Comments on: New Star Trek Blu-ray and DVD Sets Available for Pre-order

By: Jon B

Jon B — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:10:44 +0000

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Star-Trek-Season-1-Blu-ray/11397

The back of the box set. Pretty cool. I love how, they have pictures from both versions, but are actually including both this time.

By: Matt Wright

Matt Wright — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:34:24 +0000

geeze 64, I just linked to our article here and the on The Digital Bits that answers your questions like 3 posts up.

By: Requiem1971

Requiem1971 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:37:03 +0000

SO I take it the Theatrical versions means that its origional TMP and not the extended directors edition; and TWK origional and not extended directors cut and so forth and so on for the others. The movies in these blue rays are just the origional cuts. Does anyone know the answer to this???

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:52:47 +0000

I see the Amazon price has dropped already, now $80.99

By: Jon B

Jon B — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:16:35 +0000

There’s a trailer for the Season 1 set on the Amazon page, which is very cool. Definitely worth a look.

By: Matt Wright

Matt Wright — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:29:22 +0000

60 — Asked and answered in post 57 which was a reply to your post #22. Also it’s in the press release that was posted here and the digitabits last week…

“Billy Blackburn’s Treasure Chest: Rare Home Movies and Special Memories”

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/mytwocentsa165.html#startrekannouncehttp

http://trekmovie.com/2009/02/16/cbs-paramount-announce-first-star-trek-blu-ray-sets-tos-s1-all-tos-movies-coming-aprilmay/

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:18:57 +0000

I ask again…does this include the Billy Blackburn home movies?

By: Anthony Thompson

Anthony Thompson — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:22:11 +0000

55.

That’s good news because the theatrical version of 6 didn’t appear on the VHS, DVD or Special Edition DVD. I’m glad that Paramount is finally rectifying that.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:00:57 +0000

56 — Thanks much, Matt. Makes sense. Much appreciated.

Gary

By: Matt Wright

Matt Wright — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:07:30 +0000

22 — Yep Billy Blackburn’s home movies are there, they were part of the HD DVD set too.

As to the Blu-ray player question. Hang on until later in the spring/early-summer. Lots of decent BD players will be available for ~$200-$250.
You can find a good one now for $250 is you wait for a nice sale.

I personally really like my Panasonic BD-35 (which is about to replaced this spring so it might be on closeout if you check Fry’s, etc.). It only cost me $280 back in December.

The super cheap models (house brands like Insignia, or Olevia, etc.) you have to be a bit weary of because Blu-ray players need good support, new movies sometimes break a player and a firmware update needs to be issued (growing pains of a new format, DVD went through a similar period). The cheap brands don’t really update much if it all, which is a huge mistake. So if you stick to Panasonic, Sony, and Samsung they all update pretty regularly. Especially Panasonic and Sony.

Vizio is about to introduce what appears to be a killer Blu-ray player for the price in April/May-ish for $199. They’re well known for making reasonable budget flat panel TVs so the hope is that they will also make (and support/update) a nice decent BD player as well.