On my TOS Blu Ray whole series set, just bought about a month ago, on season 2 when it's set on original effects it shows instead the remastered effects for the first half second or so, then switches to original for the rest of the episode. This happens on all the episodes in season 2, not just some. Has this happened to others? Do I have a weirdly defective Blu Ray set or a Blu Ray player with a bug in it?
Blu-Ray in original effects shows remastered for first instant?
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Sounds like slow initialization logic in the player's firmware where it only decides to initialize on the first instance of a seamless branch instead of initializing immediately after selecting the version you want to see. The default version plays until the seamless branch event code catches up. I'd guess when you set it on remastered effects, there's no half-second of original effects? Make sure your firmware is up to date and check with the manufacturer about the problem.
Another good reason for me not to update my collection to Blu-Ray!
JB
JB
Yes. There's a ton of logic in continuing to watch an inferior version which is 51 minutes long over a half-second miscue at the beginning of the episode. A miscue that doesn't even show up on all players.
I love watching TOS on Blu-ray.
It plays fine on my blu-ray player, like others have suggested, it's probably the firmware.
I purchased the blu-rays about a year ago and they are stunning. Haven't watched DS9 or Voyager in ages, simply because they look so rubbish on a big telly. Re-watching TOS and TNG in HD is unbridled joy, they are gorgeous to look at and the sound remix is brilliant.
I purchased the blu-rays about a year ago and they are stunning. Haven't watched DS9 or Voyager in ages, simply because they look so rubbish on a big telly. Re-watching TOS and TNG in HD is unbridled joy, they are gorgeous to look at and the sound remix is brilliant.
When it's time to replace your DVD player, you'd be insane not to get a Blu-ray.
- A Blu-ray machine will play your DVDs beautifully, while a DVD machine will not play whatever Blu-ray discs come your way. You don't have to update your collection! Your existing DVDs are fine on a Blu-ray player.
- A name-brand, quality Blu-ray player is priced lower than you probably think. In the U.S., you can get a good one for about $60.
By historical standards, that's incredibly affordable. Look at this VCR ad from 1981:
The price of that VCR in 1981 would be the equivalent of $3680 in today's money, a huge financial commitment for most families:
Put another way, the $60 we might pay for a Blu-ray player would be like spending $23 in 1981, compared to a $1380 VCR. Adjusted for inflation (in constant dollars), a Blu-ray player costs us 1/60th of what that VCR cost.
So you're denying yourself the added capability of Blu-ray for what amounts to pocket change, assuming the economics of this in the U.K. are at all similar to the U.S.
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Yeah, but VCRs came down in price very rapidly once there were tapes available to buy. They came down to about $400 within a year, if memory serves. $400 might seem like a lot, but they were built to last. One I bought about '84 lasted 25 years. I wish I could get that kind of life out of one I bought now, not because it would save money so much as save the effort of shopping for one again.
When it's time to replace your DVD player, you'd be insane not to get a Blu-ray.
- A Blu-ray machine will play your DVDs beautifully, while a DVD machine will not play whatever Blu-ray discs come your way. You don't have to update your collection! Your existing DVDs are fine on a Blu-ray player.
- A name-brand, quality Blu-ray player is priced lower than you probably think. In the U.S., you can get a good one for about $60.
By historical standards, that's incredibly affordable. Look at this VCR ad from 1981:
The price of that VCR in 1981 would be the equivalent of $3680 in today's money, a huge financial commitment for most families:
Put another way, the $60 we might pay for a Blu-ray player would be like spending $23 in 1981, compared to a $1380 VCR. Adjusted for inflation (in constant dollars), a Blu-ray player costs us 1/60th of what that VCR cost.
So you're denying yourself the added capability of Blu-ray for what amounts to pocket change, assuming the economics of this in the U.K. are at all similar to the U.S.
Thing is my son has a Blu disc and we played that on his X-box and to me it didn't seem that much better than a DVD! The colours were deeper yes but the picture quality wasn't that good! But we tried an old Doctor Who disc in it and it did seem a lot clearer I'll agree with you there but it's the cost and the like for starters plus the wife has told me no!
JB
Don't you have your own money to spend? Guess I've got an advantage having a wife that likes new technology as much as I do. Getting a UHD player to go with my 4K TV after Christmas.
Depends on the TV you watch it on (HD I hope), and it also depends on the disc. Now if the Blu-ray happened to be High Road to China, then I'll give you that the DVD will look better. You also have to set up the TV to watch Blu-rays. If you have Tru motion or Motion smoothing turned on, then it will look crap. Basic hint. Turn off all the image enhancement crap that modern TVs have (if possible, watch it in Game mode, as that will reduce the lag as much as possible, meaning all the standard image enhancement that is on by default even if you turn off the user accessible options, that will be turned off too). And just get a basic feed from the Blu-ray player to the TV. That's how movies are meant to be watched.
Yep, me too. One Sony, one Panasonic, one Samsung, latest firmware.
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