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Next year Shortland Street will look sharper than ever in HD. On the eve of its annual cliffhanger (TV2, 7pm Friday), South Pacific Pictures has revealed the top-rating serial will look even more refined for its 20th anniversary. “We will move from an interlaced to progressive capture system, which gives us the ability to refine [...]

NZ On Air is bankrolling the next HD season of Nothing Trivial for $6.6 million dollars. That will pay for 13 more episodes of the South Pacific Pictures series. NZOA invested $6.9 million in the first season of Nothing Trivial, which will be released on DVD (but not Blu-ray) on October 26. It ended last night on a [...]

Shortland Street fans can download last week’s top-rating movie-length episode in HD. South Pacific Pictures announced today it was using new technology to give fans the chance to buy the winter season-finale via Facebook. The file sizes vary depending on the format chosen. For example, the HD Quicktime version is 556MB while the SD Quicktime [...]

You’re not in standard definition now, Dr Ropata … There will be a big hike in TV2’s primetime HD content from Monday, when flagship hit Shortland Street starts to screen weeknights in 1080i. That will add another two-and-a-half hours a week of HD programming to TV2’s schedule – and nearly triple that when the serial’s [...]

Last night’s HD dramatisation of the Baby Kahu case, Stolen, dwarfed the competition. The two-hour telemovie drew 11.4% of TV3′s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, compared with V’s 6.1%, Castle’s 7.3% and Real Life’s 5.9%. It was even more popular with 25-54 year-olds (12.4%) and household shoppers with kids (17.4%); even with 18-39 year-olds, it rated [...]

The sixth season of Outrageous Fortune — and the first to be shot on HD — wrapped production Friday. Producer South Pacific Pictures has shot other series on HD, most notably Go Girls, which is to resume shortly on TV2, and Diplomatic Immunity, which was axed after only one season on TV One. It hadn’t [...]