Star Trek on VHS
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Ya and the cuts are even worse now than they were then
Indeed they are - it's pretty bad sometimes. I don't actually watch episodes on TV any more, although I will leave an episode on playing in the background while I'm doing something else.
It's a money issue for me. Blu-ray blows the TNG DVDs (especially the UK ones) out of the water from what I've seen of the HD footage. More of an issue is that the DVDs are overscan safe, so on an HD TV with overscan off (which is how I always have it), TNG episodes have things like boom mikes hanging in shot, set dressing at the sides, actor's marks on the floor all visible at the edges. But, they're good enough for casual viewing, and I won't save any shelf space by replacing them, as opposed to the VHS tapes.
And, I still have two CRT sets (one 4:3) and a DVD player to watch them on.
We reach.
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That's fine guys. I find the Blu-Rays, with the branching technology and HD presentation have been well worth the expense. After nine years, I got more than my value from the DVD sets and was happy to be able to re-sell them back to the used video store too.
I remember seeing them in the early 90's here in the UK, mostly black covers with a screengrab from one of the episodes on the front.
I remember there being two copies for The Cage, the B/W and Colour versions, with appropriate image on the cover. Both where single episode tapes.
I only had one after a while, Amok Time/Adonis which was volume 17 I think. That's gone now too, but I do still have the complete 40 volume orange region 1 TOS DVD's and the newer region B Blurays.
I remember there being two copies for The Cage, the B/W and Colour versions, with appropriate image on the cover. Both where single episode tapes.
I only had one after a while, Amok Time/Adonis which was volume 17 I think. That's gone now too, but I do still have the complete 40 volume orange region 1 TOS DVD's and the newer region B Blurays.
Same here, except I gave my DVD sets to my daughter after buying the Blu-ray's.
I still have in my closet the entire run on Laserdisc, which are my preferred viewing copies (I transferred the lot to DVD-R), also the first 3 volumes of the 1980 5 volume set, the CBS Video Library volumes and the entire "black box" run on VHS.
Also the individual DVDs, the DVD season sets, the DVD TOS-R sets and, finally, the Blu-Ray sets. I wound up keeping them all as "a collector." However, I still pop in a DVD copy since I think the original effects look better at lower resolution than on superdy-duperdy HD.
Maybe you are, but the day CBS/Paramount releases the series with the actual original sound mix included, with the right logos and credit music intact, is the day I will say I have bought Star Trek for the last time.
Also the individual DVDs, the DVD season sets, the DVD TOS-R sets and, finally, the Blu-Ray sets. I wound up keeping them all as "a collector." However, I still pop in a DVD copy since I think the original effects look better at lower resolution than on superdy-duperdy HD.
Maybe you are, but the day CBS/Paramount releases the series with the actual original sound mix included, with the right logos and credit music intact, is the day I will say I have bought Star Trek for the last time.
I've always wanted TOS and TNG on DVD, but now I have everything on Hulu Plus. Is there a lot of good extras that would make it worth it?
I do love behind the scenes, bloopers and outtakes.
I do love behind the scenes, bloopers and outtakes.
The price has dropped massively on the TOS Blu-rays and will be falling for the TNG Blu-rays. I'd say now is a good time to invest.
I've always wanted TOS and TNG on DVD, but now I have everything on Hulu Plus. Is there a lot of good extras that would make it worth it?
I do love behind the scenes, bloopers and outtakes.
TOS Blu-ray's have the Billy Blackburn home movies, season three has a different version of "Where No Man..." and there are various other extras on the remastering project itself.
I found the ad:
https://archive.org/stream/starlog_magazine-102/102#page/n71/mode/2up
The VHS edition STARLOG was selling was single-episode, not two per tape. They were probably just retailing the Paramount tapes like any other video store.
https://archive.org/stream/starlog_magazine-102/102#page/n71/mode/2up
The VHS edition STARLOG was selling was single-episode, not two per tape. They were probably just retailing the Paramount tapes like any other video store.
I can't wait to get my hands on "Court-Marshall"!
Or it's just a typo. I screw it up all the time.
I had the entire Paramount Home Video Collection on VHS, and I still have most on VHS and even DVD too.
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