King and Maxwell S01E01 EXTENDED HDTV x264-2HD - Forums - EZTV

Posted at 11/06/2013, 03:01

#201372

any idea what extra stuff is in the extended version?

Posted at 11/06/2013, 03:18

#201375

✎ Quote by rohanmce

any idea what extra stuff is in the extended version?

from the nfo -

"interesting. tnt aired two different cuts of this episode. the original airing from 10:00-11:05
was in a 65 minute time slot while the rerun from 12:05-1:05 was in an hour slot. normally when
things are in extended slots, it's just a promo or preview for a new show which is missing
in the rerun but the show content is identical. however in this case after we pred, we noticed
the time slot difference and grabbed the west coast airing just for comparison purposes
color us surprised when edited down, there was a runtime difference of approx 5 minutes (46:51 to 41:47)

so this is the longer probably never again to be seen cut and the earlier one is the cutdown version"

Posted at 11/06/2013, 18:14

#201403

this show gets my vote for the list of "never made it past season 1".

not one original aspect to make it different, and the're not even trying.

supremely boring.

Posted at 13/06/2013, 09:46

#201448

✎ Quote by aikousha

i wonder if networks still have the frame acceleration hardware... it pseudo-jacked
up the frame
rate by 1 or 2 fps, while shifting the audio frequencies, in order to squeeze another minute or two
in, of advertising.
for example, this was done in the syndicated repeats of some shows from the 60s and 70s, so the
claim of "seen uncut for the first time in years" could be used on shows that used to be 52 minutes
in actual length, in order to fit them "un-editied" in what is now the standard of 45 minutes of
actual (non-commercials) time.

not saying that is what was done here, but it would be a cheap and easy way to avoid making a couple
of unwanted edits to keep the directors' favorite scenes in, and then forcing it later to fit in a
slightly tighter time-slot.

that's quite interesting. i guess that the doubling of ad time led to a temporal equivalent of the
spatial problem caused by differing aspect ratios: distort it or lose part of it. of course
letterboxing is the preferred 3rd option for cineastes, but i can't conceive of an analogous
solution to the running time problem that would satisfy fans of classic tv- unless perhaps it's to
run single episodes over multiple days which would get incredibly complicated really fast with all
the fractions involved.

Posted at 25/06/2013, 03:14

#201873

you're not confusing this with the fact that tape based video recording wasn't really invented till
the late 60's. prior to that 'telecine' was the way to record tv and of course everything was made
on film to start with well into the 80's. (the lack of recording equipment is also why so much early
tv was live to air.) if you had something made at standard film rates (24fps) and you just put it on
the telecine machine which ran out as 30fps it would all play through about 16% quicker... making a
50min program about 45min long.

Posted at 23/07/2013, 06:40

#202972

better late than never (that's assuming that anyone reads this at all, that is 😛): i downloaded both versions and quickly
ran through them side-by-side. it's not any kind of technical issue, this one really has a few minutes more content than the
earlier release. about half the difference is accounted for by one missing scene (the one in which maxwell accosts her
gambling ex-colleague), the other half by nothing more interesting than individual omitted non-essential shots and quicker
cuts throughout the runtime.