The grading thread for this week's Human Target isn't up yet, but it aired on CTV here in Canada last night (Monday Jan 25).
Wish I could comment on the episode but I had to turn it off because about 5 minutes into it the sound fell out of synch with the video. Only by about 1/2 a second but enough to make it unwatchable -- basically the stereotypical "kung fu film overdub" effect occurred, where someone's lips would start moving and then you'd hear the sound. I turned it off and decided to take my chances with either the Fox broadcast or an "alternate method" later.
I'd already noticed the picture quality was quite bad, but ever since I got my HD plasma I've noticed a few (not all, just a few) SD channels have poor picture quality, almost as if they're wanting to force people to pay the extra money to get the HD version of the channel. CTV is one of those channels, it seems.
That said, I could live with the occasional murky picture and the weird artifact that give the illusion of people's faces dropping (I'm not making that up - in the first scene with Chance in the car he started to look like Two-Face from the Dark Knight movie from time to time - saw this happen on a Discovery Channel show and CNN a couple weeks back, too). It's actually kind of cool in a Roddy Piper/They Live sort of way. But the out-of-synch sound just made me bail.
It might have been a local thing - I'm in Calgary - so I'm curious if other Canadian viewers had the same trouble elsewhere, or in Calgary. This isn't the first time I've noticed the sound/video synch fall apart on Shaw Cable. CNN was doing it almost regularly for awhile late last year. I should look into getting the HD channels, but I resent having to pay extra for them (especially at a time when I need to start cutting costs - the TV was a present).
Alex
Wish I could comment on the episode but I had to turn it off because about 5 minutes into it the sound fell out of synch with the video. Only by about 1/2 a second but enough to make it unwatchable -- basically the stereotypical "kung fu film overdub" effect occurred, where someone's lips would start moving and then you'd hear the sound. I turned it off and decided to take my chances with either the Fox broadcast or an "alternate method" later.
I'd already noticed the picture quality was quite bad, but ever since I got my HD plasma I've noticed a few (not all, just a few) SD channels have poor picture quality, almost as if they're wanting to force people to pay the extra money to get the HD version of the channel. CTV is one of those channels, it seems.
That said, I could live with the occasional murky picture and the weird artifact that give the illusion of people's faces dropping (I'm not making that up - in the first scene with Chance in the car he started to look like Two-Face from the Dark Knight movie from time to time - saw this happen on a Discovery Channel show and CNN a couple weeks back, too). It's actually kind of cool in a Roddy Piper/They Live sort of way. But the out-of-synch sound just made me bail.
It might have been a local thing - I'm in Calgary - so I'm curious if other Canadian viewers had the same trouble elsewhere, or in Calgary. This isn't the first time I've noticed the sound/video synch fall apart on Shaw Cable. CNN was doing it almost regularly for awhile late last year. I should look into getting the HD channels, but I resent having to pay extra for them (especially at a time when I need to start cutting costs - the TV was a present).
Alex
