🚀 go-pugleaf

why pay? don't you think those US rubbish worth US$1 ???

In the last 3 weeks, I only watched these movies on TV and I found that
they were just rubbish...

"My Gal"... I caught it for 30 min only, dull life of a little girl.. bore
like hell..

"Batman - Forever".. lucky me, i didn't go to cinema and pay for this
crap... only watched it for 20 min.

"Coma".. a classic, not bad..
"Murial's Wedding" comedy about an ugly white woman, not sure where this
movie was made.. it didn't look like US movie anyway. Crap, no wonder it
was screened at late night without commercial interrupt.

By the way, British already gone. Don't you think TVB & ATV should close
down their English services (which was required by British Colony's law)?
They were making loss for the last 30 years!

Andy KONG <Andykong@net.vigator.com> ���g�J��D�D
<33e995fb.13590116@news.netvigator.com>...
Sorry for not participating in the first round discussion.  

I have some opinion regarding movie viewing in local (Hong Kong) TV
channels.  I used to enjoy these movies very much but not so when I am
more seriously about Home Theater.  The problems is the large number
or advertisement involved in each film.  For those good films, they
normally highlighted it as a "movie of the month"  As a result, a
movie started at 9:30pm will finish at 11:45pm  the earliest and
sometime it goes all the way to 12:30am with Late News in between.  I
try to combat the problem by record the show to VCR but I am still
very annoyed even when the FFwd functions is available. I really don't
enjoy watch these great movies (especially fot those action packed
movies) with interrupt at every 10 to 15 minutes.



  

In fact the LD rental cost in Hong Kong is very low and I think the
extra cost is well worthwhile.  I am paying HK$880 (~US$113) for 100
movies and I get better picture, better sound, earlier release date
and no commercial in betweeen.  Besides, I can record the blockbusters
onto VCR and the result is always better than recording from TV
signals.

Just my $0.2 opinion.




On 6 Aug 1997 07:34:35 GMT, "Vivian" <vivi@hktv.com> wrote:

