Then why is it only some DVDs? And why do the exact same DVDs look crap on different tvs?
No, I'm positive it's the DVDs themselves.
News Season One hitting DVD/Blu-Ray in November
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No, I'm positive it's the DVDs themselves.
I do get where you're coming from. I started collecting the Harry Potter films when they first hit DVD. Movies 1-4 had very good picture quality and tons of extra features. When the fifth film came out on both blu-ray and DVD, I opted to stick with DVD for the rest of the series so to complete what was already half of the series. Films 5 and 6 had very subpar video quality for DVD unfortunately. And to add insult to injury, films 7 and 8 were only single disc releases, with "additional scenes" as the only special feature. All those cool special features movies 1-6 got on the DVDs? No luck for the DVDs of 7 and 8. Gotta cough up for blu-ray. Eventually I found a Black Friday deal for the entire blu-ray set for $35 and got that, eventually selling off the DVDs on ebay.
So yeah, it sounds like CBS put a subpar DVD release for DISCOVERY, which is no longer an unusual thing studios do. I assume only niche companies like the Criterion Collection still work to put out their DVD titles in the best possible quality.
So yeah, it sounds like CBS put a subpar DVD release for DISCOVERY, which is no longer an unusual thing studios do. I assume only niche companies like the Criterion Collection still work to put out their DVD titles in the best possible quality.
Sounds like they’ve compressed the video so that they could fit more on a DVD. Just recently I picked up a DVD of the 80’s 1/2 hour 65 episode cartoon “COPS” that Mill Creek put out in 2017. Mill Creek had issued the series in 2011 spread across 6 discs (about 10 episodes per disc), however in 2017 they reauthored the DVD’s so that the could use 5 discs with 13 episodes on each disc. Did the quality ever drop.
Discovery wasn't. Deleted scenes and documentaries on all four disks.
Yeah, but the quality could suffer from compression. Even with Dual-layer 9.4 GB, the longest recording time with good quality is 4 hours. Anything longer and you are needing to compress the video to a lower quality. As an analogy think of VHS. Imagine CBS put the series on VHS, but instead of using 4 T-180 tapes that could hold 3 hours on each tape in SP mode to record the 12 hours of Season 1 and bonuses and they might need another tape for the bonuses, depending on the length of the bonus docs), imagine CBS used 2 T-120’s that could hold 6 hours on each tape in EP/SLP mode. It would still be VHS quality, but you would get better quality from the SP recordings than the EP/SLP recordings. Same with DVD: the less compression the better quality.
If there’s four episodes AND special features on ALL discs, then that will be impacting the video quality of the episodes. That’s why past series DVD sets usually relegated the special features to the last disc. I’ve seen shows that try to cram more than four episodes of an hour series into a disc and the results are always atrocious.
What do you think the ideal number would be?
Basically what the older shows did. Four episodes per disc or less, depending on the running time of each episode.
Meh.. this is why I don't buy DVDs if a better source is available.
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The Klingon subtitles were turned on my blu-ray copy by default. More and more it sounds like the DVD version was done by amateurs.
who needs subtitles anyway? are you not fluent in tlhIngan Hol? How do people enjoy SeQpIr in his native laguage? Are you reading translations?
*raises hand*
Me! I'm the type of person they were designed for. Slightly hearing impaired.
Rememeber ST: D Season 1 had two 'short' episodes (38 minutes total run time each) and quite a few that we're 42-44 minutes.
I kind of like that the show only runs as long as the story demands, so it's neither too short or too long. The longest episode IIRC is "Brother" which was a full hour long.
Later.Any preliminary guesses as to when Season Two will hit Blu-ray/DVD.
(I know, I know, I"m jumping the gun here)
That would enable them to cross-promote with the Picard show. Sounds about right.
