HBO showing entire series The Wire (remastered) starting 12/26 (1 Viewer)

[Wingnut]

Heads up!

Every episode, starting Fri Dec 26th at Noon. Remastered in 16:9 HD. I missed it the first run, got my DVR set.

HBO Signature East

 

[Maelstrom]

If you have HBO, you also have HBOGo, which has always had all of the Wire episodes available. I don't know what the format was, but it's there.

 

[jamny]

If you have HBO, you also have HBOGo, which has always had all of the Wire episodes available. I don't know what the format was, but it's there.

I believe this is the first time they're being shown in remastered 16:9

I've been waiting to watch it for the 3rd time and try to get my wife into it this time.

I hope they go right to HBOGo though since I don't want to fill up the dvr.

 

[Wingnut]

If you have HBO, you also have HBOGo, which has always had all of the Wire episodes available. I don't know what the format was, but it's there.

I believe this is the first time they're being shown in remastered 16:9I've been waiting to watch it for the 3rd time and try to get my wife into it this time.

I hope they go right to HBOGo though since I don't want to fill up the dvr.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Couldn't make it through season 2 last time. Are seasons 3-5 better?

 

[jamny]

interesting. I wonder if it'll be noticeable.

By remastering the show in 16:9, HBO is actually altering the shape of the frame, and thus the composition and content of the shots contained within. This isn’t a big deal for the first three seasons of the show, which according to DP Dave Insley were framed to work in 16:9 in anticipation of an eventual HD transfer. But, as Insley says, before shooting began on season four of the show, a meeting was held and series creator David Simon decided they would stick with 4:3, which he thinks “feels more like real life and real television and not like a movie.”

 

[Ilov80s]

Couldn't make it through season 2 last time. Are seasons 3-5 better?

Seasons 3 and 4 are the best. If you would have finished season 2, you would have seen what a masterpiece it was. S2 is the most important because it established everything for moving forward. It isn't a show about cops and drug dealers. It's a show about a city.

 

[Rirruto]

Couldn't make it through season 2 last time. Are seasons 3-5 better?

Seasons 3 and 4 are some of the best TV ever made. Season 5 is pretty much like Season 2. Really, really good for a regular TV show but when you compare it to 1, 3, and 4, it just doesn't hold up.

But what do I know? I'm just a humble mother####er with a big ### ****.

 

[jamny]

Couldn't make it through season 2 last time. Are seasons 3-5 better?

Season two is very divisive. I liked it but many didn't.

I think season 4 is the best season of tv ever, although overall Breaking Bad surpassed The Wire for me.

I also didn't hate season 5 as much as others.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Spoiler

Bodie and Poot kill Wallace

 

[TheAristocrat]

DVR set

 

[Jack White]

Thanks for posting this.

I didn't have HBO when it ran, and never did pull off the Netflix marathon.

This will make it easy to have them all recorded within a few clicks.

 

[PIK95]

I have the entire series on DVD. I got it 2-3 years ago on Amazon. I wonder if its the remastered series.

 

[McGarnicle]

The king stay the king.

 

[jamny]

I have the entire series on DVD. I got it 2-3 years ago on Amazon. I wonder if its the remastered series.

This is new and will come out on bluray next year.

 

[Bigboy10182000]

I don't show it on my guide for the 26th

I have comcast near Philly

 

[Wingnut]

I don't show it on my guide for the 26th

I have comcast near Philly

HBO Signature east

 

[Raider Nation]

Snot Boogie.

 

[NIU Kicker]

Are you taking notes of a criminal ####### conspiracy?

 

[Raider Nation]

Are you taking notes of a criminal ####### conspiracy?

I think you missed a word.

 

[Sebowski]

Thanks for the post. Been meaning to watch this thing. Setting dvr....

 

[Shrugs]

Couldn't make it through season 2 last time. Are seasons 3-5 better?

S2 was disappointing to me the first time around because it goes away from the characters you came to be interested in during S1. However, S3 goes back to those characters in a big way and S4 is just brilliant, one of the best seasons of any show ever. I rewatched the series in order to show it to my girlfriend this year and appreciated S2 much more the second time around not going into it with the usual expectations of how a show will function.

 

[Nick Vermeil]

The show creator Simon put out a great article about the remaster.

http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

Posting from a phone so sorry about the lame formatting.

 

[stubby]

Setting DVR....