>"The Flintstones", "My Gal", "Batman - Forever" were screened on TVB Pearl
>in last 2 weeks,
>"Speed" is coming soon (we don't have to pay).
>
>The Two Free-to-air English TV channels in Hong Kong...
>
>TVB Pearl (UHF channel 25)
>ATV World (UHF channel 27)
>
>Sorry, no on-line schedule for ATV World... (ATV only provide on-line TV
>schedule for their Chinese Channel)
>
>TVB Peral prime-time program schedule from 31th July to 10th Aug
>
>31/7 9:30pm "GunCrazy", US Drama "Senfield" at 11:40pm (commercial free),
>US Drama "NYPE Blue" at 12:45am (commercial free), US Drama "Babylon 5" at
>1:35am (commercial free)
>
>(Dramas are skip from this point)
>1/8   9:30pm "Good Morning, Vietnam", 2am "Double Exposure"
>
>2/8 12:15pm "Betrayed By Love" (commercial free), 1:45pm "The Pink
Panther"
>(commercial free), 9:30pm "Radio Flyer", 12:10am "out of Darkness"
>(commercial free), 1:50am "Ebbtide" (Commercial free)
>
>3/8 2pm "The Amy Fisher Story", 9:30pm "The Flintstones"
>
>4/8 9:30pm "Christopher columbus The Discovery" and US Drama "The X-files"
>at 12:55am (commercial free)
>
>5/8 9:30pm "Cool As Ice", US Drama "The X-files" at 12:30am (commercial
>free)
>
>6/8 9:30pm "K-9"
>
>7/8 9:30pm "Parenthood"
>
>8/8 9:30pm "Cage II", 1:40am "Three Days of the condor"
>
>9/8 12:15pm "American Anthem", 2pm "Firestorm: 72 hours in Oakland",
9:30pm
>"Hayao Miyazakl's collection: Pon Poco" (Japanese Animation movie),
12:15am
>"Cat's Eye", 1:55am "Death Wish"
>
>10/8 9:30pm "Victory"(1995)
>
>
>stu04 <stu04@accmid.accnet.com> ���g�J��D�D
><01bca0cb$3369aca0$355e4acb@11.accnet.com.tw>...
>> test
>> 
>> Nigel LAM <nigellam@hkstar.com> ���g�J��D�D
>> <33D1EB36.92572CAE@hkstar.com>...
>> > William Lau wrote:
>> > 
>> > > I totally agree with you!!
>> > >
>> > > TV Fan <hkcd@hotmail.com> ���g�J��D�D
>> > > <01bc926c$5025a960$35768bd0@supervisor>...
>> > > > Do you know that.... The two free-to-air English TV stations in
>Hong
>> > > Kong
>> > > > put on great movies every night!!!!
>> > > > Many of these moives are still only available on Laser Disc /
Video
>> > > tape
>> > > /
>> > > > Pay-TV in other countries, that means, you have to PAY!!!!
>> > > > After cinema showing, then a movie will go to free-to-air TV 4
>> > > months (at
>> > > > least) till 3 years (at most) later.
>> > > >
>> > > > "Madonna - the girlie show", first run in Nov, 1993 on TVB Pearl
>> > > while
>> > > she
>> > > > was still in Australia. LD/Video was released in June, 1994.
>VideoCD
>> > > was
>> > > > released in June, 1997.
>> > > >
>> > > > "From Dusk Till Dawn", first run in June 1997 on ATV World. The
>> > > video is
>> > > > still on the "new release" counter in vidoe rental shops in UK &
>> > > Australia.
>> > > > (No Laser Disc in UK & Australia). It is also avialable on Cable
TV
>> > > in
>> > > > US... but not free-to-air TV.
>> > > >
>> > > > "Strictly Ballroom", first run in June 1993 on ATV World, Hong
Kong
>> > > > official LD release date: August, 1993... is it ridiculous???
>> > > >
>> > > > "Hellraiser 3", first run in Aug, 1993 on TVB Pearl, released on
>> > > Video in
>> > > > Australia in May, 1994.
>> > > >
>> > > > "Heavenly Creature", first run in Apirl 1996 on ATV World, UK
video
>> > > release
>> > > > date: March, 1997
>> > > >
>> > > > "Murial's Wedding", first run in Nov, 1996 on ATV World.
>> > > >
>> > > > "The Usual Suspect", "Murder on the first", "Jurassic Park", "The
>> > > Piano",
>> > > > "The Man without a face", "Foever Young", "Far & Away", "Damage",
>> > > "Die
>> > > Hard
>> > > > 3", "Bram Stoker's Dracula", "Ace Ventuna - Pet Detective",
>> > > "Stargate",
>> > > > "Star Trek 6"....
>> > > >
>> > > > God, you have to pay if you are not in Hong Kong!!!!
>
>"Pulp fiction" was first run on free-to-air tv in Hong Kong in December
>last year!
>
>
>> > > >
>> > > > So, if you are one of the typical Hong Kong citizens, only
watching
>> > > > Cantonese dramas on the two free-to-air Cantonese Stations...
>> > > > Poor boys, you miss a lot!!!
>> > > >
>> > > > Don't miss "Batman - Forever" coming Saturday on TVB Pearl..
>> > > > "the x-files" now re-run after mid-night, from Monday - Friday...
>> > > >
>> > > > In other countries, only dated movies on Sunday night & terrible
TV
>> > > soap
>> > > > available on free-to-air TV
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > 
>> >   I was shock to learn that we are so lucky to have so many new movies
>> > on air free.
>> > But I still have some opinions on the movies on air,  I love to see
the
>> > movies, but I hate the bilingual translations, it just waste the
>digital
>> > stereo channel. As most movies have chinese captions already, the
>> > chinese sound translation can be avoided, and I don't think much of us
>> > will like to listen to such chinese translations.
>> > 
>> > Without such chinese translation, we have a sound channel spare and we
>> > can broastcast in original stereo sound, and in most cases, with Dolby
>> > surround encoded.  This is absolutely possible because I have already
>> > tried it (the Willow and the Emperor of the sun), It gives much more
>> > pleasure to watch movies with surround sound than mono sound.
>> > 
>> > Also, I hope the movies can be broastcasted in letter box format than
>> > the pan and scan format.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > --
>> > Nigel LAM
>> > [nigellam@hkstar.com]
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> 

Andy KONG (Remove "." in "netvigator.com" to response with email)

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