DS9 on blu ray?
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Maybe, it wouldn't be too expensive - but its demand is the least in the franchise. I doubt its on anyone's radar.
I don't even really care if it comes to Blu-ray. I would just like them to make new and improved transfers for DS9 and Voyager. Of course that's just a wish as I don't think it will be happening any time soon.
Physical media still has it's place, vinyl records can still be bought and weren't CD's supposed to replace them, speaking of which MP3's have yet replaced CD's.
And of course there is the small matter of speed for digital media, not everyone has the neccessary speed to stream SD never mind HD or UHD content. It's not good buisness sense to exclude a consumer. Sure physical media might shift more to the niche market but that market will still likely exist. But surely with physical media the aim is to add value to it, go back a few years and steelbooks weren't as common now more and more films get the steelbook treatment are they doing this to appeal to the mass market or the collectors market? I would say the later
And of course there is the small matter of speed for digital media, not everyone has the neccessary speed to stream SD never mind HD or UHD content. It's not good buisness sense to exclude a consumer. Sure physical media might shift more to the niche market but that market will still likely exist. But surely with physical media the aim is to add value to it, go back a few years and steelbooks weren't as common now more and more films get the steelbook treatment are they doing this to appeal to the mass market or the collectors market? I would say the later
I think just transferring the DVD masters to bluray would be a big improvement. Most episodes are ridiculously compressed.
So the 'forthcoming' regarding the TAS blu-ray set in the Memory Alpha article is based on nothing then?
Cheap and easy I'd suspect. Just a scanning and cleaning job. The results nay not be really worth it though - there's so little detail in most animation that upscaled DVD's look pretty good.
While I'd love to see TAS on Blu-ray, that article is from three years ago and Burnett went on to clarify it was on his wish list.
"A few days later this was clarified by Burnett as just a "wish list" of projects he'd like to see, but it was not something that was actually being developed presently."
I was wondering what the added value would be. The animation wasn't really that impressive, even for the time.
Yes, that bit confused me as well. No, let me rephrase that, it confused me why the article still lists the set as 'forthcoming' despite the line about it not being in development.
It's been three years, whether it was on the schedule or not, at some point it was decided not to release it.
TAS on DVD is not high-definition, alright, but it sure is not ”upscaled”. It was done from newly scanned film material when the DVD was produced. That's why they could easily put “More Tribbles, More Troubles” on the TOS-R blu-ray. That's also why TAS on blu-ray would be a pretty easy thing to do.
Technically, no.
Functionally, yes.
Try walking into a Tower Records and getting the latest Rhianna vinyl. The staff would look at you as if you were speaking Farsi - thats if they hadn't all lost their jobs a decade ago because Tower Records went bankrupt because even then enough people had stopped buying physical media.
And we're approaching dawn of a generation with purchasing power who isn't familiar with physical media at all.
Also, something can be replaced and not be totally eliminated - they're not mutually exclusive. Air conditioning replaced ceiling fans as the primary form of cooling, yet people still buy ceiling fans. FM radio replaced AM radio yet it still exists.
MP3 is a horrible format for music.
Go for FLAC instead.
And my area has several music stores that sell a lot of vinyl records. Even the music stores at the malls have a whole section devoted to vinyl now, as both audiophiles and hipsters have revived it. It's a boutique format that sells for 1.5 to 2x the price of the exact same thing on CD.
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Go for FLAC instead.
And my area has several music stores that sell a lot of vinyl records. Even the music stores at the malls have a whole section devoted to vinyl now, as both audiophiles and hipsters have revived it. It's a boutique format that sells for 1.5 to 2x the price of the exact same thing on CD.
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I'm sad that DS9 will likely not get an HD upgrade - well not for some years yet. I just started re-watching the show on Crave TV (a Canadian online streaming site) and the video quality is terrible. I swear they must have just transferred it from VHS it's so interlaced!
I'm hoping that if the Trek show is successful, CBS will invest in upgrading all the remaining Trek catalog.
I'm hoping that if the Trek show is successful, CBS will invest in upgrading all the remaining Trek catalog.
Former Audio Engineer for NASA TV here, I'm with you on the inferiority of MP3, however, MP3 is by far the dominant audio file on the planet due to it's file size and ability to be quickly downloaded over Napster in the early days of broadband file sharing. A vast majority of people can't tell the difference between MP3 and WAV or FLAC files. "Good enough" works for them.
True FLAC is 3-4 times the file size. If you give someone the option of downloading a song in 3 minutes or 12, they're going to pick the 3 minute one and then listen to it via their shitty earbuds because cheap and convenient wins.
True FLAC is 3-4 times the file size. If you give someone the option of downloading a song in 3 minutes or 12, they're going to pick the 3 minute one and then listen to it via their shitty earbuds because cheap and convenient wins.
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I'm rewatching DS9 on Netflix, just started S4. It looks good, but not great. I remember in the 90s it looked amazing on a rear-projection big screen. I guess expectations have changed.
I honestly can't tell the difference. But I grew up with AM radio, a crappy one-speaker record player, and an 8-track deck in my first car. My brain is probably still filling in the spaces.
Vinyl is definitely making a comeback, though largely as a niche hipster fetish item. But the resurgence of interest is real, at least in the UK. You can buy plenty of LPs in HMV and even Tesco these days.
Sony and Panasonic are rereleasing turntables to their ranges after scrapping them a few years ago, and Sony is apparently hunting around for old LP pressing equipment to meet demand. It's a bit too early to say whether it's lasting, or just a fad.
In terms of mass media, physical formats are declining, but there will always be a place for something real you can hold in your hand.
Sony and Panasonic are rereleasing turntables to their ranges after scrapping them a few years ago, and Sony is apparently hunting around for old LP pressing equipment to meet demand. It's a bit too early to say whether it's lasting, or just a fad.
In terms of mass media, physical formats are declining, but there will always be a place for something real you can hold in your hand.
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