Is it impossible to release HD DS9?

[Jonesy]

Your forgetting one thing. Even before TNG got its Remaster, CBS was still looking at all its options in house to see what would be good, and it took years for them to decide, at which point the TOS-R team had broken up. Suffice it to say, we don’t know what the internal politics of CBS are having on DS9 and Voyager.

And Burnett, really all that he would know is what he was involved in. If his contact at CBS was told not to tell him stuff or to make stuff up if Burnett asked, he could’ve received a bunch of misinformation because Burnett was not a CBS employee and did not have that level of clearance.

You make it sound like a high level security position. I'm sure, being in the film and television industry, as well as being involved in the project put him in touch with many people who worked on it.

One of the issues with the TNG remastering project, as I remember reading, was Paramount deciding which way they wanted to go with the remastering. Upscaling was considered, but dropped.

If DS9 and/or Voyager are more complex and more costly to do the same thing as TNG, and TNG underperformed in its home video release, that doesn't bode well. It's all about the dollar signs. If Paramount was to receive more dollars for a true remastering for streaming packages, I'm sure that they would have put the team right to work following the end of the TNG project.

 

[tomswift2002]

You make it sound like a high level security position. I'm sure, being in the film and television industry, as well as being involved in the project put him in touch with many people who worked on it.

One of the issues with the TNG remastering project, as I remember reading, was Paramount deciding which way they wanted to go with the remastering. Upscaling was considered, but dropped.

If DS9 and/or Voyager are more complex and more costly to do the same thing as TNG, and TNG underperformed in its home video release, that doesn't bode well. It's all about the dollar signs. If Paramount was to receive more dollars for a true remastering for streaming packages, I'm sure that they would have put the team right to work following the end of the TNG project.

He was probably in touch with the lower levels of management, but he may not of been in touch with the upper levels. Or if he was, they may’ve Watched their words and only told him what they wanted him to know. In Hollywood, especially when it comes to finances and money, there is a lot of deception. If the studios don’t want to honor a Clause in a contract that would require them to give some profits up or something else, then they’ll lie and create a cover story saying that profits didn’t meet expectations or try to say that a production is still in the “hole”, even if it’s been out for years. Just look at J. Michael Straczynski And ‘Babylon 5’. He’s never received a cut of the profits, even though he’s entitled to it (And B5 earned a profit each season it aired in the 90’s), because Warner Brothers is still saying the B5 is “$80 million” in the hole, and yet it was made on a budget (just for the 5 seasons and not the movies or “Crusade”) of $90 million, and has made over $1 Billion dollars in profit since the 90’s from airing royalties, VHS/Laserdisc/DVD/Streaming rights, Toy rights and other ancillary rights.

Hollywood studios are GREEDY and Deceptive. And whatever they say, should be taken with a ‘grain of salt’. And CBS is the same as Warner Brothers. They are GREEDY and Deceptive.