Differences in these two DVD sets?

[gastrof]

Can someone tell me if there's a significant difference between these two DVD sets of the original series?

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Ori...13?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1317091196&sr=1-13

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Ori...1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1317091005&sr=1-3

 

[CaptainStoner]

I think the first link is the original DVD release, the second is the remastered series.

 

[gastrof]

I think the first link is the original DVD release, the second is the remastered series.

Actually, I know the individual cases that sort of looked like colored tricorders were the remastered series. The ones that appear to be in see-thru containers must have come later. I just don't know if it's a packaging difference only, or something different about the DVDs.

The original DVD release came in thin boxes with two episodes each. Blah.

If anyone else who has good info can step in here as to the items in the two links, please do. I lost all my home-recorded Trek episodes (all five series), and am looking to at least get TOS. Would like to know what to get.

 

[sojourner]

According to the reviews on those pages, the second set you listed includes 3 additional extras.

Reading, wow, what a concept.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Actually, I know the individual cases that sort of looked like colored tricorders were the remastered series.

But not the newly-CGIed episodes. These were just season sets of DVDs, which (in the USA) had already come out "in thin boxes with two episodes each", plus new bonus material.

The ones that appear to be in see-thru containers must have come later. I just don't know if it's a packaging difference only, or something different about the DVDs.

The transparent packages were the HD/DVD combo sets. In Australia, we only ever got the Season One set in this format. Then the whole HD market died, making way for Blu-Ray.

 

[Start Wreck]

Yes, those transparant box sets are the CGI-enhanced episodes that were supposed to come out on HD-DVD, before the format died.
The first season (yellow box) has HD-DVD/DVD combo double sided discs, while seasons 2 and 3 are just DVD (blank on the other side).
These were effectively superseded by the new slimmer DVD and Blu-ray sets.

Only the Blu-ray sets contain a choice of the original optical and new CGI effects sequences. The DVDs only contain the CGI effects.

Your first link is for the original season boxsets, the first time they were boxed together. No CGI effects in those ones, obviously.

 

[The Wormhole]

I think the first link is the original DVD release, the second is the remastered series.

Actually, I know the individual cases that sort of looked like colored tricorders were the remastered series. The ones that appear to be in see-thru containers must have come later. I just don't know if it's a packaging difference only, or something different about the DVDs.

The original DVD release came in thin boxes with two episodes each. Blah.

If anyone else who has good info can step in here as to the items in the two links, please do. I lost all my home-recorded Trek episodes (all five series), and am looking to at least get TOS. Would like to know what to get.

You partially right. When TOS was first released on DVD it was two episodes on a disc released on single discs. Then in 2004, box sets of the three seasons were released, and that's what's the first link of your above post. The second link (the see-through containers) are the remastered episodes.

 

[ChristopherPike]

No Red Shirt log easter eggs made it onto the Remastered DVDs. Otherwise everything was transferred across.

The Blu ray misses the 90 minute Christies auction documentary "Beyond the Final Frontier" hosted by Leonard Nimoy. Handy in that it gives you both options for viewing the Original Series though.