Comments on: Star Trek Season 2 Blu-Ray Coming September 22nd + More Trek Home Video Announcements At Comic Con

By: woody

woody — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:08:06 +0000

59.99 right now at best buy and amazon and frys

By: AWB

AWB — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:26:25 +0000

To all those who are complaining about the price….get a better job.

By: Robert Vinci

Robert Vinci — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:57:47 +0000

Just bought Season 1 on Blu-Ray.
Excellent! Retail is much higher than the $60 I paid for it on eBay.
Watched it all – the Special Effects are Superb! Did not even bother watching the originals w/out the enhanced effects.
Just waiting anxiously for the other 2 Seasons now.
This was my first purchase for a new Blu-Ray player – a wise choice and no regrets. Don’t think twice about the Blu-Ray – get it – you won’t regret it!

By: Matt Wright

Matt Wright — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:14:45 +0000

75 — Dom, I know it. I’m basically making a similar argument. There was no point in suddenly making Voyager HD 3/4 of the way through the show’s run.

As you said SD will be around for quite a long time, likely forever, as archival stuff of older shows that can’t or aren’t profitable to be converted to higher resolution formats.

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:41:19 +0000

“Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The worst ever.”

-Heresy

By: woody

woody — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:12:38 +0000

My humble opinion from a man on the street

Star Trek TOS: Awesome

Star Trek TNG: Awesome until they started getting weird with that Jerry Taylor writer chick. They started to lose the edge after Roddenberry died.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The worst ever.

Star Trek Voyager: – I thought it coulndn’t get worse.

Star Trek Enterprise: Good but not awesome, i dont think it should have been cancelled.

By: woody

woody — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:56:31 +0000

33 . Enterprise has been running on HDNET on DirectTV uncut. I believe its in HD. But you guys already probably know this.

By: Dom

Dom — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:56:06 +0000

71. RD and 73. Matt Wright

Standard def’s going to be around for a good while yet: I was watching The X-Files on my 32″ 1080p TV via Blu-ray player and it looked great. People are getting way too steamed up way too early about HD.

You can still by SD TVs in the UK and most people are buying HD Ready TVs rather than Full HD. We’ve got a comfortable 20 years before SD material hits a critical point and by then I suspect TV, the web and radio will all be one and the same.

By: Sean4000

Sean4000 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:03:08 +0000

Damn, then Enterprise was ahead of its time!

By: Matt Wright

Matt Wright — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:11:11 +0000

71 — I don’t think you can say with any certainty that “most TV shows” in the late 90s/early 2000s were being produced in HD. The core primetime drama shows of the big 3 networks yes, the daytime, reality, and game shows, no. Fox didn’t do proper HD until 2004 and a piddly little network like UPN certainly wound’t have the funding to suddenly do HD. The WB’s catalogue is also nearly all SD shows until 2001 or later.

Don’t forget that the ATSC standard was only officially launched in 1998, and the first test signal was only a couple of years before it in 1996.

Also keep in mind that consumer adoption of HDTV really only reached mainstream status in 2005 or so.

So for a show that ended in 2001 on a second string broadcast network I think the choice to keep it SD isn’t very surprising at all.