Comments on: 9HD breaks out with Jeannie

By: Belinda

Belinda — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:20:24 +0000

Not happy with some of the language in today’s movie as I flicked past. My kids don’t need to hear that. The movie wasn’t even in widescreen.

By: koverstreet

koverstreet — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:30:28 +0000

I’d lash out right now for a set top box if 9hd started playing the crawford classics. A shame they are owned by WIN.

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:26:13 +0000

At least you get it on WIN. Those with NBN don’t.

By: R

Mon, 04 May 2009 05:37:44 +0000

It’s all a bit of a mess on WIN. Their commercial breaks are much louder than the shows themselves. Sometimes they remember to stick their solid blue watermark over the transperent Nine watermark, sometimes not. Sometimes they remember to play their promos and scenery loop during the ad breaks, sometimes they forget and we get Nine promos and commercials. They’re even cutting off a few seconds before the ad break to play a promo, then we cut to a nine promo that’s half over… Looks shonky but hey – that’s Win for you!

By: cpandilo

cpandilo — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:59:13 +0000

Nine are actually showing the remastered colour version of Bewitched.

By: JohnTV

JohnTV — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:38:06 +0000

I never realised that Sidney Sheldon the EP of I Dream of Jeannie was such a progressive producer. I mean to make a HD quality program back in 1965 is the mark of a really great producer !!!

Sooner or later, Freeview is going to get done for misleading advertising. A 44 year old program is the best that can be offered on a HD Channel!. The only thing saving Freeview is Today Tonight and ACA are both on channels that are part of Freeview and their EP’s are too gutless to take on their own brand

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:57:41 +0000

What about Test Pattern 77

Just the test pattern with funky 70’s soul as background

C’mon Stokes do it

By: David Knox

David Knox — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:15:35 +0000

Lol @ silent.

By: slydoggie

slydoggie — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:01:16 +0000

Not high quality but maybe it will inspire this country to get off it’s fat coach potato ar$e and go outside for a dose of Vitamin D.

By: Knowfirst

Knowfirst — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:48:11 +0000

Just spoke to a gentleman at NBN who said NBN was not going to run breakaway Nine programming “in the near future”.

When quizzed on why NBN’s new HD logo is on the Freeview site, and how it is misleading viewers, he just went quiet.

Freeview and the broadcasters need to pull their fingers out of their backsides *now* before more and more people just simply turn to pay-tv and never come back.

By: cpandilo

cpandilo — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:27:38 +0000

No, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie are not in HD.

By: Kev

Kev — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:04:00 +0000

Are Bewitched and Jeannie actually in HD?

By: Kenny

Kenny — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:56 +0000

OMG, to think I almost shelled out for a new HDTV on the weekend, to watch sport, 1940’s movies on 7 and this on 9. The Crawford library is owned by WIN. They’ve run (or are running) Div.4, Matlock, Skyways, Sullivans, Flying Doctors, Carson’s Law, etc. around 2am-4am, as they refuse to run Peter Popoff (LOL) from 9. 7 & 9 could do much better but they don’t want to dilute their audience from their main channels. I love WINHD tho’. They run the occasional program in HD but without commercials – covered by wallpaper of “Mogo Zoo”. Much better than the revolting, screaming Harvey Norman comms.

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:12:50 +0000

Still no announcement from 7 though. I thought Go 99 was coming in Aug. There’s a rumour of 7 in Oct – but that’s all – a rumour. Sadly though, daytime shows that are actually available in HD and promoted as such (like Ellen HD, ET HD, etc) won’t be in HD. Hopefully when Go starts, there will be no more HD break aways for the sake of it, and all shows made in HD will be shown in HD.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:05:49 +0000

The B&W stuff on HD is as bad as ch7 ‘break away’ with old movies on the HD channel also in 4:3, seriously is this the best we can expect from freeview, 50 year of shows and movies? This is exactly what PayTV is for!

By: cpandilo

cpandilo — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:49:05 +0000

Just a note that the Bewitched & I Dream of Jeannie will be shown from tomorrow from the start as they were filmed in their early years – black & white.
This is different as when they started repeating them from the start last year, Nine showed them remastered in colour.

It was really great to see Charlie’s Angels & Magnum PI for my first time today. So it seems that the supposed start date for Channel 99 has been pushed back to October so that it is now in line with Seven.