Kanopy is an on-demand streaming platform used by public libraries across the country and is one place to start; the Chicago Public Library, however, uses a different platform called Hoopla and it does not appear to have any classic films listed. On YouTube you can find less-than-legit options. Places like archive. Skip to content. The greatest office romance in history: Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell trade the fastest banter in cinema as journalists in "His Girl Friday" based on characters in the play "The Front Page" chasing after a big story.
Directed by Howard Hawks. Either way, viewers will be paying more. Turner Classic Movies. Latest Movies. The only way I can enlarge the widescreen picture is to stretch it horizontally, distorting the image. I don't think they want a lot of SD programming on an authentic HD channel Most of the studios are ready to provide HD masters of their holdings including the classic films, most DVDs were made from HD telecines, the problem is gathering enough of them - it's a lot of time and money.
I think it's possible that a genuine HD channel may debut around TCM's 20th anniversary in but you can't be completely sure about that. TCM does have an HD channel. You should contact your local cable or satellite provider. While it is upgraded content, rather than actual HD, you do get to see widescreen movies in a widescreen format, not Hence, despite recent posts to the contrary notwithstanding, TCM is not routinely converting wide screen formats to for showing in their SD channel.
Thus, as far as I am concerned, there is no reason not to view all movies in SD, thus giving up viewing a very few genuine-HD movies in the so-called HD channel. Don't tell me that it is because the picture is sharper in this smaller size Let's not get started on this tiresome old argument all over again when people can go back to the existing thread over that nonsense. Some LCD TVs, such as Sharp at least the older Sharp models , have a "Zoom" function in addition to "Stretch" or "Side Stretch" , which does not alter the aspect ratio; rather, it zooms in on the image, so that the small widescreen image on a SD channel fills the screen better eliminating to some degree the black borders -- usually without over-zooming so that there is no lost image.
I have noticed your problem on numerous new 16x9 TVs. If your problem has to do with the incorrect display mode, refer to this little chart below:. Also will zoom in on a widescreen movie on a SD channel and fill the screen more fully. TV controls such as "Zoom" don't always work i. Obviously, you misunderstood what I was saying. I was not saying that TCM was converting widescreen into I would never say that.
Yes, one could use the zoom button on his remote or TV to articifially make it big enough to reach the edges but the picture will suffer. But on the TCM HD channel, the picture automatically stretches from side to side, with no need to artificially stretch it.
And the picture quality is better. As I read it, your complaint with my "tiresome old argument" is that you are unable to see any rationale for "sacrificing" a very small number of true HD movies poor things!
Perhaps in a few years, when there are enough HD movies hanging around to make my current argument tiresome, then your tiresome argument will no longer be necessary. Your cable company should allow you to toggle between the and ratios. Also, your TV should have a striaght zoom feature that merely enlarges the picture without distorting it.
But, as filmlover says, you lose something in the quality of the picture. I had done a search of the forums for HD but the original thread did not come up. Filmlover, your pictures show exactly the problem I have. The zoom choice on my LG just lets me enlarge vertically by cropping horizontally. I don't watch movies as they are shown on HD channels, because it's much more convenient to watch recorded movies. Of course, old movies in 1. Thank you for your for taking the time and trouble to post another message about an issue which continues to cause endless confusion here, and for very good reason After a brief review following your example, I have concluded that there are far too many variables involved here to reach any generalized conclusion.
These variables include TCM's manipulations, the type of television set, the cable service provider, the aspect ratio, etc. Putting it simply: what satisfies one viewer will probably not satisfy another viewer.
That is, the ratio of image sizes in SD vs. HD depends upon the particular aspect ratio, which greatly complicates matters. Regarding TV set image modification, my Samsung TV has various types of image size modifications via the remote; all of these distort the image to some extent if it is not properly set.
Unfortunately I do not have a pure zoom image modifier; i. The bottom line for me is: I will not accept any image distortion, just for the sake of filling up the screen in either dimension. At the moment, I am not prepared to sort all of these things out. It seems as though each case is different and I suppose that I could devote a lifetime trying to sort out all of these factors. The one upside from the death of FilmStruck is that it publicly displayed the passion big names in the film industry have for TCM.
In , the channel added Jacqueline Stewart, a film professor at the University of Chicago, to its lineup of hosts. TCM has never aired a film altered for time constraints or content.
Explanations of dated or inappropriate depictions have always been cited in its host introductions. But the focus on social justice and gender equality, especially among younger viewers, have brought those issues to the forefront. Stewart, who is also the chief artistic and programming officer at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures , said the response has been positive from academy members, especially those who are people of color. But fans such as Scorsese are still happy to switch TCM on and take in whatever is showing with the knowledge that it was curated by a film lover and not an algorithm.
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