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Not sure how it will be better in 16x9 bi thanks for the heads up

 

[Apple Jack]

Not sure how it will be better in 16x9 bi thanks for the heads up

It won't. And considering the on sale date after Christmas, the logic of the whole thing is lost on me.

 

[Sebowski]

The show creator Simon put out a great article about the remaster.

http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

Posting from a phone so sorry about the lame formatting.

That is a good read. Thanks. His replies in the comments section are also worth reading if you care about this sort of thing.

 

[belljr]

So it will be 16x9 but not hd?

my signature east isn't in hd

 

[belljr]

I don't show it on my guide for the 26th

I have comcast near Philly

303

 

[jamny]

Couldn't make it through season 2 last time. Are seasons 3-5 better?

S2 was disappointing to me the first time around because it goes away from the characters you came to be interested in during S1. However, S3 goes back to those characters in a big way and S4 is just brilliant, one of the best seasons of any show ever. I rewatched the series in order to show it to my girlfriend this year and appreciated S2 much more the second time around not going into it with the usual expectations of how a show will function.

Season 3 bothered me a lot because I could just not buy in to Hamsterdam.

 

[BigSteelThrill]

Will they remaster the shitty acting?

 

[Fennis]

I missed seasons 1 - 5.

 

[bushdocda]

I'm watching on HBO go and on my DVR.

#bmore

 

[Wingnut]

So it will be 16x9 but not hd?

my signature east isn't in hd

Yeah, if you don't have the HD channel then it won't be in HD for you. Kinda how that works. All of my HBOs other than Family West are HD.

http://i.imgur.com/iarYSLd.jpg

 

[belljr]

Weird I only have 2 hbos in hd ;shrug:

 

[Bigboy10182000]

Ok. Who has enough space to DVR all of these? Not me. Will they be OnDemand?

 

[Shrugs]

Will they remaster the shitty acting?

No. Nor will they remaster your ####ty opinion on television.

 

[cstu]

The show creator Simon put out a great article about the remaster.

http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

Posting from a phone so sorry about the lame formatting.

All they had to do was release it in 4:3 1080p. I have wide zoom on my TV if I want to watch in 16:9.

 

[jamny]

The show creator Simon put out a great article about the remaster.

http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

Posting from a phone so sorry about the lame formatting.

All they had to do was release it in 4:3 1080p. I have wide zoom on my TV if I want to watch in 16:9.

Not the same, my friend

 

[Sebowski]

The show creator Simon put out a great article about the remaster.

http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

Posting from a phone so sorry about the lame formatting.

All they had to do was release it in 4:3 1080p. I have wide zoom on my TV if I want to watch in 16:9.

 

[Sebowski]

Ok. Who has enough space to DVR all of these? Not me. Will they be OnDemand?

I have a newer one from Cox. ####loads of space. Record a bunch of stuff at the same too. Love it.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

I'm on my fourth viewing of the series. This is the first time I really appreciated season two.

I'm not going to start over again on Dec 26, but maybe I'll watch a few minutes just to see what effect the different formatting has.

 

[ditka311]

Thanks for the heads up. Been meaning to watch this.

 

[RUSF18]

I'm jealous of anyone who gets to watch this for the first time.

 

[jamil]

I'm jealous of anyone who gets to watch this for the first time.

But it gets better with each run through. First time around kind of keeps the head spinning

 

[belljr]

I have season 2 through 4 on DVD

 

[cstu]

The show creator Simon put out a great article about the remaster.

http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

Posting from a phone so sorry about the lame formatting.

All they had to do was release it in 4:3 1080p. I have wide zoom on my TV if I want to watch in 16:9.

Why? I'm perfectly happy watching it in HD as it originally aired in 4:3.

 

[Wingnut]

The show creator Simon put out a great article about the remaster.

http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

Posting from a phone so sorry about the lame formatting.

All they had to do was release it in 4:3 1080p. I have wide zoom on my TV if I want to watch in 16:9.

Why? I'm perfectly happy watching it in HD as it originally aired in 4:3.

So you're not in their target demographic for this release. Got it.

 

[Sebowski]

The show creator Simon put out a great article about the remaster.

http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

Posting from a phone so sorry about the lame formatting.

All they had to do was release it in 4:3 1080p. I have wide zoom on my TV if I want to watch in 16:9.

Why? I'm perfectly happy watching it in HD as it originally aired in 4:3.

Because you think the using your TV zoom is accomplishing the same thing as a 16:9 transfer

 

[Thunderlips]

Snot Boogie.

Got to....this is America, Man.