DS9 DVDs vs Voyager DVDs

[GulBahana]

Recently, I noticed when watching a Voyager DVD set that the picture quality seems much better than the DS9 DVDs. Voyager wasn't filmed that much later so I wasn't sure why the quality was so noticeable. It is just my imagination?

 

[Tomalak]

Have you got an example? There may some marginal improvements but I don't recall Voyager looking "much" better.

MPEG 2 compression used in DVDs can struggle with darker scenes, which DS9 generally had more of than Voyager. That's one possible reason.

Later seasons of Voyager probably made better use of editing on digital video. You'd probably want to compare like-for-like, say a DS9 third season episode and a Voyager first season, or season seven of DS9 and Voyager's fifth year.

 

[Tosk]

You'd probably want to compare like-for-like, say a DS9 third season episode and a Voyager first season, or season seven of DS9 and Voyager's fifth year.

I was gonna say the same thing. If you compare season one of each, yeah VOY is gonna be better. (But compare DS9 and TNG season one for an even more striking quality difference!) You have to compare eps that were made about the same time.

 

[ELURIA]

Where is the epic conflict between DVDs? Damned clickbait

 

[tomswift2002]

Also DS9 and Voyager were mastered to D2 composite videotape, even for Voyager's last episodes. Of course the last episodes of Voyager might've been edited on a computer compared to early-Voyager & DS9's linear editing on D-2 tape.