DS9 on blu ray?
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The BBC's also skint.
Oops, I can't believe I forgot the X-Files. I binge watched it all a few months ago.
Certain effects shots were obviously just upscaled instead of properly remastered, though.
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And there was a lot of stock footage (e.g. Exterior location shots when they went to a different city) that was sourced from VHS, which looked hilariously awful compared to the regular 35mm footage.
I think the best hope for the uprez possibility isn't that broadcasters will pay extra for HD content, but that they'll continue to pay what they're currently paying, but will stop buying SD content altogether.
If you want to keep selling old shows, you've got to supply them in HD at no extra cost. Otherwise you won't sell them at all...
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Not to mention DSN already does air outside of the USA, in the UK at least and on 2 different channels. So would SyFy or CBS Action who air it in the UK switch to HD if it was available?
Like anything else, it would depend on the cost.
In this case it looks like CBS is holding up the release of the HD versions for broadcast. I was just looking on the CBS syndication bible and CBS only has the HD masters for all 7 seasons available for Network broadcast, and Syndication is still SD. Of course, with SD, do we know that BBC America is using HD masters, or are they using SD dubs of the HD masters that CBS supplied? Remember, when TOS-R was first released to Syndication, CBS originally released it in 4x3 SD only (it was only later that CBS released the HD masters for both Network and Syndication), and I wonder how many stations are still using those SD masters for HD broadcast?
For comparison, when I pull up TOS, it has listings for 4x3 Network HD, 4x3 Network HD (Remastered), Network 16x9 Tilt and Scan, Syndication 4x3 HD & Syndication 4x3 (Remastered). Even comparing Enterprise, CBS only has 26 episodes of Enterprise available for Syndication in 16x9 HD, while they are offering all 98 episodes in HD for Network in either 4x3 or 16x9. Even TAS is limited to a Network 4x3 HD contract.
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Do they actually broadcast in HD? I thought they were only SD channels, unless it's different on satellite.
Here in Canada SPACE airs Voyager in HD.
Well, they don't, but I see what you mean. CBS Action in the UK is 570p only. I'm not sure if any channel in the UK actually broadcasts any Star Trek in HD.
Just guessing, but presumably because ratings were too poor to justify buying the rest, but they'll continue to air those they have bought until their rights expire.
Maybe its not BBC's idea. CBS seems be holding up remaining episodes from an SD rotation and Syndication rotation. Right now CBS seems more interested in getting Network contracts for the HD masters. Take a look at Enterprise, only 26 episodes are available in Syndication in High-Definition. So its not unlike CBS to release only select episodes to Syndication in High-Definition. And most stations are probably still airing TNG from Betacam SP tapes, including the new Season 1 & 2 episodes.
DS9 will be on Blu-ray someday.
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spinagogue said:
Maybe this guy has got it right. If all of us use the power of affirmation, and intone loudly 100 times every day "DS9 will be on Blu-Ray someday" thus bending the forces of causality to our will, then it might happen.
Then again, it probably won't.
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