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Old 16th Apr 2018, 10:17 am   #21
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Does anyone know if this is available on Freesat?
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Old 16th Apr 2018, 10:24 am   #22
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I've been watching this channel for ages now its now my 'go to' choice when switching on.
IMHO Gideon's Way, Edgar Wallace and Family at War are a delight to watch in prime time away from those miserable, dreadful soaps and tacky documentaries that populate that time of the evening.
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Old 16th Apr 2018, 10:30 am   #23
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Talking pictures is about the only channel I watch (Freeview 81). Excellent material and very good quality given the age of some of the films.

I leave my Panasonic Viera set on auto ratio and it is fine. Never get any black borders but just occasionally I will get a very brief flicker as the set makes its mind up what ratio is being used. This is usually as the programme adverts kick in or out.
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For Edgar Wallace Mysteries I think they use the cinema prints with the original aspect ratio rather than the television 4:3 prints
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Old 16th Apr 2018, 12:26 pm   #25
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Yes, Ch. 306. See http://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/faqs/

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Old 17th Apr 2018, 6:56 pm   #26
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My wife and I watch TPTV quite a lot.
I like the music that accompanies the presentation segments of 16mm film running through a projector, it's the theme from the 1949 film "The Glass Mountain", my parents had it on a 78 when I was a child.

I wish they would drop the "This film has a PG certificate" nonsense.
They showed that film the other week!
They showed the PG certificate thing the other week, then an original film censors board certificate came up that said "U" certificate. How times have changed!

Offcom told them off not so long back for the non PC language in some old films and shows. So I suppose they have to put the warning notice on.
It's like the notice other channels put on for the ghost hunter shows. "Entertainment Only" When everyone knows they are trying to prove ghosts are real!
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I watched "A Taste of Honey" earlier on.

I noticed this on a visit to the Manchester Museum of Transport a couple of weeks ago, so I was looking out for the bus scenes.

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As for outdated attitudes to race, sexuality, etc, didn't someone once say "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"?

You couldn't ask for a more retrospective platform than TTTV, and I think it's a good place for such material.

But to get back on topic, TTTV showed "A Taste of Honey" slightly pillarboxed, and leaves me with the impression that they were honoring the original 1.66:1 rather than zooming it up slightly to 16:9
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Old 18th Apr 2018, 9:17 pm   #28
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I don't think the auto setting works on some pillarboxed aspects. They have to squeeze the image of a 4.3 picture to stretch it out, they do put letterbox on 2.35, but it is still squeezed. When a squeezed image is detected by the TV, it jumps to full screen. I noticed this with ITV3 too, when certain ITV dramas were not in full widescreen, when made in the 90's, but would be wider than a standard TV. They don't jump to full screen, which would still leave an edge down the sides, on a modern TV. Channel Four used a system that had pillar boxed aspect, that switched to full 16.9 on a wide TV. But that was when we had analogue TV. I think it was something to do with the Pal Plus system.
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I wish they would drop the "This film has a PG certificate" nonsense.
Sometimes I watch Coronation Street and there is nothing more irritating than at the end credits the voice over says 'If you have been affected by this programme, visit xxxxxxx.www'

All that is missing is dial 0898 xxxxxxx (calls cost £1.50 a minute)
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I wish they would drop the "This film has a PG certificate" nonsense.
But nice to hear a decent voice on TV. All part of nostalgia.

Where else can one see on TV every night chrome plated
bumpers on cars and roads with no yellow lines?
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Hi all,

For those of you who watch 'Talking Pictures' via Sky please note they are changing channel number soon. I received the following from them today.......

Tuesday 1st May 2018 we will no longer be on Sky channel 343 but are moving to Sky channel 328. NO OTHER CHANNEL NUMBERS OR SERVICES WILL BE AFFECTED

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