The OFFICIAL STNG-R general discussion thread!

[Maxwell Everett]

Well, if they're creating 16:9 VFX for the show, I wanna see the opening titles like that!

You can see the first few seconds of the Season 1/2 main titles (the planet flybys) in 16:9 on the main menu of the Next Level Blu-ray... not sure if the Season 1 Blu-ray discs will have that too.

 

[Hober Mallow]

I'm really curious about that extended version of "Measure of a Man."

 

[throwback]

Well, for me, that shot from "Datalore" changes my understanding of Federation shields. I always thought that starships were protected within one shield 'bubble'; now, it appears that starships were protected by two shield 'bubbles'.

 

[BigFoot]

I also prefer to watch movies and TV shows in their OAR (original aspect ratio).

Yeah, me too. I hate when they screw up the picture to stretch it out. It looks like crap.

btw, who's the hottie in your avatar?

The lovely Linda Cardellini.

 

[Zaku]

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[davejames]

http://static.ow.ly/photos/original/LcUd.jpg

Holy CRAP, that is a huge improvement over the original:
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s1/1x25/conspiracy163.jpg
It almost looks like movie quality now.


And speaking of Conspiracy, I can't wait to see the new version of this shot too:
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s1/1x25/conspiracy098.jpg

 

[Cap.T]

And here is another Interview with the Okudas. They talk about Tobias Richters CGI-Model and trying to do an extented version of "The Measure of a Man":

http://trekmovie.com/2012/07/12/int...on-star-trek-tng-blu-ray-season-1-new-images/

 

[FrontierTrek]

Great new shots from Comic Con! Added them to TrekCore.

Also - CBS sent us some nice pictures of the team who were in attendance at Comic Con, and the audience there:
http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/#comiccon

 

[ATimson]

Law & Order is another TV show that now appears on TV in HD and a "true" 16:9 ratio, right back as far as the first season as far as I can tell, which is pretty surprising as it started in what, 1990?

The DVDs are only in 16x9 going back to season five (1994-95). I'd assumed they simply hadn't protected for widescreen before that point, though I guess it's possible that they did & Universal Home Video didn't bother making new transfers.

Looks great in the couple of episodes I've seen, not sure if it suffers from the same issues as the Friends screencaps above though.

Not that I've noticed. Interestingly enough, even though the captions are constrained to the 4x3 frame, the action isn't. I think it looks better in widescreen.

 

[Sho]

Almost certainly alone on this one, but its something that, once you notice, you can't "un-notice" sadly.

You aren't! While I'm not angry about it or anything, I too tend to notice the absence of the charge pulse because I always loved - it certainly greatly increases the "cool factor" of seeing the phasers in action.

 

[Takeru]

What's the charge pulse? The *wheeee* thing on the phaser strip before the beam was fired? Was that ever missing when the Enteprise fired her phasers, it really belongs there, I can't imagine the phasers without it.

 

[MikeS]

What's the charge pulse? The *wheeee* thing on the phaser strip before the beam was fired? Was that ever missing when the Enteprise fired her phasers, it really belongs there, I can't imagine the phasers without it.

The phaser energy runs "orange" along the length of the array, from either end, and then meets at the point where the beam is fired from.

*Dick Valentine and Sho are definitely not alone in liking that effect.

 

[Sho]

I can only speculate that sometimes they left it out because having it tends to increase the shot length and sometimes that might interfere with the editing dynamics of a sequence.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

cut negative TV series and Trek 16:9

Law & Order is another TV show that now appears on TV in HD and a "true" 16:9 ratio, right back as far as the first season as far as I can tell, which is pretty surprising as it started in what, 1990?

The DVDs are only in 16x9 going back to season five (1994-95). I'd assumed they simply hadn't protected for widescreen before that point, though I guess it's possible that they did & Universal Home Video didn't bother making new transfers.

"NYPD Blue" always had a cut negative for that show just like "ER" did. "ER" retelecined to HD before they put out 16:9 DVDs of "ER" in 2003. Just like Trek's TOS was an easy telecine to HD (with the original Visual effects).
"ER" started in 1994 and "NYPD Blue" started in 1994. They never put out widescreen DVDs of the first 4 seasons of NYPD Blue. No other seasons were released.

"ER" aired on TNTHD in reruns after 2003 and it's all in 16:9 HD (not zoomed in). They protected for 16:9 during production.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

some actual info on the telecine of the original camera negatives

The project's film transfer technician, Wade Felker, sifted through countless cans of film negative to follow the original intent of the cinematographers and meet their vision. The episodes are finished at a resolution of 1080i.

Season 2 special feature!

Season Two will be released in 2013, featuring an entirely new seventy-five minute roundtable interview with the TNG cast.

source
http://io9.com/5925477/a-behind+the+scenes-look-at-star-trek-the-next-generation-on-blu+ray

 

[trekker670]

2013...I was hoping for Christmas

Edit:
I'm not sure how reliable that article is. It seems to be a write-up of the SDCC panel, but this quote specifically is definitely wrong:

The remastering process featured zero CGI edits to special effects shots.

 

[StewMc]

Has it ever been mentioned what they are doing with the audio? I mean, are they laying everything down from scratch again, dialogue, effects, music, etc, or just remixing the existing final tracks (probably the same ones originally remixed into 5.1 for the DVDs)?

I suspect the latter given the effort it would take to track down every sound effect, looped ADR, etc, but haven't really seen the audio mentioned much.

 

[Scotty]

I seriously doubt that's right. CBS won't want to miss the opportunity to release the second season before the holidays. Furthermore, we know they're halfway through season 2 in the remastering process so they are on track for a 2012 release.

 

[trekker670]

Regarding the audio, they've stated it's being mixed for 7.1 surround, but I haven't heard how exactly they're doing it. I would imagine that if they're completely recompositing the sound they'd have made a bigger deal about it. My guess is they're using the 5.1, remixing it and tweaking it as needed

 

[bullethead]

Has it ever been mentioned what they are doing with the audio? I mean, are they laying everything down from scratch again, dialogue, effects, music, etc, or just remixing the existing final tracks (probably the same ones originally remixed into 5.1 for the DVDs)?

I suspect the latter given the effort it would take to track down every sound effect, looped ADR, etc, but haven't really seen the audio mentioned much.

I think they are rebuilding from scratch for the 7.1 surround sound mix, but I'm not sure about the stereo mix.