Well, no wonder we don't see the Doctor anymore. He met his fans. That would scare anyone off.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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They should upgrade DS9 and VOY to HD, even if it's on the cheap.
Watching SD Reruns in the 2020s is like watching B&W Reruns in the 1980s.
Watching SD Reruns in the 2020s is like watching B&W Reruns in the 1980s.
LOL! I have done my job then. *bowing*
Upgrading to a new format is unnecessary and a waste of time and money. A good show is a good show and HD won't change that.
DS9: The blurry series...
TOS never needed HD remastering but since they were going to add new special effects it all worked out just fine. The series is gorgeous in both its original format and HD.
I found that DS9 actually looked fairly decent on Paramount+. My DVD's and streaming off other platforms (for some reason) all look much worse.
The quality in stresming any Trek has not detracted from my enjoyment, if noticable at all.
It was formatted for 4:3 TV on tape, not film. 480 interlaced lines. It was the first Trek not filmed on, film. Until computer technology gets better it will not improve.
Good.
Except that’s not why shows are upgraded. As picture quality gets better and better, eventually, older television productions won’t display well on a modern screen. We’re already seeing this occur with TV shows that were shot on videotape from decades ago.
So, while, yes, you’re absolutely right, that remastering a show into HD doesn’t make it “better” there are technical reasons to do it. Remastering a show helps to ensure it can be seen for decades to come.
And old youtube videos from the early days of the platform that looked decent or even good on old monitors but look super blurry on new ones. Same with some computer games.
One of my favorite comedy series of all time, Frasier, was shot entirely on film and has never been remastered to my knowledge. I own the entire series digitally and the first few seasons look absolutely dreadful on my TV and PC. I don’t know if the show has ever had a light remaster for broadcast, but, what is available either for purchase or streaming looks awful.
It has made no difference in my or my family's viewing...so I guess "better" is entirely subjective in terms of the technical side. Strikes me as a huge waste of time and resources.
Respectfully disagree that it’s a waste. It’s preserving the show.
Not if it is changing the show. That's nor preserving it. That's satisfying a very subjective desire for a particular quality. Which, I guess, I can sort of understand, but in a world of finite resources it is very difficult for me to say this has to be done.
I've barely watched DS9 since 2008.So long as they continue raking in dough in their present resolutions tptb are not goona move to improve them.
Best to just stop watching them, as in, dare I say it... some kind of boycott.
And I only re-watched the big Seven of Nine episodes of VOY in the lead-up to Picard.
So I already don't watch DS9 or VOY, for the most part. And a large part of it happens to be because I can't stand watching anything SD on Modern TVs.
We have different definitions of blurry...
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