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Post #1059066

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Dr. Cooper
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Idea, Info & Project: 'Titanic' - UK HDTV broadcast (pre 2012 changes) (Released)
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25-Mar-2017, 4:03 PM

It’s currently on Austrian channel PULS 4 again and SAT.1 is showing the film on April 8th - both airings should be uncut, but as both channels belong to the same company they’re both showing the slightly zoomed 2.20:1-version. ProSiebenSAT.1 just stopped that stupid zooming of Cinemascope-films at the beginning of 2017, but all the films that’ve already been in their system by then (like “Titanic” which was first shown from that HD-copy in August 2012) are still shown with that zoom.

I think the best opportunity for the pre-2012-version is the old Sky-record that x5gb already mentioned as there is no logo and the full end credits included.

@JayArgonaut: Just because I’m curious about it: Do you know where the watershed for uncut-broadcasts of such films is? In Germany it’s 8pm for films rated FSK 12, 10pm for FSK 16 and 11pm for FSK 18. Films that are on the index are not allowed to be shown uncut at any time on TV, no matter if it’s 7pm or 3 in the morning. But I’ve no idea how censorship works on British TV.
“Titanic” is a quite good example for that: German afternoon-broadcasts on ProSiebenSAT.1-channels have been cut around 10 minutes, but mostly “violent” scenes (drowning people, Tommy being shot…). Here’s a report with pictures of the missing scenes in the afternoon-broadcasts: http://www.dvd-forum.at/schnittbericht/342-titanic

The UK-broadcasts on 4 I’ve seen showed much more of that violence but in return such things as Fred Fleet screaming “Basterds!” into the phone are missing there. Are there any rules what has to be removed during certain times or is it just up to the TV-stations what they’re doing with their programmes?