DS9 on blu ray?
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I highly doubt they'd do that.
They estimated that remastering the first season cost $9 Million for S1, which included some of the startup costs. There have been several very detailed costs analyses in the various TNG-HD threads, but I think $50 million for the TNG project is a fair estimate, assuming the $9 Million number was accurate for the startup costs and production of S1, given that subsequent seasons wouldn't need to startup and they've streamlined the process.
If that's the case, DS9 would be more than that. Maybe around $60-75 Million, given many of the startup costs are already covered from TNG (assuming they switch over quickly), the first few seasons are pretty similar in scope to TNG, and the last 3-4 are much more expensive given the quantity of CG.
Millions.
I thought the entire project was suppose to cost $9 million?
I can't seem to find the original source, but the references I'm finding online are mostly stating that the $9 million was for the first season alone. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though, because it'd be much easier for CBS-D to swallow $10-$20 Million for DS9 versus upwards of $75 Million.
Weren't the TNG season sets like 200 bucks a pop when they first hit DVD? 60 bucks is more than reasonable.
Well not quite. It's not like CBS haven't looked into the possibility of remastering DS9...
More explicitly, CBS have investigated the feasibility of a DS9 remastering. After the investigation they have no plans to proceed with remastering the show at this time.
By this point I'm sure they've had discussions to future-proof the entire franchise. However, if they have no plans 3 years into the TNG remastering with only one season left to release, they probably won't ever have any plans.
TNG was the high-water mark for Star Trek when it comes to viewers and public acceptance. If the remastering is just barely making money then the more nichey series aren't ever doing to see any upgrades.
And I don't care what people say, a more nichey show isn't ever going to be more profitable...that just doesn't make any sense.
Who says TNG is "barely making any money?"
Admittedly that's just here say from others in this thread.
I think that it makes sense. If TNG was bringing Brinks trucks full of cash to CBS, they'd be falling all over themselves to get the rest of the series out on Blu-ray.
At least regarding a high quality upgrade with full post of the special effects.
I wonder how much the HD upgrade of the X-Files did cost for all seasons. They already finished all seasons in a fraction of the time TNG needed, because they only upscaled all effect shots. I guess, X-Files did also only cost a fraction of the TNG upgrade because of that.
I still believe in a HD upgrade for VOY and DS9, but just not a full post upgrade. It probably is going to be a compromise. Maybe even without a Bluray release, just HD for TV stations and streaming.
Yes!+++
But FrontierTrek, who seems the best source on this, says that CBS has looked at it and isn't going forward with DS9.
That would seem pretty definitive, but he also said that the whole of the TNG rebuilding project was only around $9 million. That's much lower than I thought it would be.
Each of these shows represents hundreds of millions of dollars of quality sci fi. Rescuing it and future-proofing it for that relatively low amount of money (you could barely do 3 new episodes of a sci fi show for that) just seems like it would be a sensible decision.
FrontierTrek's second post rather depressed me. But the first post seemed to offer a glimmer of hope. If there's a DS9 fan somewhere in the decision-making machinery at Amazon Prime or Netflix, either one of those places could simply cut a check and get the ball rolling on this in exchange for exclusive streaming rights. Both Netflix and Amazon write checks for $50 million plus for just 10 episodes of a new show, and so to get 170 episodes for $15 million, or whatever, would seem to me like a bargain....
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