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>>4295 (OP)

>no DS9 or Voyager blurays because Star Trek fans were too jewish to buy the TNG sets

(((Paramount))) wants $121.05 USD on Amazon for North American TNG Blu-Ray boxset.

I can buy the UK Region Free TNG Blu-Ray set for about $65 with shipping to USA

>>4297

>Who the fuck cares? Torrents, Jewflix, etc. provide everything you could ever hope for, anyway. Or are you that desperate for the commentary

>OP's point went right over your head.

DS9 and Voyager are only available in old SD tape mastered episodes. TOS/TNG have been remastered in HD for blu-ray.

DS9 and Voyager will probably never see HD versions, at least for the immediate future. Scanning costs are quickly coming down in price, the main hangup for DS9 is needing to remaster so many CGI shots.

>>4295 (OP)

That's because nothing makes anyone shy away from a produt faster than the word "remaster" due to the actions of George Lucas.

>>4320

>produt

Product* fuck, I can't speel :^)

>>4320

>That's because nothing makes anyone shy away from a produt faster than the word "remaster" due to the actions of George Lucas.

At least in the case of the TOS they included the original effects and the updated versions. The Roddenberry Vault also remastered original mono for some of the TOS episodes, a feature that wasn't part of the complete series and seasons blu-rays.

Terminator 2 3D has been playing in theaters this week, a 4K restoration as a base, then a fine tuned 3D conversion which was very well done. I didn't read much before hand, and only saw it once so I didn't notice the change, but Cameron fixed the windshields popping out of the tow truck continuity according to online sources which claimed that was the only change.

I always tend to notice the front drive axle snapping as the truck hits the ground, then it's fixed in the next scene and I was looking for that, and it was the same, but didn't even notice the windshields til I went home and read the Internet. I dislike that kind of Lucas revisionism, but I'll let it pass as long as there's the option on the blu-ray release to play the unfixed version (no information available to suggest that).

>>4295 (OP)

Only one DS9 episode was remastered (Trials and Tribble-ations).

>>4332

>Only one DS9 episode was remastered (Trials and Tribble-ations)

I remember running across HD scans of those on the web, and it makes sense for that episode since much was TOS integrated scene. Was that episode include as extra on a TOS or TNG blu-ray release?

If we ever do get remastered versions of the post-TNG shows, I just hope that they don't jack up the color saturation the way they did with TNG. It causes the TV makeup to be painfully obvious in close-up shots of the characters.

capcha: jewrkn

>>4342

Color saturation really changed the look of the uniforms. Instead of "red" in TNG they look Crimson now I know they were made crimson so they would appear red at the time but still, fucks the colour balance up

>>4342

>I just hope that they don't jack up the color saturation the way they did with TNG

The HD versions are actually the way it is intended to look, NTSC (Analog SD TV) had a very limited color palette. UltraHD (Rec. 2020) has an even deeper color palette that uses proper channel depths instead of the "shorthand" as NTSC (Rec. 601) and HD (Rec. 709) rely on coefficients, complex math to save signal space that trades off color accuracy for less data transmission.

All Star Trek anons should be capable of downloading and calibrating their TV display as well.

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/139-display-calibration/948496-avs-hd-709-blu-ray-mp4-calibration.html

Why should you bother doing that? All TV's pretty much come in "display" mode out of the box, that means features that are rather useless and counterproductive to actual TV content viewing, features like VIVID and Interpolation need to be shutoff. Standard adjustments also tend to be accentuated to maximize the appearance of the TV next to other models it would be set next to under a fully lighted department store setting to outdue its competitor, while in actuality, most content ends up being displayed as such an abomination that many film directors and cinematographers cringe at the thought of viewers seeing their work presented like that.

tl;dr - calibrate your fucking TV newfags

>>4332

>>4333

Wasn't remastered, it's just an upscale from what I've seen.

>>4519

Makes sense, on the smaller buttons of the consoles the de-interlacing artifacts are still noticeable.

I haven't seen TNG HD, so something I'm a little curious on.

I have the .mkv format DS9 files that probably a lot of anons have, I assume they're a DVD rip. My analyzer says they have a video pixel size of 720x480 and display size of 636x480. At this resolution, the makeup quality looks worse. The Ferengi prosthetics look a bit pulpy, and you can see Jadzia's spots just look like standard body paint/ henna. Cardassians still look pretty good even at detail, aside from the neck ridge lines painted onto their necks.

Then again, I mean, if you like to see that shit, it's a positive. You could say it adds to the experience. Just sayin' though, it's going to look faker.

Also, wouldn't they have to redo all the CGI? Not just the pew-pew shit but stuff like Odo or any changeling when they were changing or entering gel state. I mean (and you'll have to bear with me here, I'm not a seasoned studio pro like you guys) with a lot of the CGI being kinda cutting edge in the late 90s, they did a lot with having CGI superinterposed on film sequences of actors. If you were going to redo the CGI, wouldn't you need the original film sequence as it was, prior to the CGI being superimposed? If it's something like Odo extending his arm 10 feet to butt-slap a criminal, and assuming you're missing the original footage, and all you have is a 480p video of post-effects work, then would it even be possible to brush out the low-res CGI arm, superimpose a high-res CGI arm, and somehow make it match the low-resolution footage of Auberjonois?

>>4585

Interesting, thanks.