Remastered TNG in widescreen?

[Rad]

When I watch the remastered TOS episodes off the Blue-ray DVDs, the videos have been reformatted for playback on a wide-screen TV. Love this!

When I watch the same episodes on Netflix or being rebroadcast on cable channels, along with TNG, DS9 and Voyager, they are presented in 480P format (broadcast/box window standard). Enterprise broadcasts in widescreen.

Question to the board: Has CBS remastered TNG, DS9 and Voyager in widescreen?

I recall that the team who remastered TOS was going to turn their attentions to TNG shortly after, but I have not heard or read anything concrete.

 

[Tosk]

When I watch the remastered TOS episodes off the Blue-ray DVDs, the videos have been reformatted for playback on a wide-screen TV.

They are still framed 4x3.

I recall that the team who remastered TOS was going to turn their attentions to TNG shortly after, but I have not heard or read anything concrete.

TNG has already been remastered and released. In 4x3.

Has CBS remastered TNG, DS9 and Voyager in widescreen?

No.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

@Rad, you must be watching those TNG blu-rays in stretch mode.

Neither TNG, DS9, Voyager or TOS has ever been reformatted for widescreen (although, for some odd reason, TOS-R's new effects are).

 

[Lance]

Tos-R has been 'cropped' to wide screen for syndication, but as far as I'm aware is presented in the original 4:3 in all official DVD and Blu-Ray releases. There are no commercial releases of Tos-R in widescreen format.

On a slightly related note, a question occured to me the other day that the movie-length TNG episodes (Encounter at Farpoint and All Good Things) were often stripped as two-parters in syndication, does anybody know if the new syndication packages with TNG-R are also presented as two parts?

 

[Trek Survivor]

On a slightly related note, a question occured to me the other day that the movie-length TNG episodes (Encounter at Farpoint and All Good Things) were often stripped as two-parters in syndication, does anybody know if the new syndication packages with TNG-R are also presented as two parts?

Yes. Coincidentally, SyFY in the UK has just started yet another rerun of the HD TNG remasters... "Encounter At Farpoint Part 2" was on last night.

 

[STR]

Tos-R has been 'cropped' to wide screen for syndication, but as far as I'm aware is presented in the original 4:3 in all official DVD and Blu-Ray releases. There are no commercial releases of Tos-R in widescreen format.

On a slightly related note, a question occured to me the other day that the movie-length TNG episodes (Encounter at Farpoint and All Good Things) were often stripped as two-parters in syndication, does anybody know if the new syndication packages with TNG-R are also presented as two parts?

Encounter at Far point is combined into one 90 minute episode for TNG-BR. I'm only at season 6, but I looked at the S7 episode guide and it lists All Good Things as one episode.

 

[Lance]

Encounter at Far point is combined into one 90 minute episode for TNG-BR. I'm only at season 6, but I looked at the S7 episode guide and it lists All Good Things as one episode.

I know it is on the blu rays, but I was asking about the syndication packages going out on TV (where traditionally both have been 'stripped' as two episodes.) Trek Survivor's post would seem to indicate that two-part versions of the remastered episodes have in fact been assembled for syndication?

 

[Rad]

We took in a "Trek Night" at a Regal Cinema for a "Big Screen!" showing of Encounter at Farpoint. There was a little pre-viewing intro (nothing more than rekindled media releases from way back when), and then the showing... of Encounter at Farpoint... yes on a movie theater screen... in 4:3 format. [sigh]

 

[TheSeeker]

A lot of older movies were shot in 4x3.

 

[BillJ]

I know it is on the blu rays, but I was asking about the syndication packages going out on TV (where traditionally both have been 'stripped' as two episodes.) Trek Survivor's post would seem to indicate that two-part versions of the remastered episodes have in fact been assembled for syndication?

The HD syndication package looks to be the same as the SD version. "Encounter at Farpoint" is shown in two parts.

 

[DonIago]

We took in a "Trek Night" at a Regal Cinema for a "Big Screen!" showing of Encounter at Farpoint. There was a little pre-viewing intro (nothing more than rekindled media releases from way back when), and then the showing... of Encounter at Farpoint... yes on a movie theater screen... in 4:3 format. [sigh]

So...it was presented as it was intended to be, and you're calling that a bad thing?

I saw "Best of Both Worlds" on the big screen. It was a grand ole time.

 

[Rad]

So...it was presented as it was intended to be, and you're calling that a bad thing?

I saw "Best of Both Worlds" on the big screen. It was a grand ole time.

It was okay... but we have a big-screen TV, if I put a pillow on the floor in front of the TV, it would have been the same experience. I was hoping to see something, perhaps, remastered for the venue.

 

[DonIago]

It was remastered, it just wasn't cropped to fully fit a 16:9 screen. Would you prefer losing parts of the image in favor of a widescreen frame?

 

[saladdays]

I would love to see TNG in widescreen, but they can't magically make it so (pun intended) without cutting the original picture size to fit widescreen formats. They can't just add in parts of the picture that isn't there.

 

[tomswift2002]

I wouldn't be surprised if CBS had widescreen masters made for syndication, but otherwise it's all 4:3 HD, which isn't bad.

And I just saw at Wal-Mart today that CBS has pushed out, besides a reissue of the TOS-R DVD's in the Enterprise with rainbow streak warp pattern cover, TNG's Season's 1, 2 & 3 in a blimp DVD set. From what I could tell, and from previous experience with a MacGyver set (that included Seasons 1 to 4 for that show), this appears to be a repackaging of Seasons 1 to 3 from the 2002 masters. But the copyright was 2016 CBS. It was $45 for the 3 seasons. Basically CBS has created new artwork, stuck it in a clear plastic case that is about as thick as the original 2002 box set, and then included all 20 discs in a big clear flipper inside. I haven't been able to, with the MacGyver one, find out if the other seasons are packaged this way or not, but these appear to be for brick-and-mortar stores only, as Zi have been unable to locate them online. But, besides TNG and MacGyver I've also seen JAG and a few other CBS/Paramount shows done up this way. Hopefully DS9 and Voyager will make an appearance in this format, since at $45 for basically half a series, it's a good deal.

 

[retroenzo]

One thing I have noticed now I'm watching TNG in HD is the moving stars behind the ringed planet in the opening sequence from season 3 onwards. I'm guessing it was because of the new opening sequence - I'm just amazed they couldn't match up the moving stars better. I have never noticed it before and now I see it every single time!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

One of the other times this came up, someone here posted images of 16:9 uncropped frames from TNG. There was offset stuff like microphones and light-stands in a lot of them.

I suppose that gave them more room to work with re: editing later.

 

[Lance]

One thing I have noticed now I'm watching TNG in HD is the moving stars behind the ringed planet in the opening sequence from season 3 onwards. I'm guessing it was because of the new opening sequence - I'm just amazed they couldn't match up the moving stars better. I have never noticed it before and now I see it every single time!

I thought it was an error of the remaster the first time I noticed it, but a caught a bit of a non remastered episode and noticed it was there on the original. I suppose it was a byproduct of blending newly shot elements with those from the original sequence.

 

[Tosk]

I'm just amazed they couldn't match up the moving stars better. I have never noticed it before and now I see it every single time!

Why do they need to be matched? It's not supposed to be one single camera move, it's a transition effect. Similar to the ones that happen when a star whites out the frame.

 

[JWPlatt]

When I watch the remastered TOS episodes off the Blue-ray DVDs, the videos have been reformatted for playback on a wide-screen TV. Love this!

You like watching a distorted image?

Tos-R has been 'cropped' to wide screen for syndication

Abomination!