The OFFICIAL STNG-R general discussion thread!

[BillJ]

As long as they look as good in motion as the still pics do, I'll be on the hook for the first two seasons (my personal favorites of TNG). May go up to season five depending on quality and extras, just like the TNG DVD's. Just not enough passable content to justify buying seasons six and seven.

 

[Captrek]

It can only mean one thing: Captain Braxton is coming! ;-)

Daddy Braxton is ready to hand out the cigars as soon as he comes through that rift.

 

[Trekker4747]

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[BillJ]

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If you need that explained to you, well...

 

[Trekker4747]

Well, it looks nothing at all like a vagina, so....

 

[BillJ]

Well, it looks nothing at all like a vagina, so....

I can see a resemblance to the lips before they are parted. And this conversation just went to a weird place!

 

[Trekker4747]

It looks more like an ass-crack to me. Vaginas are more flowery, with lips, labia, folds and clitoral hoods and such. A couple of lines together in small arcs does not a vagina make.

LINK - #1 on the list, bottom of the page.

Those or giant vaginas. (What's the term for that? The female term for a "phallic symbol.) Hell they even have the clitoris! Those two vaguely curved lines right next to one another?

Not so vagina-y.

 

[Captrek]

It's not an anatomically accurate depiction of the human vulva. It's somewhat suggestive of a vagina in the same way a cigar is somewhat suggestive of a penis. The idea of someone entering a universe or timeline through a rift that looks like that is particularly suggestive of childbirth. It just takes a tiny bit of imagination.

Of course, I'm the guy who found [POST=5326732]this image[/POST] suggestive of mating, so maybe it's just me.

 

[gaghyogi49]

There can be only one vagina in Star Trek:

 

[22 Stars]

Yup , just you and now back to our regularly scheduled thread....

 

[Trekker4747]

There can be only one vagina in Star Trek:

That's at least slightly more vaginal-opening like. Still needs the clitoris though.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Before everyone gets too excited about the release schedule, I'd point out that there's no credible source for this information.

We've access to both of the press releases so far and neither of them contain this quote of 2 years.

There's a slight possibility (very slight) that this person picked it up from a post I made on Blu-ray.com on December 20th:

The process of gathering the film reels and scanning them to 4K files is probably an ongoing process that will take years to complete. We're talking about 25,000 reels of film. The fastest 4K full aperture scanner can run at 15 frames per second. An average 2,000 foot reel of film has 31,680 frames. So that would take about 35.2 minutes per reel. Multiply that by 25,000 and it comes out to about 611 days non-stop just to scan the film. So, one year and nine months -- nearly 2 years! So, yeah... it's going to be longer than that.

Meanwhile, the editors cut the episodes back together without VFX, then they hand it over to the compositors and VFX artists. They're probably working on a few episodes at a time, at various stages of completion. At some point the scanning process will come to an end, probably when they have nearly half of the seasons out on Blu-ray... and they'll continue to complete the VFX for the seasons and episodes that are left.

But I should add that I could be wrong and they might be using a real-time telecine, in which case the process would take around 382 days non-stop because it would only take about 22 minutes to scan each reel. Of course, it takes time to load each reel onto the telecine and put a new HDCAM-SR tape into the deck... plus technicians wouldn't be working there around the clock. Unless Paramount/CBS is paying for that, of course!

Maybe they have more than one scanner...

 

[Maxwell Everett]

Before everyone gets too excited about the release schedule, I'd point out that there's no credible source for this information.

We've access to both of the press releases so far and neither of them contain this quote of 2 years.

There's a slight possibility (very slight) that this person picked it up from a post I made on Blu-ray.com on December 20th:

The process of gathering the film reels and scanning them to 4K files is probably an ongoing process that will take years to complete. We're talking about 25,000 reels of film. The fastest 4K full aperture scanner can run at 15 frames per second. An average 2,000 foot reel of film has 31,680 frames. So that would take about 35.2 minutes per reel. Multiply that by 25,000 and it comes out to about 611 days non-stop just to scan the film. So, one year and nine months -- nearly 2 years! So, yeah... it's going to be longer than that.

Meanwhile, the editors cut the episodes back together without VFX, then they hand it over to the compositors and VFX artists. They're probably working on a few episodes at a time, at various stages of completion. At some point the scanning process will come to an end, probably when they have nearly half of the seasons out on Blu-ray... and they'll continue to complete the VFX for the seasons and episodes that are left.

But I should add that I could be wrong and they might be using a real-time telecine, in which case the process would take around 382 days non-stop because it would only take about 22 minutes to scan each reel. Of course, it takes time to load each reel onto the telecine and put a new HDCAM-SR tape into the deck... plus technicians wouldn't be working there around the clock. Unless Paramount/CBS is paying for that, of course!

Maybe they have more than one scanner...

That's certainly true. It could cut the time in half, or even a quarter. They could also be using multiple transfer labs considering the huge workload.

 

[JJohnson]

Excellent news. I hope it isn't too long before the series starts streaming on Netflix, because as excited as I am about this project, I doubt I'll be picking up the season sets. I hope the bluray sales are great, but these days I can't justify dropping even $30 on a bluray set, let alone what Paramount is actually going to charge for these things. I have Netflix specifically so I don't have to spend the money on movies.

I'll definitely be getting sampler, though.

Anything more than $50-$60 then I'll go Netflix. The DVD sets were way overpriced when they first came out.

 

[Squiggy]

There can be only one vagina in Star Trek:

???

 

[RAMA]

From the latest press release...

All 178 episodes from seven seasons will be transferred to true high-definition 1080p for release over the next two years on Blu-ray.

A time frame for the releases.

Wow. That's a lot faster than I would have thought! I'm going to have to do some serious sucking up to my wife!

This just doesnt seem possible, i guess re-editing fx is going to be a lot quicker than all-new fx..

 

[Dac]

There can be only one vagina in Star Trek:

???

That's not nice, we all know he's a Wang.

*rimshot*

 

[RAMA]

Really enjoyed the 1080p trailer...I'd like to see at least one more with 2 min of footage from elsewhere in the episode.

Did anyone else notice that the extras includes a "season one trailer"?? I am assuming this is a different trailer than the sampler disc.

 

[trekker670]

Yes, the set will include both the original trailer (the one they released first, without the additional comparison footage) and a brand new trailer for Season 1.

 

[gaghyogi49]

From The Digital Bits:

"Speaking of cool review discs, CBS's long-awaited Star Trek: The Next Generation - Remastered BD sampler disc just arrived here at The Bits' offices this afternoon, so rest assured I'll have a full review of that on the site sometime tomorrow."

:-)