Yes, if we only ever get Original Aspect Ratio of 4:3 for the live-action footage, that’s fine, but I would love to see an ALL 16:9 “Widescreen” ratio too if possible purely for it’s cinematic look. I don’t REALLY want it done if it’s just a lazy butcher job of “cutting off the top and bottom”, what I want, IF it’s possible to do this, is for the profiteers to get someone with a good “compositional eye” to do this in a MIXTURE of ways: some scenes that can get away with it would just be cut top and bottom, other more difficult scenes would be sympathetically “panned and scanned”, and the most unusable footage that will look TOO “Siergio Leone-like” where face close-ups etc. are concerned, would need to have sides ADDED! If it’s a cheap basic routethey go for, it will look bad, and I too say forget it.

I hope that never happens to TOS, the composition of shots would not work some of the times, like close-ups on actors.

Thanks for the link to the Digital Bits article. I guess he’s declaring a format winner. I’ll read that now.

By the way, here’s the link for that High Definition article -

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/soapbox/soap060107.html

As has been covered here before, the end of the year remastered High Definition DVDs will be initially released on “HYBRID COMBO” Discs which will play not just on HD-DVD players, but ALSO on plain ‘ol standard DVD players too…so anyone that hasn’t decided on which High Definition format player to buy yet can STILL watch them till they do decide.
I would say though that Bill Hunt and the rest of the gang at the highly respected and informative site http://www.the digitalbits.com have just this week FULLY thrown their advice to consumers to go with the BLU-RAY format rather than the HD-DVD one ( sorry Lord Garth, and I hope Marta doesn’t sulk) and have just written a terrific piece about the reasons why under the heading “SOAPBOX” on 1st June. I would urge those interested to read it. Finally, though ALL of the footage in these initial releases will be in 4×3, I hope for some kind of cinematic 16×9 version EVENTUALLY, even if it is sometimes like Siergio Leone!

My TIVO/Direct TV schedule did not catch the change…I happened to be watching at 11PM and had to manually change the TIVO to record at 2AM for what was billed as “Paid Programming” on the on-screen schedule.

So this weekend’s show is at 11PM then, but not the week after.

Still, if American Idol were to go the way of the Dodo, I would not exactly be shedding any tears…at the risk of showing my age, where o where has any real musical talent gone? Or do I have already answered this question with my Dodo reference?

Thanks for the input. I will tell hubby that I am right and hence the uber-trekkie of the house. Actually, it had been many moons since we watched and were happy to find it on a local station at a decent time (6pm on saturday here not in the wee hours) a few months ago. Our kids are now getting trekified.

As others have said in this thread, it sounds like it’ll be 4×3, because hopping back and forth between 16×9 CGI and 4×3 live action would be horrible. But I want to see a release that’s wider throughout… 16×9 may be too tight for ST’s compositions, but around 1.60:1 would work. So any plans for a release that’s wider than 4×3? Please?