This video is not my work, I am just sharing it here.
I have to agree. I would want all new special effects. Perhaps if the new Star Trek series is a success it may promote interest in DS9 once again. Hopefully we will one day see DS9 in HD.
DS9 on blu ray?
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I hope so. But I'm not holding my breath.
At the least, I wish we could get select Deep Space Nine and Voyager episodes in HD.
If they do that it might spark interest in DS9 in HD. CBS should do ‘Favour the Bold’, 'Sacrifice of Angels' and ‘Scorpion’.
Here are two short test videos of what Star Trek DS9s space battles might look like with more up to date CGI:
Good choices too, I was just trying to think of episodes that were heavy on special effects.
If CBS could give me the first 3 seasons on Blu? I'd be satisfied.
They would be relatively free from CGI too, so it would be a similar job to TNG, albeit there are lots of Odo morphs.
If you were going to do a promo disc again, Emissary would be the obvious starter. Or The Way of the Warrior.
That's more like 30-40 years. I still have VHS tapes from the mid-80's and early-90's (both pre-recorded & ones that were recorded off air) that still look and play fine for tapes recorded at SP, even a number of SLP recorded tapes that don't look as good as SP recordings, but I can still play the tapes, and I played them a lot growing up. That's a lot better than a number of DVD's that I've had to throw-out over the past few years, either due to DVD-rot or de lamination on commercial releases, to chemical breakdown on DVD-R's, and a lot of these discs I only had for about 6-7 years.
Plus I've transferred a number of VHS (even Betamax) tapes for people, and I've had people bring me tapes of Weddings that were shot in the late-70's that still played fine, even though they had been stored in the basement or against an outside wall, and looked great, aside from the fact that those 70's recordings were shot on camera's using vacuum tubes that led to a softer, more washed out image than more modern CCD and CMOS cameras.
Besides being interlaced, you are also seeing an image that has been sourced from a composite video. Neither DS9 or Voyager exist in true component video. So that also adds to the horrible video quality.
I love this scene. It isn't new CGI, just in case some don't know. It's the original CGI from DS9 re-exported in HD.
AFAIK its a fan made recreation, NOT using any original CGI assets - much like this HD recreation of the Voyager title sequence:
I only know of a single rerendered frame from original assets, showing a ship flyby, posted on TrekCore.
Maybe they're thinking the HD version of the series would be re-framed to 16:9 like the X-Files. But the X-Files was shot in such a way as to be "safe" in either aspect ratio. Voyager probably wasn't.
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Good enough - better than nothing !
An official one should be marginally better - at least one generation lower (from masters rather than DVD) and uncompressed...
Anyone remember what episode this scene is from?
I think it's from the final battle before the Cardassians switch sides from "What You Leave Behind".
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