CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar 2 - Electric Boogaloo-Fanboys gone WILD-too many hyphens

So basically like what CBS television got from the lawyers for the guy who says CBS stole his ideas and incorporated them into Discovery.

 

No. What they got was an order to turn over a limited amount of discoverable info (listed by the Judge) - and they sat on fulfilling said order to the point the Plaintiff complained; and CBS also claimed a lot of the discovery they received from the Plaintiff was bogus; so the Judge sat both sides down and said, "Work it out, and give me a status report..." - which both sides did.

What Mr. Peters got was an notification not to destroy or alter evidence as RMB's lawyer has reason to believe a lawsuit may be served against his client; and the Lawyer can use that notification in court (should RMB actually be served and Litigation begun) if Mr. Peters tries to claim "I don't have it because I saw no reason to keep it..." OR what he submits conflicts with hard evidence RMB has on hand.

Thus no, the situation isn't similar because in the first situation the courtroom Litigation is in process in front of a Judge; while in Mr. Peter's situation, yes, he's filed in GA, BUT the Defendant named has yet to be officially/properly served legal notice of said lawsuit, (which has to happen BEFORE the case is assigned to a Judge and actual in court Litigation of the case starts).

 

Well, M*A*S*H ran for 11 years, although the actual Korean War lasted only three. So...



yes?

 

Yeah, I believe one of the M*A*S*H TV producers stated there were more episodes of M*A*S*H then there were days in the Korean War.

 

Well, that would have been an exaggeration. (Wikipedia says 256 episodes.)

But I can imagine someone saying it followed by laugh track laughter and giggling afterwards.

 

There lies so much gold in this comment.
Bravo, Sir!

 

I didn't know this was a thing that I needed but here we are

 

As an aside (and I think I've mentioned this before on a TV thread), when the BBC first showed M*A*S*H in the UK, they showed it without the laughter track, so I didn't know one existed! It's jarring to see episodes on satellite TV these days with one!

 

There are versions of MASH without a laugh track?? Damn! I had no idea either. Learn something new every day!

 

One more aside and then I'm done! Do the DVD or Blu Ray sets (if Blu Ray sets exist) of M*A*S*H have an option to turn off the laughter track?

 

I have the old DVD box set. I will check. I don’t think a BluRay is available.

 

There's no point in a Blu-ray for a standard definition show like that, unless you're trying to cram an entire season onto one disk.

 

Yup, just about every episode has the option to turn off the laugh track (there's one they only had the broadcast version of the episode available) - and that's the only way I've watched the show since the DVDs first came out.

Much like TNG, M*A*S*H was filmed on 35mm celluloid. Compare the visual quality of the episodes on DVD to the unremastered TNG episodes - there's a big difference. I believe Fox went back to the original prints of the episodes, not the broadcast prints. "Standard definition" is meaningless for anything other than the discs its distributed on.

 

I know you're using that to mean "film" but they shot it on acetate safety film. Celluloid is too unstable and hasn't been used as motion picture film stock since the 50s.

 

Did some digging and it seems you're right. Probably would be a lot cheaper than TNG too, because it doesn't have all the visual effects to separately recomposite. Of course, even if they do re-scan the film in higher resolution, they may just put it up for HD streaming and/or iTunes instead of making it available on Blu-ray. "M*A*S*H, remastered in HD! Only on Hulu!"

 

The live action in TNG was all on film, yes; BUT said film was transferred to Betacam SP (the TV broadcast professional version of the format used in 1987); and the show (and the visual effects too) was edited and composited on said videotape and there were no film masters of the completed episodes. <--- That's one reason the HD version of TNG was so expensive to do (and why they first tried upscaling of the Master Tapes, which looked like a$$.)

 

But the VFX ship elements were on film, right?

 

The stuff done by ILM was probably all filmed and transferred. In the 3rd season when Paramount started using other companies and some in house stuff for a time, some of that may have been directly shot and composited on video.