I've never heard the 'S' word used about TNZ before...
Looks like DS9 will not get Blu Ray
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The Neutral Zone. I don't know if Ensigns can get into it, you might need to have been on the boards longer or had more posts.
When I first started posting here, I kept thinking people were referring TMZ. I couldn't work out why people cared about it so much!
TMZ was my first thought as well
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The Neutral Zone. I don't know if Ensigns can get into it, you might need to have been on the boards longer or had more posts.
When I first started posting here, I kept thinking people were referring TMZ. I couldn't work out why people cared about it so much!
Hm... I'm a commodore, and I have no clue about The Neutral Zone..... Is it for paying members only maybe?
Squiggy;11192823. said:
Damn, I still want a 3D TV set and camcorder.
We've had one for three years and my daughter watched one movie in 3D on it in that time, Prometheus.
We'll be in the market for a new large screen TV in the basement next year - our youngest will finally be leaving the nest....small smile. Anyway, we have been considering a 3D TV but are still not sure if it's worth it, simply because there isn't a lot of 3D to watch. You pretty much have to buy 3D Blu-ray movies to make it worthwhile, and we just don't buy enough discs to make the investment beneficial.
I think you might be right with this. I wear glasses anyway, so I'm used to them, but wearing a 3D glasses over them used really annoying. I don't mind on occasion at the cinema for an "event", but in my own home I like to be as comfortable as possible. It's probably also the same for anyone without glasses as they aren't used to having anything there the majority of the time.
3D television is a fad, nothing more. It will pass.
4K, on the other hand, does seem to have its benefits - at least it will have them, when there is actually 4K content to feed the sets.
4K, on the other hand, does seem to have its benefits - at least it will have them, when there is actually 4K content to feed the sets.
I'm eagerly awaiting for 4K Blu-ray (if it ever arrives), until then there is some Netflix stuff in 4K, plus YouTube and something called UltraFlix that I haven't tried yet.
But that's part of the fun of 3D-having glasses to see it with (although I'll admit, when I do see a movie in 3D, i usually see it in IMAX 3D, as I did when I saw Ant-Man on Thursday night, as Real 3D is too dark.) I'm going to bet that 3D is great on TV vs. the movies, as you can get up close and personal with a 3D TV set and see the details. I still want to take pictures in 3D and see them on TV and I want to take video of places, people, and things in 3D and see them the same way (there's a local impresario here in Toronto who has been shooting pictures and films in 3D for a while now.) It's just still an amazing tech, even with the need for the glasses.
And I would say that you've jumped off the deep end and shut off your mental capacities when anyone challenges your view and points out that your arguments are based on extremely flimsy source material.
While Blu-Ray is still being marketed, as a whole, the format is "just holding" on, it is even closer to being dead than Vinyl Records are. Even now in 2015 it is amazing how a number of the top TV shows (such as CSI, NCIS, Sherlock, Elementary) are only being released on 480p Enhanced Definition DVD with no HD Blu Ray release, or they've only had 1 or 2 seasons released on Blu Ray, while the HD versions of the other seasons are available only by broadcast or streaming (i.e. iTunes, Netflix, Amazon); I've also noticed that over the past couple of years certain shows, whether they are SD or HD, are getting streaming-only releases (after releasing a couple of best-of discs in the early 2000', Disney released the entire 1994 Spider-Man series through iTunes in Canada about 2 years ago, even though it had been released in Europe on DVD. I've noticed other shows, such as Canada's Worst Driver and even Holmes on Homes (which Holmes had had the first 5 seasons released on DVD back in the mid-2000's) either have had their entire home video release by streaming only, or have switched from releasing DVD's to streaming only). Even Sony has gone on record as saying that Blu-Ray is the end of the line for disc- and physical-based video playback devices, as consumer demand has dropped quite a bit. Last Christmas I was looking for a laptop and I was expecting there to be for sale at my nearest computer store, an already built laptop with a Blu-Ray drive. It was surprising to find that there were no available Blu-Ray laptops, and even for DVD laptops the options were quite limited. Consumer demand for physical media is on the decline, and it would've been interesting to have seen what the sales were like had CBS released a 480p Enhanced Definition DVD version of the show as they remastered it (just like Enterprise, TOS-R and TAS were released on 480p ED DVD). The DVD sales probably would've exceeded the Blu-Ray sales. But overall, physical media is dying (according to the most recent figures, in 2012 consumers spent just $8.2 billion on discs, while in 2013 that figure dropped to $7.2 billion, representing only 64% of all sales of TV series and movies, compared to 2004 where 96% of sales was for physica media.)
And seeing as how Blu-ray is nearly dead, when CBS does remaster DS9 and Voyager in 1080p, I wouldn't be surprise that they discontinue the production of bonus features, or only commission 1 bonus feature.
But studios do reassign teams while they are taking a look at the financial situation of a property. As I recall, after TOS-R was finished, the team was assigned to work on the CSI franchise.
^I'm not out to dispute your point about blu-ray here, but I would like to point out that all 3 series of Sherlock have been released on blu-ray. Well, at least in the UK they have can't be certain about the US.
That's pretty noticeable already. When DVD started, bonus features were just that - to entice to viewer to upgrade from VHS, or decide to watch something again. In DVD's heyday, the special features were practically a selling point in themselves. I've got discs where I've never even watched the main feature.
Now studios seem to have realised that VAM is a waste of money for them - people don't watch behind the scenes documentaries on Netflix or iTunes, and they aren't available. It obviously isn't hurting download sales. Even blu-rays don't seem to have as many extras as DVD had five or ten years ago - the STID blu-ray was a good example.
The Beeb is an honourable exception, but it'll be interesting to see if that continues when the long awaited BBC Online Store finally launches.
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