Comments on: New Best Of TOS & TNG DVD Sets Announced + More TOS S2 Blu-ray Details + Paramount Joins RedBox

By: RD

RD — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:59:00 +0000

Looks like Galaxy Quest Blu-Ray will be released by Paramount on November 17th too, along with Star Trek. Balls-y. Looks like Paramount announced this on Friday.

http://www.thehdroom.com/news/Galaxy_Quest_Blu-ray_Details_and_Cover_Art/5646

By: Dom

Dom — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:44:23 +0000

57. Ensign RedShirt: In fairness, Enterprise is in HD, so the mirror universe episodes would be a fun bonus with The Tholian Web on a Star Trek season three set. TNG, DS9 and Voy, however are very much of their time and in SD.

I’m disappointed that CBS listened to a bunch of whining, anal fanboys and changed the design of the Star Trek season two Blu-ray. It looks plain ugly now. Vital lesson for CBS: fans are buttholes. Ignore us!!

By: Mario from MA

Mario from MA — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:00:57 +0000

Honestly, I could never see the appeal of “Cause and Effect” from TNG. It was so redundant!!

By: Ensign RedShirt

Ensign RedShirt — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:25:30 +0000

54-

You have, unfortunately, hit the nail on the head. All the spinoffs are trapped in their native resolution because they were mastered on video. TOS (and TAS) were mastered on film, hence why it has a nice clean HD presentation.

By: John from Cincinnati

John from Cincinnati — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:59:17 +0000

I assume all those Hollywood writers and directors got into show business because they are not detail-oriened or else they would’ve all become engineers.

By: John from Cincinnati

John from Cincinnati — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:58:22 +0000

Why is it that nitpicky Trekkers get bashed?

Is it wrong to pay attention to details? What if all of our officers watching our nuclear reactors didn’t care about details?

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:13:32 +0000

According to everything I’ve heard, while the live action footage on the TNG era series were shot on film, the special effects were either shot on analog or digital video and then edited onto video with the live action elements and are thus limited to the resolution and format in which the final edited episodes are in. Thus, there’s no hope for true HD transfer unless CBS is willing to shell out at least twice the average cost of the TOS project per episode to not only redo the special effects in HD resolution, but to also recover the original film negatives for each episode and re-edit each episide with the remastered effects shots. Not saying it’s an impossible prospect, but it would be a huge investment of time and money on CBS’ part and with “Nemesis” being a flop, it’s probably an investment they’re not that confident in.

By: Sean4000

Sean4000 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:21:51 +0000

They might not want to put In a Mirror Darkly on the same disk as TOS-R. EdenFX put CBS-D to shame!

By: Thomas Jensen

Thomas Jensen — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:17:22 +0000

#44 That’s a very smart idea!

By: ChristopherPike

ChristopherPike — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:58:44 +0000

45: I don’t know. CBS don’t seem to be looking beyond TOS & TNG for some reason. Marketing their films in separate sets, JJ Abrams’ film as a standalone and TOS-R in connection. Surely ENT S4 requires zero effort to put out on Blu ray, since it was both filmed and broadcast in HD. :(