Remastered TNG in widescreen?

[BillJ]

That does sound like a very good place to start, actually! And I'm sure I wasn't the only one unaware of its existence, so thanks, a lot. I haven't gotten the remaster, yet, as there was no rush ... this works out, much better.

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Ge...=star+trek+the+next+generation+the+next+level

 

[TheSeeker]

If you want to take a chance the complete Blu-Ray set is now on sale: https://www.amazon.com/Generation-4...ku-20&linkId=1fbba26b51354eb041c5e0d41eb3fadf

 

[tomswift2002]

There's a disc called The Next Level, which has three remastered episodes on it. "Encounter at Farpoint", "Sins of the Father" and "The Inner Light". It's a cheap place to start.

Not to mention, but "The Best Of Both Worlds", "Redemption", "Chain Of Command", "Unification" and "All Good Things" also got their own feature-length Blu-Rays that were cheaper than the season sets. BOBW contains about 2 seconds of upconverted footage.

As for "The Next Level" it also contains about 30 secs of upconverted ffwootage in "Sins Of The Father", but that footage was later found and incorporated into the Season 3 release.

 

[RAMA]

It was okay... but we have a big-screen TV, if I put a pillow on the floor in front of the TV, it would have been the same experience. I was hoping to see something, perhaps, remastered for the venue.

If you blow up the picture it was originally filmed at, you lose information. 4x3 is the best format you're going to see those shows in because it was shot that way. Enterprise was shot in 720 and 1080p so it it will be shown "widescreen".

Just face it, technology has advanced, and there's only so much you can do to modernize old shows. If you want widescreen you'll have to wait for the new TV show.

 

[tomswift2002]

If you blow up the picture it was originally filmed at, you lose information. 4x3 is the best format you're going to see those shows in because it was shot that way. Enterprise was shot in 720 and 1080p so it it will be shown "widescreen".

Just face it, technology has advanced, and there's only so much you can do to modernize old shows. If you want widescreen you'll have to wait for the new TV show.

Even on newer widescreen content pictures are being blown up to fill the entire screen. I just tuned into GLOBAL HD and they are airing the 2009 Star Trek film in 1.78:1 widescreen at 1080i (and being down converted to 480i 4:3 Letterbox from the 1.78:1) whereas I believe the Blu-Ray and the original film in theatres was at 2.38:1.

But whether you are shooting 4:3 or 16:9 on film, unless you are shooting 3-perf, then 4-perf 35mm (with audio) is natively 1.37:1, or 4-perf Super 35 (without audio) is 1.65:1. In either case 4-perf is natively 4:3 in both its forms. So for Enterprise the framing was the important part, as we can see with "Broken Bow" and the trailer on the ST:TMPE DVD.