LazyTown being aired in HD on Sprout

[Victoria]

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Stephanie's opinion on LazyTown being aired in HD on Sprout:



Stephanie's opinion on LazyTown being aired in HD with the vastly outdated and inefficient MPEG-2 codec:



Unfortunately, no American HDTV channels broadcast in H.264 because every TV provider is too cheap to roll out H.264-capable equipment to all their subscribers.

...I'd still like to see LazyTown get a proper Blu-ray release utilizing the twice-as-efficient H.264/AVC codec.

...maybe in another 7 years...

[Guest]

Re: LazyPics

I'd still like to see LazyTown get a proper Blu-ray release utilizing the twice-as-efficient H.264/AVC codec.

Why they haven't done this already? They recorded LazyTown in HD in the first place, if I remember correctly.

[Ilovestephshoes]

Re: LazyPics

Stephanie's opinion on LazyTown being aired in HD on Sprout:

HD STEPERS, NEED MORE OF THAT

[Victoria]

Re: LazyPics

Why they haven't done this already? They recorded LazyTown in HD in the first place, if I remember correctly.

Who knows. They wouldn't even have to sell a ton of copies to at least make a small profit. There's loads of stuff natively shot in high definition that is never released on Blu-ray, instead only getting some terrible degraded release on a dead format that's decades old (DVD). It's because consumers are idiots and haven't bought Blu-ray in huge numbers like DVD despite it being a bigger leap than VHS to DVD was and it's now just as cheap as DVD.

Authoring Blu-rays isn't particularly difficult. I, for example, can be given digital video files and author and encode a Blu-ray that will play on any Blu-ray player. Then it's a matter of sending my project to have AACS added and be replicated. Yet somehow this is a process that costs Hollywood studios thousands of dollars. Uhh, what? Tell ya what, LazyTown Entertainment. Send me the lossless digital video files for LazyTown and I'll author you season sets for free. Then all you've gotta worry about is paying the replicator and the licensing fees. The funny thing is I've examined the processing power used to encode some commercial Blu-ray's and my home PC's processor (Core i7 2600k Sandy Bridge overclocked @ 4.6 GHz) is actually more powerful than what the big studios used.

What's particularly perplexing is apparently they got enough motivation to release the show on "HD VMDs" which was a brief, super-rare format no one ever heard of. They probably only sold 100 of the things in the entire world. Yet they won't release it on the now well-established high definition home video format winner Blu-ray. WTF LazyTown Entertainment?

Anyways, LazyTown is a kid's show and apparently that means it's unworthy of getting a proper home video release. It's a constant irritation to know that all this material is being shot in a much higher resolution than is being released to the general public. I have all the equipment to play it, I just wish they'd sell me a copy.

[mrusername1000000]

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This is all I saw on the Sprout website. Can someone please direct me to the HD Lazytown material on Sprout?!

[Victoria]

Re: LazyPics

Sprout HD is currently carried by Midwestern cable overbuilder WOW and on Comcast only in their Philadelphia market.