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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!!!!
> >
> > 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.





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Nigel LAM
[nigellam@hkstar.com]