DS9 on blu ray?

[Shalashaska]

CBS did nothing for Enterprise except put the episodes on disc.

You know what I meant.

Whether people like it or not, the only truely 1080 or above sources in Star Trek are the original, unaltered 35mm prints and already up to 4K rendered CGI elements.

Those are the film of TOS, TNG, DS9 and VGR. The 720 footage of Enterprise and 480i-720p CGI that can be fudged a little. And the new movies.

That's what I mean. No one's expecting any upscaling algorithm of CBS' to make the show look brand new and full 1080p, hell, don't even bother upscaling SFX-heavy shots if you want, let the TV/BR player handle it, but I think it would be a much cheaper and convenient option to scan 35mm shots in HD and then let upscaling handle the rest.

It would be more profitable than either doing nothing or doing a full authentic HD remaster.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

Breaking even is not a business model. TNG-R got about 105%, a faliure, one they will not repeat.

Any sources for those kind of numbers?

 

[Kemaiku]

Paramount mentioned that they barely made "more than their money back" on the process within the first year. You could email their financial division for comment, you wouldn't be the first.

It would be more profitable than either doing nothing or doing a full authentic HD remaster.

Which is why, when the potential payoff is worth the effort from the studio, we'll see an upscaled and cleaned version of the effects with rescanned 35mm live action if they can manage. But that's likely it for DS9 and VGR, completing the Prime universe content in HD.

 

[Joe_Atari]

Paramount mentioned that they barely made "more than their money back" on the process within the first year. You could email their financial division for comment, you wouldn't be the first.

Wat

 

[Shalashaska]

Which is why, when the potential payoff is worth the effort from the studio, we'll see an upscaled and cleaned version of the effects with rescanned 35mm live action if they can manage. But that's likely it for DS9 and VGR, completing the Prime universe content in HD.

I do wonder how it'd end up looking.

X-Files did the same but it was pretty low on effects-heavy sequences so the switch between HD and SD wasn't all too noticeable or bothersome. DS9 would be quite the opposite with all of its CGI ships and VFX. It's likely the best we'll ever get though.

 

[JoeP]

According to his Twitter profile, Roger Lay worked on the TNG Remastered blu rays, and he sent out this tweet:

Finally revealing details on our @StarTrek 50th project today at #SDCC2016 - 12:30 room 5AB Inside The Roddenberry Vault!

https://twitter.com/rogerlayjr1980/status/756898378181521408

Possible DS9/Voyager Remastered announcement??

 

[DonIago]

I'm not that kind of optimist. :/

 

[JoeP]

A long shot, for sure.

 

[Kemaiku]

According to his Twitter profile, Roger Lay worked on the TNG Remastered blu rays, and he sent out this tweet:

https://twitter.com/rogerlayjr1980/status/756898378181521408

Possible DS9/Voyager Remastered announcement??

As likely as it being delivered by a talking unicorn.

 

[JoeP]

As likely as it being delivered by a talking unicorn.

So you're saying there's a chance....

 

[Shalashaska]

According to his Twitter profile, Roger Lay worked on the TNG Remastered blu rays, and he sent out this tweet:

https://twitter.com/rogerlayjr1980/status/756898378181521408

Possible DS9/Voyager Remastered announcement??

 

[Kemaiku]

The 50th project has mostly been documentary work and brand new retrospective material for the entire franchise.

If it were specifically about new home video/media releases, he'd have said that.

 

[ChristopherPike]

It's for that box-set of TOS, TAS & the first 6 movies isn't it? The one with Juan Ortiz pop art everyone seems to be crazy for.

I enjoyed The Genesis Effect: Engineering the Wrath of Khan on the DE Blu ray earlier in the week. That's one of five new docs for the 50th. The rest exclusive to that set probably... unless select films get a re-release. The Animated Series on BD must surely eventually.

 

[Dream]

DS9 on blu ray will happen when pigs fly or when hell freezes over.

Just look at the DS9 dvd prices and how they are still ridiculously high even after TOS and TNG came out in discounted full series sets.

 

[zombiemalkshake]

With TNG and ENT both set to complete their blu ray releases next year, does anybody have any news on DS9 getting a blu ray release?

God I wish they would get this on blue ray. And sliders too

 

[DS9forever]

Red Dwarf is getting a Blu-ray release this year.

 

[USS KG5]

Red Dwarf is getting a Blu-ray release this year.

Wow really? All of it? I'd imagine Red Dwarf X and the special (IX?) were made in HD, but the older shows likely were shot on video, nothing to make HD?

 

[Lance]

Red Dwarf is getting a Blu-ray release this year.

This has opened up a whole can of worms over in the Doctor Who community, who now see it as possible that their series will get a release on BD disc as well.

At least on some level Red Dwarf can be 'rescanned' in HD, because many of the special effects shots were done on film and those negatives still exist (something which isn't true of Dr Who.) How much extra detail in the SFX model shots can be gleaned from this, and whether it's even worth rebuying the whole show for is another matter, although of course SD material presented on Blu Ray is better than SD material presented on DVD simply because the latter compresses the files and therefore loses some definition, while the former doesn't need to (at least, not for something like Red Dwarf or Doctor Who.) It's just that the difference for many people is negligible to the point of irrelevance.

 

[USS KG5]

Tof course SD material presented on Blu Ray is better than SD material presented on DVD simply because the latter compresses the files and therefore loses some definition, while the former doesn't need to (at least, not for something like Red Dwarf or Doctor Who.) It's just that the difference for many people is negligible to the point of irrelevance.

Tru dat. Surely you are almost entering audiophile territory there.. terrifying!

The BBC has been (frankly) dishonest enough to release SD only shows like Life On Mars on BD, but I'm honestly surprised by the Red Dwarf news, it looks soft as philadelphia on DVD.

 

[Lance]

It's true that the BBC has a reputation for releasing SD material on Blu Ray. Chalk up the modern Doctor Who as another example, which has been put out in it's entirety on Blu Ray disc despite a good half of the material being made before they switched to filming it with HD equipment.