DS9 is getting a new DVD release
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Citation? How do you know this? I'm not being flip, honest question.
I should have said so originally, but that was my opinion. Not verifiable fact. Mark my words though.
Yeah, the packaging is terrible. It looks good, but it's so fragile that they fall apart not long after you buy them. All seven seasons I own are in really bad shape, so I'm glad they're re-releasing them.
Well, that makes more sense. And you may be proven correct. That is the CBS way...why release a new version, when you can just repackage something from 10 years ago.I should have said so originally, but that was my opinion. Not verifiable fact. Mark my words though.
But if I remember correctly, at about the time they released TNG on BR, didn't they reissue DVDs as well? I'm assuming those were cleaned up versions of the DVDs, but I never bought them so I don't know. Maybe we will see better quality DVDs for DS9. I'd rather see BR, but I think that is nigh impossible at this point. SO, if they do have better quality DVDs, I may be tempted to buy them in Feb...depending on price, and how much better they are.
Yes. They were identical to the previous DVDs.
I should have said so originally, but that was my opinion. Not verifiable fact. Mark my words though.
Yeah he's right - they would not create new masters at significant cost at this stage of the game, remember they haven't even reissued the TNG DVDs in "remastered" format.
The comments in the thread about "I wish they would remaster these so I can pick them up after a couple of years for £50" tell you everything you need to know about the justification for ANY investment in Trek physical media, and we are the hardcore fans.
New packaging, same transfer as the prior DVD release.
Not looking good for the DS9 DVD re-release.
DVD? what the hell is that?
A few months ago I bought the big single re-release of "MacGyver" featuring Seasons 1-4. Even though the packaging made it seem as though CBS was the one the produced the DVD's and Paramount was only distributing them, on the actual discs you can tell that they were produced by Paramount as each disc opens with the Paramount DVD logo from the early-2000's.
So all the recent CBS DVD re-releases are just reusing the glass masters that were created by Paramount and CBS 10-20 years ago. It makes sense as creating just one glass master costs anywhere from $5,000 USD (for real simple DVD's/Blu-Ray's) to $15-20,000 (for highly complex DVD's/Blu-Ray's), so for a set with 7 discs you might be looking at $35,000 to $140,000. For glass masters you usually want a minimum run of 5,001 copies in order to sell the disc at a $19.99/disc price tag.
http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Star-Trek-Deep-Space-The-Complete-Series-Epik-Pack/22847
TVSHOWSONDVD.COM has more information and artwork. the arwork reminds me of the European reissues, but I've got to wonder why Dominion War Sisko is shown on the covers of Seasons 1,2 & 3, even in the complete series pack, plus the Defiant is on the Season 1 & 2 individual covers! is this kind of like the editing error with "Valhalla", someone just wasn't paying attention?
Also I would expect to see the big Seasons 1-3 slipcase from the Complete Series, released seperately for probably Christmas next year, since that's what I've seen for TNG and MacGyver.
TVSHOWSONDVD.COM has more information and artwork. the arwork reminds me of the European reissues, but I've got to wonder why Dominion War Sisko is shown on the covers of Seasons 1,2 & 3, even in the complete series pack, plus the Defiant is on the Season 1 & 2 individual covers! is this kind of like the editing error with "Valhalla", someone just wasn't paying attention?
Also I would expect to see the big Seasons 1-3 slipcase from the Complete Series, released seperately for probably Christmas next year, since that's what I've seen for TNG and MacGyver.
Well I'm glad to see DS9 getting at least a bit of attention again, even if it's just a new DVD release. Of course naturally this is just AFTER I finished buying all the original boxed sets I had been missing once it became clear the Blu-ray wasn't gonna happen!
Nice thing I've discovered in my rewatch though is that the picture quality does improve quite a bit from about Season 3 on. Which makes it a whole lot easier to watch than before.
Nice thing I've discovered in my rewatch though is that the picture quality does improve quite a bit from about Season 3 on. Which makes it a whole lot easier to watch than before.
Same here. I've had them since they came out in 2003-2004, and they started to fall apart right away. I ended up using several rolls of scotch tape to patch them back together.
I'm strongly considering putting money aside until I can afford to rebuy the complete series sets of all the shows, but in the case of TNG I can't tell if the complete set that came out last summer were the original or remastered versions. No website I look up has this info. Anyway at the rate I can save it'll be 2018 before I can afford them anyhow. Probably 2019. And the complete series set of Voyager has yet to come out, although it probably will by then.
Original. Assuming we're still talking DVD here.
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