{"id":2556,"date":"2010-10-13T10:34:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T00:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2010-10-13T10:34:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T00:34:39","slug":"quality-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2556","title":{"rendered":"Quality TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent proliferation of second and third TV stations for the major broadcasters has brought some interesting material back to our TV screens. There are a lot of broadcast hours to fill up, and low cost content must be especially welcome.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I stumbled across one. ‘7Mate on Prime’ — the third Channel 7 affiliate station — was showing the 1969 Australian TV show, ‘Riptide<\/a>‘ (the episode ‘One Way to Nowhere<\/a>‘ to be specific). For some reason the title was extremely familiar to me, although I have no recollection of having seen it. It turns out to be a waterside action drama, or at least that describes the episode that was on yesterday.<\/p>\n

As it happens, it was filmed (and clearly it was film) in colour, even though Australia wasn’t to have colour TV for another six years. Perhaps they were hoping to sell it overseas.<\/p>\n

The film clearly hasn’t aged well. Here’s one frame:<\/p>\n

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Okay, I picked one with a particularly bad splotch on it, but there are scratches throughout, and that appalling colour balance, and a very soft look, and green tinges around the edges of many objects.<\/p>\n

Presumably being shown on a TV station’s third channel isn’t lucrative enough to justify any restoration work at all. Even if that third station is a HD one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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