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TNT Serie aims to rival FOX in Germany -- starting in 2009

by Darren Murph, posted May 29th 2008 at 8:14PM

While we knew both FOX and TNT were destined to land in Germany at some point, the latter won't be arriving until January of 2009. For those unaware, FOX has actually already launched in Deutschland, but you can bet your bottom dollar, er, Euro, that TNT is hoping to be a formidable competitor. TNT Serie, as it will be dubbed, will unfortunately be aired in 16:9 24 / 7, which likely means at least some content will be shown in stretch-o-vision. Still, we're hearing that the programming lineup will be quite robust, with re-runs of US favorites 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Everybody Loves Raymond, Monk, King of Queens and quite a few others. As for carriers, it seems as if discussions are ongoing with a number of cable and IPTV providers, but nothing definitive has been uttered just yet.

[Thanks, Chris]

FOX and TNT headed to Germany

by Darren Murph, posted Apr 28th 2008 at 2:36PM

Though it's been an uphill battle for Germans looking to acquire fresh new content, it seems as if two blockbuster stations could be headed their way, and soon. According to a pair of German-language sites, both FOX and TNT will be arriving in short order, with the former going live on May 19th via pay-TV provider Arena. We're also told that Premiere (another carrier) will be picking up FOX shortly thereafter. As for TNT, there's been no specific air date listed, but word on the street has it pegged for a launch on Premiere in the not-too-distant future. Unfortunately, the biggest detail (to us, anyway) was left out, so we'll just have to wait and see if HD versions show up alongside the SD counterparts.

[Thanks, Chris]

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All three Lord of the Rings films airing in HD on TNT

by Richard Lawler, posted Dec 7th 2006 at 1:03PM

Our friends at TV Squad let us know that TNT will be airing all three Lord of the Rings movies December 15th. This will be the network television debut of the third film in the series, The Return of the King. Unfortunately what we're not sure about is whether the HD channel will be airing original aspect ratio 1080i beauty or stretched widescreen upconverts. As the films have yet to make their debut on HD DVD or Blu-ray we're keeping our fingers crossed but given TNT's history with stretching content we can't assume anything. The films will also be available for HDTVs via VOD, but that's no assurance as when the Star Wars trilogy aired on Cinemax it was OAR, but cropped on video on-demand, so they may be different. We appeal to our readers, does anyone know if the previous Lord of the Rings films shown on TNT were native or upconverted, and if there's any way to tell which these will be? Our plans for next Friday are riding on it (like we have plans).

[Via TV Squad]

News Corp thinks you'll pay $30 per flick for on demand HD

by Richard Lawler, posted Mar 2nd 2006 at 2:50PM

MoneyThat was the gist of a presentation by News Corp president Peter Chernin Tuesday. He said that consumers with high priced home theater systems would be "desperate consumers" of such offerings. Apparently his plan calls for "rental" releases via cable and satellite 60 days after they hit theaters. They think this could create new market for "home premieres" between the theatrical release and typical DVD windows.

So wait, you want me to see the movie in the theater, download it, then buy it on DVD? So instead of producing better movies that people want to come out and see, the movie industry just plans on consumers being willing to pay to see the same movie overandoverandover.....sounds like TNT's weekend lineup.

This plan seems really bad, Philip Swann at TV Predictions doesn't sound too enthused and neither does Henning at HDBlog. Are we all missing the point and there is actually a huge market for this or do you think it will crash and burn?

[Via digg]

TNT-HD is up on DIRECTV

by Ben Drawbaugh, posted Feb 18th 2006 at 8:00AM

Charmed
TNT-HD was up Friday morning on channel 75, I am excited to get the first new HD channel on DIRECTV in a long time and now that I have TNT-HD I can share my opinions about it.

The first thing I saw when I turned it on this morning was a stretched, up-converted episode of Charmed with a "IN HI-Definition where available" on the screen. I am happy to have a new channel, but I wished they would do a better job of distinguishing between the SD and the HD shows. I undestand that not everything they show is in HD, but the least they could do is label it properly and don't even get me started on the "DD 5.1" which 90% of the time isn't 5.1 at all.




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