CBC-HD is showing 'The Station Agent' on CBC-HD tonight! It looks great in HD, make sure to catch it.

I haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean yet, but it promises to be glorious in full HD! It's on Sunday night, but be careful setting your PVR's because they are breaking the show up and having the final 15 minutes of the movie after the news.

Thanks for the heads-up. I missed The Station Agent, but will be sure to watch the pirates!

It's on Sunday night, but be careful setting your PVR's because they are breaking the show up and having the final 15 minutes of the movie after the news.

They've got to be kidding... who the hell is actually going to return to watch 15 minutes of a 2+ hour program after a one hour break? Are they hoping to boost the viewership for the lowest-rated national news broadcast in the country? Not until they get rid of their obvious biases will those numbers go up.

CBC really needs to update their schedules. Neither programme is/was listed on their site as HD.

According to the following, only 10 minutes of news...then back to Pirates... until about 11:15 (according to the regular schedule)

http://www.cbc.ca/television/

They are getting kind of random with the news programming aren't they? Last week all the buzz was about the National being bumped in favor of some American Idol clone. This week they cut off the last act of a movie to show news.

No doubt there will be some that claim such managment glitches are to be expected with CBC's paltry 1 billion budget. I love CBC and feel we need it, but they do so many things that make them really hard to defend.

Has the monkey forgot to throw the HD switch on, or Pirate was just SD only?

Pirates is 4:3 at the moment (8:07). Picture quality seems quite decent but not widescreen.

Pirates is 4:3 at the moment (8:07). Picture quality seems quite decent but not widescreen.According to the schedule CBC posted (http://www.cbc.ca/hdtv/schedule/CBC_HD_nextweeka.pdf) that's what it was supposed to be. 4:3 SD.

I didn't see the schedule, but yesterday, immediately after reading Neild's original post, I accessed CBC via my Roger's Yahoo homepage.

The link took me directly to CBC's promo for Pirates. The large colour screenshot from the movie was right next to a "The HDTV Picture" logo. I assumed that the logo pertained to the movie. I assumed wrong.

What a disappointment to tune in for 4:3 SD.

Bah, my recording was low def too.

Things should be better in coming weeks though... CBC-HD has 'The Last Samurai', 'Master & Commander', 'Old School', 'The Ring' and both 'Kill Bill' movies. Early adopters of HD will remember these movies were played in heavy rotation on the HD movie channels in their early days so they will definitely be available in HD on CBC-HD!!!!

any timing info? I definitely need to set my PVR for some of those.

P.

Saturday and Sunday nights

Early adopters of HD will remember these movies were played in heavy rotation on the HD movie channels in their early days so they will definitely be available in HD on CBC-HD!!!!

Okay Neild, what have you done with the REAL Neild, who had this to say in the CBC-HD content discussion thread ;) :

As Movie Central has proven, average grade older movies are also becoming readily available and affordable in HD, yet CBC always shows them in low def. CBC blithely shows Kill Bill and Finding Nemo in low def when everyone knows they are readily available in HD.

I'm not holding my breath for any of CBC's summer movies to show up in HD, and I'll be pleasantly surprised if any of them actually do.

Okay Neild, what have you done with the REAL Neild, who had this to say in the CBC-HD content discussion thread ;) :


I've decided to be optimistic CBC-HD will one day actually show some HD programming on their HD channel. Readily available and affordable HD movies would be a 30 minute piece of work for a CBC bureaucrat to set up that would give them a near effortless 400% boost in HD hours. If I were that bureaucrat, I'd definitely skip a coffee break to get this done... but that's just me.

Considering that the CRTC appears to finally be cracking down on HD license abuse, (hopefully) someone at CBC knows they are definitely under CRTC's watchful eye and decides now would be an ideal time to start making attempts at fulfilling their license commitments. Even if their motive is as base as self-preservation, at least it's a start that will get them from 1 hour up to 5 or 6 per week.

I'm not holding my breath for any of CBC's summer movies to show up in HD, and I'll be pleasantly surprised if any of them actually do.

Comments like this indicate just how low the expectation bar has been level set for CBC that we will be pleasantly surprised if they actually make anything above a zero effort.

Imagine if you told your boss "Hey boss, I know I'm scheduled to work 168 hours this month, is it OK if I only do 1 hour though?" Or if the fire department only answered 1 out of every 168 calls?

That's what CBC-HD is doing. They have 168 hours every week in which they could air HD programming. It is their choice to deliver only 1 hour.

Things should be better in coming weeks though... CBC-HD has 'The Last Samurai', 'Master & Commander', 'Old School', 'The Ring' and both 'Kill Bill' movies.The latest CBC Schedule shows Samurai as HD July 8 (& WS, I assume on the SD channel). M&C is listed as WS unfortunately, which probably means no DD5.1. Also "split" by the news at 10PM

There's a lot of blue and some more yellow on the schedule... total of roughly 35 hours ;)

They've got to be kidding... who the hell is actually going to return to watch 15 minutes of a 2+ hour program after a one hour break? Are they hoping to boost the viewership for the lowest-rated national news broadcast in the country? Not until they get rid of their obvious biases will those numbers go up.
My thoughts exactly! I can't figure out their reasoning in some of their wrong headed decisions! I rarely watch CBC except for the odd documentary (they are quite good in this area) The most annoying thing I find about the CBC is their ill-timed commercials! They often insert ads right when an actor is in mid-sentence of a dramatic scene and then when they come back from the commercials, the programme has lost its continuity and the viewer is completely confused and frustrated trying to figure out what was deleted and how that impacts the storyline!

There's a lot of blue and some more yellow on the schedule... total of roughly 35 hours ;)

Just so people don't have the wrong impression when they read '35 hours'. Here are the ACTUAL number of scheduled HD hours on CBC-HD:

Week of June 26:
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Nature of Things - 1 hour
11 Cameras - 30 minutes (+1 repeat) = 1 hour
Last Samurai - 90 minutes = 1.5 hours

Total: 3.5 hours

Week of July 8:
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11 Cameras - 30 minutes (+3 repeats) = 2 hours

Total: 2.0 hours

My thoughts exactly!... (post 16)Post 4 corrected the faulty information in post 3 regarding Pirates timing.

Neild, don't forget the 22hours of WS for the week of June 26.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Eskimoes vs Bombers game on Saturday looked to be in HD. Was it SD widescreen? or true HD. I watched it on a buddy's 52" CRT so I couldn't tell as easy as on my 100" PJ image.