of CBC-HD so we can see the few hours of distinct local programing every week.

I was thinking about this and Rogers might not provide both CBOT-DT (Ottawa) and CBLT-DT (Toronto) any time soon, but they might add CBUT-DT (Vancouver) at some point for time-shifting purposes.

... but they might add CBUT-DT (Vancouver) at some point for time-shifting purposes.Seems odd to me that they haven't already, given that they've added Pacific HD timeshift channels for foreign OTA stations.

The Great Canadian Polar Bear Adventure has some of the worst PQ i've ever seen.

there are certain shots in there that look like a zoom on 320x240 video to make it look widescreen. I'd be embarrased to show something that looks that bad, when HD can look so good.

And whats up with the murder editing of Lampoons Christmas Vacation? (Maybe I missed it, but I didnt catch a message at the beginnign that its been edited for tv viewing, all I saw was a warning cause of coarse language)

20 minutes in and its already missing tons...

:(

at least it's in WS. wasn't expecting that.

LOTR: Return of the King looked pretty damn good (for broadcast). some of the smokey/foggy scenes had alot of noise, but otherwise, it's right up there with the best TMN and CITYTV flicks.

on a side note, i think the hi-def detail made all the ADRing (voice subbing) even more distracting :)

I too found that LOTR : ROTK yesterday on CBC was amazing. It was presented in the original aspect ratio (2.35:1), in HD and in glorious Dolby Digital 5.1. CBC got it right this time. Last time, when they presented The Two Towers, it was presented in 16:9 (or 1.77:1) so the signal was cut. And I know Pirates of the Carribean was presented in SD 4:3 at the beginning of the week. Good job on this one CBC!!

I missed it yesterday and only saw it on SD, but see it is on today and set the PVR. Only thing is the schedule shows it for 2 hours, but says its 210 minutes on CBCHD. How long was it yesterday??

Pirates of Carribean sucked in 4:3, but ABC had it on widescreen.