Tomalak wrote:
Prologic9 wrote:
All of this has to be created again, and that would in no way be the original show anymore.
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Well yes, that's self-evident. It was designed to be seen on a small 525 line CRT television in very much standard definition.
Any attempts to make it available in HD will mean it is no longer the "original" version. However, does this actually matter? Are you damaging the original creative intent by rescanning it all in high definition, and very probably altering the visual effects?
I would argue that the important thing is that the story and the creative intent remains the same. As long as the episodes are edited in the same way, and have effects which help to tell that story, it doesn't matter if someone has had to redraw a 1989 phaser blast on a computer in 2009.
Does it make it a "different" show? Technically, yes, but to all intents and purposes, of course not. |
Doesn't matter. The original episode, completely unaltered needs to remain available in the future.
I have no problem with newly created SFX, hell, I've wanted to see (proper, good) new SFX for some shows, like TOS myself for some time now.
However, the originals need to remain intact and available, for so many, many reasons. Thus the original SD shows should simply be on those discs as well.