Looks like DS9 will not get Blu Ray
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I never got into it till now. it was on the same time as Babylon 5 an di watched that instead.
I stand corrected. It wasn't £80.00.
Just ordered TNG on Bluray for £74.99...
http://www.zavvi.com/blu-ray/star-trek-the-next-generation-complete/11020432.html
OK, I've given up on Zavvi as it's taken them too long to restock. I've cancelled my order and reordered it from Zoom (which I believe is Universal Pictures UK site). £70 with free delvery and a further 20% off using the code 'SIGNUP20' code. £56 in total !
Smug, yeah, just a little !
There's other Trek on there too...
Edit :
I've just been back and purchased Bluray Movies 1 to 10 for £20, Enterprise on Bluray for £40 and DS9 on DVD for £48 ! The code works more than once if you're interested !
I already had Voyager and TAS, so I'm only short of TOS on Bluray now. Everything comes to he who is cheap.
Eventually...
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Nice video!Yes, nice video, and sorry for dragging up this thread again.
I'm an "international" viewer, and I like to watch the shows subtitled. Either my native language, or English. And, while DVD picture quality might look ok (if done well), DVD subtitles always look horrible, especially on modern 50" TVs. It's borderline unwatchable.
My solution is to rip original DVDs, produce or find a text subtitle file, and combine them in programs like MultiAVCHD where I can keep original video untouched, produce a non-standard Bluray (with lots of episodes) with bluray compatible subtitles and watch them on my LG Bluray player which plays pretty much anything. Basically, this will give DVD audio/video-quality with bluray quality subtitles.
A bit of extra work, but it can be streamlined fairly ok. I'm prepared to do it for special shows. We all know the easiest solution is to find the show "elsewhere" and play them on a media player, but I want my shows on optical disks and I am prepared to pay for it. I don't demand a crisp Bluray 2K remaster with new computer graphics, I'd be happy with a quick 720p bluray with nice subtitles. Of course they can't charge $50 a season for that, but it could be produced easily I reckon. Uff, but in the end we'd be lucky to get 720p from some streaming site (Nethulo or whatever) I guess.
I'm an "international" viewer, and I like to watch the shows subtitled. Either my native language, or English. And, while DVD picture quality might look ok (if done well), DVD subtitles always look horrible, especially on modern 50" TVs. It's borderline unwatchable.
My solution is to rip original DVDs, produce or find a text subtitle file, and combine them in programs like MultiAVCHD where I can keep original video untouched, produce a non-standard Bluray (with lots of episodes) with bluray compatible subtitles and watch them on my LG Bluray player which plays pretty much anything. Basically, this will give DVD audio/video-quality with bluray quality subtitles.
A bit of extra work, but it can be streamlined fairly ok. I'm prepared to do it for special shows. We all know the easiest solution is to find the show "elsewhere" and play them on a media player, but I want my shows on optical disks and I am prepared to pay for it. I don't demand a crisp Bluray 2K remaster with new computer graphics, I'd be happy with a quick 720p bluray with nice subtitles. Of course they can't charge $50 a season for that, but it could be produced easily I reckon. Uff, but in the end we'd be lucky to get 720p from some streaming site (Nethulo or whatever) I guess.
As I've said before on another site, PEOPLE, Deep Space Nine sold many, many more DVDs than all the other Trek shows COMBINED! I haven't seen any newer numbers, but the one I saw back in 2013 was 11 MILLION box sets sold! Think about that! multiply the cost of one DS9 box set by 11 million! We know how the studios love money, People, THIS is a lot of money! I do know that because of DS9's superior quality, it would take a little longer to make the complete conversion, this may be the hold up. But keep thinking, 11 MILLION! There will be DS9 on blue ray.
Perhaps it's for the best that Deep Space Nine never saw a Blu-Ray release. Now that Hollywood is moving to 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray, CBS can spend the money that it would use on a Blu-Ray release on remastering Deep Space Nine to 4K Ultra HD. I know it's a pipe dream, but it's a nice pipe dream.
I know it's a pipe dream, but it's a nice pipe dream.
Could the "All Access" streaming service of CBS be a solution to finance the remaster? Instead of finishing a complete season, put them all on a Bluray, they release the remastered episodes one by one on their streaming service once they are finished. So you get a new remastered DS9 episode every week or so on their website. Could that attract new customers to their service and help finance such an project? Because they get an immediate pay back through the streaming sales on CBS-All-Access.
Not according to the people who worked on the TNG remastering effort.
Paramount/CBS Home Video feel that only TOS and the twelve movies (so far) are worth multiple reissues on DVD and Blu-ray. I don't know if those sell the best with casual buyers or actual fans, but those are all I see in stores these days. Hell, the only time stores here would carry the TNG and ENT season blu-ray would be the week they were released.
TNG has been released on DVD twice, and a second Blu-ray release is happening in June.
But these are twenty-five plus year old series, they are the exception not the norm.
The second blu-ray release is a complete series boxset that will only be available online or in specialty stores that carry large, expensive DVD/blu-ray sets.
TOS is fifty(!) years old and still gets marketed as being "relevant". I love TOS as much as anything else, but the spinoffs are all but forgotten about nowadays, and that's sad.
I think it speaks to the problem that somewhere along the way, the people making Star Trek forgot that it is suppose to be "fun". Star Trek became self-important, buying into the hype that it was somehow changing the world.
I think it was more to do with the '90s being so saturated with sci-fi on TV after the mainstream success of TNG.
And also to do with UPN, the home of Star Trek in the late '90s, having a bad reputation compared to most networks and just being an overall annoyance.
And also to do with UPN, the home of Star Trek in the late '90s, having a bad reputation compared to most networks and just being an overall annoyance.
I tuned out because it quit being fun to watch. That opinion didn't change when I went back and saw what I missed during the mid-2000's.
Hasn't TNG been released three times on DVD, the original single season releases, a complete set, and a repackaged complete set. As for BR it's already had two releases the single seasons and the complete set (over a year ago) at least in the UK.
Picked up TOS and ENT on Br from Zavvi earleir in the year for £41 each. After all Never pay for an aquisiton than you have too.
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