Comments on: Paramount Announces First Blu-ray Titles – No Trek (Yet)

By: Lord Garth, Formerly of Izar

Lord Garth, Formerly of Izar — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:07:29 +0000

I want no grain for TMP Blu-ray. I don’t want to see snow when blown up on my 65″ Mitsu DLP. NO GRAIN !!!! GOT IT!!!! The Directors Edition is nearly unwatchable with the excessive grain and artifacts in the print on my Lord Garth sized TV when upconverted on either of my HD players. They best do the first 4 films justice with a Lucas like scrubbing and restoration of the prints. The WOK dvd print has so much red in it that in looks like everyone has blood pressure problems. Please Please for once will they hire someone competant and top notch for the restorations Let Dirty Darren and Eden do the enhanced effects that may need changing for HD and they guys who did Blade Runner for the actual print rehabs. NO IN HOUSE CHEAPO MEDIOCRATY we have already had over a year of it

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:25:37 +0000

I don’t mind grain, but I really detest any scratches and artifacts in a dvd release…

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:25:54 +0000

re post 36: Dom, I don’t know who is in the business or a fan here anymore who post here!

Too many people misunderstand video noise for film grain, and has been said above by post 39, the compressed video (which I have not seen) on hi-def TV broadcasts add video noise.

As long as the remastered Star Trek films are true representations of the film presentation, including film grain, sound and aspect ratio, etc, then I’m happy!

Paramount has done some great work on other classic films recently, so I am really looking forward to seeing Star Trek.

By: Steve Short

Steve Short — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:15:36 +0000

Are the remastered episodes on DVD the full length show or are they the shorten remastered ones you now see on tv that have been cut or edited?

By: Dave L

Dave L — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:41:01 +0000

#38 Those episodes have not aired yet..right now they are showing the two part storyline begining with the forge. #39 Well if the blu-rays will look even better then what I am seeing now then that is saying a lot cause what I see every day on HDNet is awesome to say the least

By: Sean4000

Sean4000 — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:36:46 +0000

True, Dom. Bad idea. It’s just that I don’t get HD Trek in New Orleans and really am itching to get some of this on Blu.
My local cable and sat does not carry HD ST. :(

By: Dom

Dom — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:25:45 +0000

Dave L (37) Hi Def TV broadcasts are heavily compressed compared with Blu-ray. In no way judge the disc release by what you see on a TV channel!

By: Sean4000

Sean4000 — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:24 +0000

Dave,

Have you seen the Enterprise Mirror Universe two-parter in HD? If so, how does it compare to the TOS-R project?

Take care,
Sean

By: Dave L

Dave L — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:55:04 +0000

Just wanted to make a small comment about hi def and Star Trek. I have Direct TV and there is a channel there called HDnet. They are showing Star Trek: Enterprise daily in hi-def. I have to say the quality is excellent. I have the entire series on DVD but it does not even start to look that good…one other thing is the channel shows the episodes un-cut and commercial free. So when Paramount releases that series on Blu-Ray I would imagine it would look pretty mush identical.

By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:11:21 +0000

Nelson ( 23)

“Grain is not a bad condition. Film has grain. You want grain.”

Yes, thank you. I work in the business. I know what grain is!

‘TMP does need restoration, but excessive digital removal of grain is not good.’

But equally, TMP has excessive grain for the quality of film stock on which it was shot: right now, on DVD, it looks like a several generations down dupe of a battered positive. I never said I wanted digital removal of grain, but a cleaned up new transfer would have the correct grain quality rather than look like the dog’s breakfast it is right now.