Do u have dvds of star trek or watch them on you tube. I prefer watching them on you tube then owning any dvds.
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You can watch Star Trek on YouTube? Where? I searched for some remastered TOS episodes a while back and couldn't find anything.
I own all 7 seasons of TNG, all 7 seasons of DS9 and the first 10 movies on DVD. I'm hoping to pick up the blu-ray of TOS remastered at some point. The DVD of The Animated Series is in the house somewhere but it's not mine. Ditto the DVD collection of TOS.
I own all 7 seasons of TNG, all 7 seasons of DS9 and the first 10 movies on DVD. I'm hoping to pick up the blu-ray of TOS remastered at some point. The DVD of The Animated Series is in the house somewhere but it's not mine. Ditto the DVD collection of TOS.
A while back there were some illicit uploads of full episodes of TOS on YT. I guess they finally got around to taking them down. It's like whackamole on YT sometimes.
Right now, try searching for Knight Rider. You'll find Youtube's pay channel list at the side, and a bunch of illegal rips in the search results!
I have TOS on Blu-ray and VHS, TNG on DVD, seven seasons of DS9 on VHS, six DS9 seasons on DVD, all of Voyager on VHS, all the movies on Blu-ray, the first 9 on DVD (TWOK twice for the SE), and the first eight movies on VHS. I'll be dumping the VHS when I get season seven of DS9. They can turn the servers off, but they can't take physical copies away. Well maybe with Blu-ray when they change a player's firmware to stop playing an old disc, when they release a new one. Wouldn't put it past 'em.
Right now, try searching for Knight Rider. You'll find Youtube's pay channel list at the side, and a bunch of illegal rips in the search results!
I have TOS on Blu-ray and VHS, TNG on DVD, seven seasons of DS9 on VHS, six DS9 seasons on DVD, all of Voyager on VHS, all the movies on Blu-ray, the first 9 on DVD (TWOK twice for the SE), and the first eight movies on VHS. I'll be dumping the VHS when I get season seven of DS9. They can turn the servers off, but they can't take physical copies away. Well maybe with Blu-ray when they change a player's firmware to stop playing an old disc, when they release a new one. Wouldn't put it past 'em.
Neither, Youtube uploads violate the TOS and various copyrights and DVDs are sub-par in terms of image quality.
I can't imagine leaving access of my favorite show to the whims of the IP holders and my local broadband company!
Same here, which is why I own the DVD's of everything.
I have a nice little set of DVDs:
- Vol. 38 of the first TOS DVD release (orange cover), with "The Way to Eden" and "Requiem for Methuselah."
- TOS Remastered: all three full-season box sets of the CBS Digital version.
- Star Trek Alternate Realities Collective: 20 episode box set, sampled from all five TV series.
- Star Trek Original Motion Picture Collection box set: the first six movies in their original theatrical versions, plus "The Captain's Summit."
- Star Trek (2009).
- Vol. 38 of the first TOS DVD release (orange cover), with "The Way to Eden" and "Requiem for Methuselah."
- TOS Remastered: all three full-season box sets of the CBS Digital version.
- Star Trek Alternate Realities Collective: 20 episode box set, sampled from all five TV series.
- Star Trek Original Motion Picture Collection box set: the first six movies in their original theatrical versions, plus "The Captain's Summit."
- Star Trek (2009).
Physical copies are the way to go. The TOS and TNG Blu Rays are what you want, but the DVDs aren't bad either--you can get them pretty cheap these days.
YouTube? It's great, but there's nothing like owning your own entertainment rather than depending on someone else to provide it for you. He who giveth can always taketh away any time he damneth pleases.
YouTube? It's great, but there's nothing like owning your own entertainment rather than depending on someone else to provide it for you. He who giveth can always taketh away any time he damneth pleases.
DVD: DS9 movies,
BR: Into Darkness
BR: Into Darkness
When watching my bedroom TV, TOS streaming is fine (HULU) and many of the movies are available streaming, but for picture quality, I've TOS on Blu-ray (all 3 seasons) the TOS movies on Blu-Ray (except for TMP, it's the directors edition on DVD) the TNG 2 parter sets on Blu-Ray Seasons 3 and 4 of Enterprise on Blu-ray (they were gifts and are actually enjoyable) and both JJ verse movies on Blu-ray.
If you buy from iTunes, they can't be pulled. As long as you've downloaded it, it's yours forever. And it's not streaming, either.
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I prefer having a physical copy, as the picture quality is way better than the streaming, especially right now with DS9 and Voyager where the video is being mastered from 480i tapes. DVD's allow for the original 480i video to be stored on disc, and then your Blu-Ray/DVD player does a better job of converting it to 480p, 720p, 1080i or 1080p than most software deinterlacers can.
But also I find the videos on iTunes or YouTube can be extremely compressed, and then even if the video is 1080p, heavy compression just destroys the image quality.
But also I find the videos on iTunes or YouTube can be extremely compressed, and then even if the video is 1080p, heavy compression just destroys the image quality.
Lol. That format "war" was more of a massacre.
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