ENTERPRISE on Blu-Ray OFFICIAL Discussion Thread

[RAMA]

BTW all, I asked Burnett in a message if theyre working on a documentary about the unproduced 5th season of Enterprise and I believe it'll be in later Bluray sets.

RAMA

[Warp Coil]

I won't lie, I'm kinda excited about this blu-ray release. I'm not a huge ENT fan and I'm not sure that I want to spend much money on this, but they certainly are loading it up with enough goodies that it makes the box look more and more appealing.

[ChristopherPike]

FrontierTrek wrote:

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And here's the last part to the interview:
http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/02/exc...view-part-v-2/

Hope you all enjoyed it!

That I did. Cheers.

[Reanok]

Fantastic interview thanks for sharing it with us.It was neat to read about all the Enterprise footage we've never seen before.That will be included on the the dvds.

[FrontierTrek]

Not long to go until release! Our review set arrived today and I'm thrilled with the quality of the packaging and menus, take a look at this new article I put together profiling them:

http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/03/ent...c-menu-images/

[ChristopherPike]

It's... all... so... staggeringly beautiful.

Thanks for the photos of the actual box art and screencaps of the opening Blu ray animation.

I was hoping they'd raise the figures on the card slipcase. Looks more attractive than I'd thought.

[RAMA]

Really looks amazing. What a good job they did.

[gaghyogi49]

I don't know. I don't like the color correction they did. Look how P'Jem has changed:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/13517

and sickbay is not white but purple now:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/13518

Move over to see the difference.

[ATimson]

gaghyogi49 wrote:

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I don't know. I don't like the color correction they did. Look how P'Jem has changed:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/13517

and sickbay is not white but purple now:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/13518

Move over to see the difference.

I'd say that Sickbay is now white, instead of the previous yellow, based on those screenshots! The new P'Jem color also looks more "right" to my eye.

[ChristopherPike]

Looks fantastic to me. Makes the DVDs seem like faded 1970s Eastmancolour by comparison.

[ChristopherPike]

Review up at Trekcore:
http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/03/rev...son-1-blu-ray/

Berman & Braga In Conversation looks like it'll be a highlight. Pity Shatner apparently priced himself out of the market, when they tried to get him onboard for one of TV Trek's last few storylines.

Then again, "In a Mirror Darkly" was one hell of a Plan B! Glad we didn't lose out on those episodes.

[StewMc]

Interesting review, though some of the VFX screen caps do indeed look like they are 480i(or p) shots that have been up-converted rather than the alleged 720p. Shots like this one, this one and this one look sourced from SD, where as shots like this one appear to be 720p up-converted.

Guess it did come down to time, as I'd imagine it would have taken much longer to render the VFX behind Daniels in HD than the Valakian City shot.

[RAMA]

It's unfortunate the up-res shows in some unavoidable aliasing, by that measure the transfers are not "perfect", however the comparisons really show an amazing vividness and clarity lacking in the DVD version. I'm still impressed.

[ChristopherPike]

StewMc wrote:

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Guess it did come down to time, as I'd imagine it would have taken much longer to render the VFX behind Daniels in HD than the Valakian City shot.

That's probably it exactly. Demands on a weekly television. I'll admit looking at some of the screencaptures and hearing about FX upscaling, my expectations about an improved experience watching the episodes themselves, have good gone down a notch. But it seems to be as good as it'll ever get. It was state of the art High Definition mastering a decade ago, when most of us weren't able to see it that way I guess. Episodes torrented back in 2004/5, regularly had that "UPN HD simulcast" logo onscreen. Going out in 720i presumably. TNG has the popularity to justify rebuilding everything from scatch, for today's benchmark of 1080p. What's frightening is the sheer amount of CG over modelwork, reliance on it even, during the last decade of Trek and how that'll either need to be similarly upscaled, completely redone or else episodes forever left as they are in SD.

[Aatrek]

This time around, it's definitely to be blamed on the original source rather than the current Blu-ray production. It's just unavoidable without re-rendering it all, I guess.