You mean the wildly popular one?^ That's their attitude towards Star Trek fans in general.
Case in point: the last movie.
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I'll be surprised if it's that cheap, tbh
Ack, I missed that.
In the UK, I imagine the full retail price will be £21.99 (£$35) as we're usually treated as gullible rubes who'll gladly pay through the nose.
I'll be surprised if it's that cheap, tbh
Ack, I missed that.
In the UK, I imagine the full retail price will be £21.99 (£$35) as we're usually treated as gullible rubes who'll gladly pay through the nose.
Amazon in Germany have listed it at €13.99, which is about £12. I expect that it will be identical to the UK version, but Amazon UK haven't listed it yet.
http://www.amazon.de/Star-Trek-Gene...KLG4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317758234&sr=8-1
£12 or maybe even £13.99 would be okay.
I'll be surprised if it's that cheap, tbhAck, I missed that.
In the UK, I imagine the full retail price will be £21.99 (£$35) as we're usually treated as gullible rubes who'll gladly pay through the nose.
Amazon in Germany have listed it at €13.99, which is about £12. I expect that it will be identical to the UK version, but Amazon UK haven't listed it yet.
http://www.amazon.de/Star-Trek-Generation-Einblick-n%C3%A4chste/dp/B005OUKLG4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317758234&sr=8-1
£12 or maybe even £13.99 would be okay.
No Chance. I remember paying £13.99 for Volume 65 (Man of the People, Relics) of TNG on VHS back in the early 90's (Funny what sticks in your brain...
) from WHSmiths. I think you'll be right with £21.99. Probably more in HMV too.
I surprised that HMV haven't gone under yet with the competition from Internet sites like Play and Amazon. I guess there must just be enough impulse-buyers left around to keep them ticking over after Woolies and Zaavi bit the dust.
ETA: I was just thinking about which episodes from the first two seasons I'd want to watch again in HD.
I think it's only a handful from each, which makes me doubt that the outlay is worth it for me until at least the third season.
ETA: I was just thinking about which episodes from the first two seasons I'd want to watch again in HD.
I think it's only a handful from each, which makes me doubt that the outlay is worth it for me until at least the third season.
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I notice that HMV have been putting fancy artwork slip covers on a bunch of Blu-ray releases such as Serenity, Pitch Black, and Chronicles of Riddick and pitching them at 2 for £20. Never mind that you can buy these titles without the fancy cardboard covers for less than £7.50 each online. They really are going for the impulse buyers. They do have the Blu-ray of Withnail and I on sale for £3, which I was tempted to buy.
Anyway, back to the topic. I watched "Encounter at Farpoint" again yesterday, and remembered how clunky TNG was in its early days. The Q stuff is really quite tiresome to sit through. In the first season, I'm only really interested in seeing "11001001", "Conspiracy", and perhaps "The Arsenal of Freedom" in HD. Shelling out £60-80 or so for 2 or 3 episodes just wouldn't be worth it for me. Season 2 is a bit better with "Elementary, Dear Data", "A Matter of Honor", "The Measure of a Man", "Time Squared", "Q Who", and "Peak Performance", but that's still only 6 episodes. Season 3 is where the interest in TNG HD starts for me with at least 15 good or excellent episodes.
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Rob Burnett has implored me to get a Blu-Ray, so I may wind up breaking down and looking into getting a cheap one (as opposed to my main game plan and holding out for a PS3).
Haha, maybe the live action will be 4:3 and the space shots will be 16:9.
Not so hilarious or far-fetched really...on netflix the wider screen FX are in 16:9 and the rest of the series is 4:3...so we may see the ILM shots in full glory at some point.
Ah please not on the BD...I´d prefer ONE format, no switching...my TV needs a few seconds to recognise and switch from one format to the other and I would hate to have to sit thru this 5+ times per episode.
Ack, I missed that.
In the UK, I imagine the full retail price will be £21.99 (£$35) as we're usually treated as gullible rubes who'll gladly pay through the nose.
We pay 15 € for the taster here in germany , wich is an okay price considering that a BD of smiliar length normaly is between 25 and 40 €.
Edit: Seems the price now fell to 13,99.
HMV sold off Waterstone's to keep themselves ticking over and so the higher ups could reward themselves with nice bonuses.
I have a friend who works there which is pretty handy (30% staff discount!).
Haha, maybe the live action will be 4:3 and the space shots will be 16:9.
Not so hilarious or far-fetched really...on netflix the wider screen FX are in 16:9 and the rest of the series is 4:3...so we may see the ILM shots in full glory at some point.
Ah please not on the BD...I´d prefer ONE format, no switching...my TV needs a few seconds to recognise and switch from one format to the other and I would hate to have to sit thru this 5+ times per episode.
They could encode the black bars at the side for the 4:3 scenes so a mode switch wouldn't be necessary. That shouldn't add much to the file size. However, I think it would look kind of odd. I expect they will crop the 4:3 scenes for broadcast syndication. While watching "Encounter at Farpoint" and "The Best of Both Worlds" on DVD, I experimented with using my PC to crop the picture to 16:9. Even when I adjusted the position of the framing to be as optimal as possible, I found that there were certain scenes whose aesthetic composition suffered badly - in my personal opinion, of course.
Sounds great. BlueRay can do quite amazing things via its scripting engine, maybe its possible to have the 16:9 optional? Basically the whole image would be on the disc, but normally black bars would mask it to 4:3, unless an option to remove the bars is activated. So people who prefer 4:3 because it was framed that way can watch it that way, and everyone else can watch it in 16:9.
Nope, that wouldn't work because in your scheme, you'd be masking something that's already been cropped down to 16:9. You'd lose even more of the picture.
In some markets, there might be enough demand to allow sets of both aspect ratio versions on Blu-ray to be made available.
Sorry, I don't think I've heard that rumor. Everything official/quasi-official has said 4x3. It's only the fans who refuse to let it die that keep bringing up 16x9.
^ That's their attitude towards Star Trek fans in general.
Case in point: the last movie.
You mean the one that more non-fans saw than fans? Bzzz wrong answer!
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^ That's their attitude towards Star Trek fans in general.
Case in point: the last movie.
You mean the one that more non-fans saw than fans?
I still doubt that. This message board alone is full of people who said they watched this movie 10-15 times in theaters when they watched Nemesis only one single time or not at all.
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