Join the boycott of "Discovery" blu-rays until we get our beloved DS9 and Voyager Blu-Rays!

[Turd Ferguson]

I'm way ahead of you! I already plan to boycott the remasters of MacGyver AND Charmed until we get our DS9 and VOY Blu-Rays (preferably in 4K!) Hopefully this will also relay to CBS that I want a 4K remaster of all seasons of The Young and the Restless and Magnum P.I.!

 

[Tuskin38]

Nope. The Klingons in the first episode looked like sadistic Christmas trees in their armor. And they were boring. I don't need to wade through more of that to get to what's supposed to be good.

It gets good after the premier. So you don't need to wade through anything.

They're also changing up the Klingon look in Season 2.

 

[BillJ]

It gets good after the premier.

That's a matter of personal taste...

 

[Tuskin38]

That's a matter of personal taste...

Obviously

 

[Refuge]

Too late, I have spent good money on what is now an archaic DVD set of the Voyager series, so if it were to come out blu-ray the stingy side of me would not permit me to buy more copies.

 

[RedAlert]

I don't want any of those at all, nevermind wasting so much money on Blurays no one will watch.

"No one"????
Speak for everyone is presuntous and arrogant, I think.

But I think that if DSC BRDiscs sells good, maybe, CBS could think that are market to the other series of the saga.

 

[Jayson1]

Okay I guess we are now onto Plan B of the Plan B plan. Now we will boycott watching "Garth from Notre Dame" that airs on CBS-All-Access, December 2. I mean I do like a great deal of Garth Brooks music but I can't say I planned to watch a concert on tv. Then we send them emails that we will boycott future shows as well until they give into our demands.


Jason

 

[RedAlert]

Blurays are on their way out (theoretically) so you shouldn't upgrade to Bluray, when it's very superior replacement is just around the corner.

But if Bluray sales are poor on any one series, then the next physical medium won't carry that series.

Well... I see it this way:
I am in my middles 40s... the time to enjoy Star Trek (and other stuffs that i love) is now.
Now.

I dont have intentions to wait some years to enjoy that, waiting for a ramdom -maybe better- format that could be here sooner or later.
The time is now, and now, the Blurays give me the quality that I'm looking for.
I refuse to pay streaming for something that never will be mine.

So, the answer is there: blurays is the better format to get Trek today.
I cross my fingers to have DS9 and VOY blurays... for time now, I still enjoying my old dvds versions.... but as Justin says: never say never.

 

[Admiral2]

It gets good after the premier. So you don't need to wade through anything.

They're also changing up the Klingon look in Season 2.

How 'bout if I just take your word for it and not give CBS any more of my money just to confirm it?

 

[Charlie Kelly]

There're never going to do it sadly. DS9/VOY would cost a lot more to release on blu-ray than TNG because both shows switched to CGI for space shots and they only rendered it in SD. Also TNG was a much more popular show and it's blu-ray sales were disappointing. It's the same reason they didn't release the director's edition of TMP on blu-ray, because the new CGI was only rendered in SD.

 

[Kor]

Now is time to rise up brothers and sisters of the Trekbbs and finally get CBS to give up what we want. We refuse to by so much as one disk of "Discovery" until we get the special treatment for DS9/Voyager. The thing is we will be fair. They give us what we want and then we give them what they want and then we all buy "Discovery" Blu-Rays even if you don't want them. For me it will be seen as a win-win-win answer to our dreams. Don't worry about the money. If things get tight I am sure T'Bonz will be so inspired by our plight and choose to help cover any expenses we might not have expected.


Jason

I don't see how one is related to the other.

There're never going to do it sadly. DS9/VOY would cost a lot more to release on blu-ray than TNG because both shows switched to CGI for space shots and they only rendered it in SD. Also TNG was a much more popular show and it's blu-ray sales were disappointing. It's the same reason they didn't release the director's edition of TMP on blu-ray, because the new CGI was only rendered in SD.

It's not just a matter of the special effects; the entire shows themselves were mastered on videotape.

Kor

 

[The Old Mixer]

Okay I guess we are now onto Plan B of the Plan B plan. Now we will boycott watching "Garth from Notre Dame" that airs on CBS-All-Access, December 2.

To paraphrase a popular meme, my days of leaving this thread open are coming to a middle.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

So, the answer could be simple: everybody go buy TOS, TNG, ENT and DISCO Blu-rays for themselves and loved ones for Christmas and CBS will have no choice but to release DS9 and VOY!

 

[Jayson1]

So, the answer could be simple: everybody go buy TOS, TNG, ENT and DISCO Blu-rays for themselves and loved ones for Christmas and CBS will have no choice but to release DS9 and VOY!

Well that could work but then what is left for us to boycott?

Jason

 

[ALF]

I love your threads, Jason.
While I'd love to be the first to join you in this unpopular boycott, I had a revelation this week regarding Trek in standard definition and I'm sticking (doubling down, actually) with the DS9/VOY series on DVD as they are. Under-celebrated/appreciated Trek in all it's dreary 480i.

 

[Jayson1]

I love your threads, Jason.
While I'd love to be the first to join you in this unpopular boycott, I had a revelation this week regarding Trek in standard definition and I'm sticking (doubling down, actually) with the DS9/VOY series on DVD as they are. Under-celebrated/appreciated Trek in all it's dreary 480i.

Sure you don't want to downgrade to VCR tapes and i'm not talking about official ones that would come from Columbia House I believe it was. I mean copies people recorded off their tv and somehow those tapes are still around.


Jason

 

[Tuskin38]

How 'bout if I just take your word for it and not give CBS any more of my money just to confirm it?

you could read the summaries on Memory-Alpha, they're usually unbiased.

And there are pictures of the Season 2 klingons all over the web.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Better way to protest would be to make sure The Orville boxset sells better, show that we've had enough of dark dystonian sci-fi and want something instead to aspire too.

 

[DS9forever]

I don't have much interest in Discovery but I bought the Blu-ray to show CBS people still like physical media.

DS9 on Blu-ray please!

 

[Kemaiku]

Better way to protest would be to make sure The Orville boxset sells better, show that we've had enough of dark dystonian sci-fi and want something instead to aspire too.

Or they just make Family Guy in space some more and we get a future of fart jokes and no story at all.