News Season One hitting DVD/Blu-Ray in November
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Why does the picture on the DVDs look so crappy? I've noticed this with a lot of DVDs lately. Grainy and pixelated as hell.
I have tons of older shows on DVD that still look fantastic when viewed on a bluray player, but these Discovery DVDs look like utter garbage. Sad thing is, the grainy image is still there when viewed on a regular DVD player as well. So the problem is obviously with the discs themselves.
I have tons of older shows on DVD that still look fantastic when viewed on a bluray player, but these Discovery DVDs look like utter garbage. Sad thing is, the grainy image is still there when viewed on a regular DVD player as well. So the problem is obviously with the discs themselves.
Is your TV bigger than when you started collecting them? Even PS3 games look blurry now on a 65 inch tv.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the DVDs are subpar. Studios haven’t been putting out quality DVDs ever since the advent of blu-ray. I remember THE DARK KNIGHT and the HARRY POTTER movies starting from the 5th film had horrible picture quality with a lot of pixelating and aliasing. Rumor is they intentionally put out bad DVDs so to widen the picture quality gap between them and their blu-ray counterparts. It’s pretty unfortunate. Now most DVD releases are barebones it seems.
No, it's the same TV Ive always used. It's the DVDs not my tv. Like I said, I have tons of older tv shows on DVD that look great. This show does not. Neither do any of my Arrow or Flash DVDs. Grainy as hell. Pop a Stargate SG1 DVD or a Battlestar Galactica DVD in, though, and they look almost as good as bluray.
Companies just aren't trying anymore.
Why buy the DVD when you have a Blu-ray player? DVD is not even HD?
Some of the best DVDs still look pretty presentable on HD displays from what I’ve seen. That’s why I haven’t double dipped my entire collection of DVDs for blu-ray upgrades, especially if the blu-ray upgrades are subpar. TUC for example looks horribly slathered with DNR that the upgrade from its DVD counterpart is marginal at best.
However, it’s the better, theatrical cut that was not previously available and is in its original aspect ratio—two compelling reasons to put up with the less than stellar video quality.
Because I'm OCD and all my other ST stuff is on DVD. Plus, DVD is supposed to still look just fine when played on a bluray. It is most definitely NOT supposed to look this bad.
Also, I'm not a huge fan of Discovery, so I went for the cheaper of the two.
TOS and TNG are stellar on Blu-ray.
Depends on how well the Blu-ray player upscales by old Sony one was terrible at DVD playback. Each to their own but I would always get the better quality one of buying . Having upgraded to a 4k TV the short comings in DVD is result apparent.
It's most likely the TV. Not all TVs are good at upscaling non-HD content to HD/4K
Maybe because they don't need another sub fee on top of their other ones and know they're getting better bang for their buck this way.
A far better question, why pay a monthly subscription when you can get the show to keep for much cheaper and in better quality? I just saw it for $25.00 at Wal-Mart. Thats less than 3 months of a sub fee
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My point is that sometimes the upgrade to blu-ray isn’t always that ideal, strictly speaking from picture quality (putting theatrical cuts aside). I’ll use another example: GOLDENEYE. The blu-rays of the Bond series have all been pretty well received, but that particular film ended up being the ugly duckling of the lot due to heavy DNR being applied as an older HD master was used, as opposed to a freshly scanned one like the other movies got. I believe this only just got recently fixed with a new 4K that the series recently received.
Which makes me hope Paramount will soon do a new 4K transfer of the remaining films desperate for a remaster, whether for streaming or psychical media. If MGM (a studio in lesser condition than Paranount) can pull off 4K transfers of all 24 Bond films, Paramount shouldn’t have too much trouble doing that for 9 (TMP, TSFS-NEM)
Fair points. I think MGM partners with Sony/Columbia for those—Paramount would likely need a similar arrangement.
I think potential revenue the remasters would generate is probably the sticking issue. Trek just isn't the big dog it once was.
Although I have largely switched exclusively to buying blu-rays, I understand why people still buy DVDs instead even though they have an HD TV and a Blu-ray player. Basically, DVDs are cheaper and they play in a Blu-ray player anyway. I know some studios, Twentieth Century Fox especially are cutting back on Blu-ray releases, at least as far as TV shows are concerned because DVD sales are still surpassing Blu-ray sales.
The Sony/Columbia partnership was only for the joint production and theatrical distribution of the first four Craig films, which expired after SPECTRE.
They could do what MGM has done with Bond and just distribute 4K digitally without a physical media release. Remastering in this instance would only be a fresh new scan of each film. They’ll probably never do a remaster of the DE cut of TMP, but that’s about it.
