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The OFFICIAL STNG-R general discussion thread!

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Harvey said:
The early seasons of The X-Files were really protected for widescreen? I haven't read that before, but I hope it's true. The transition between seasons 1-4 and 5-9 is a bit jarring; shows that shift aspect ratios mid-run (The West Wing in season two, Farscape in season four) drive me a little crazy, honestly.
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Isn't that when the show shifted production from Vancouver to Los Angeles?
 
Brikar99 said:
Harvey said:
The early seasons of The X-Files were really protected for widescreen? I haven't read that before, but I hope it's true. The transition between seasons 1-4 and 5-9 is a bit jarring; shows that shift aspect ratios mid-run (The West Wing in season two, Farscape in season four) drive me a little crazy, honestly.
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Isn't that when the show shifted production from Vancouver to Los Angeles?
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Season 6 is when they moved to Los Angeles. They shot season five, the last to be filmed in Vancouver, in widescreen (possibly because they had just shot the feature film wide?).
 
Thank you for asking them about DS9. I really do think remastering it for HD will be feasible, and I hope TNG-R will be enough of a success that CBS will decide to move ahead and do DS9 afterward.
 
Shame they couldn't do anything about the black cards on the rear station. Still, as they rightly say, it's all part of the mythology now! I bet they look even more jarring in HD!

Great interview. Thanks.
 
Jefferies said:
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It's not a review of the remastering process, it's a review of the entire product, the quality of the episodes, the extras and everything.
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Season one of TNG has been out for 24 years now. Its been reviewed to death. With the blu ray release the news is not so much in what the episodes are like from a storytelling point of view but in how they have been remastered. By all means throw in your two cents on what you think about the episodes personnally, but I don't see the point of leaving out the main news item. Journalism is about informing about new information, right? So okay he wrote about the bonus features, but thats only the extras, what about the main product?
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I don't see the problem here. This isn't a news article, it's a critical analysis of a product or piece of art, which is perfectly valid no matter how many other times it's been reviewed or when it was released. In fact, retrospective reviews are usually more interesting, balanced and considered than those written at the time of original release.
Your objection to the piece seems to be that because there are no detailed reviews of the remastering process, that other types of review should not exist either.

Equating it to the writing of a six-year-old is baseless and kind of petty, frankly. I would simply suggest, if a retrospective review of TNG doesn't actually interest you, to ignore it and move along. "These are not the droids you're looking for."

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^ Gotta agree there, actually. Who is going to seek out reviews of this set thinking, well gee, I wonder if TNG season 1 is a good watch?
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There are unquestionably people who haven't seen it before, but more commonly people who haven't seen it for many years and would like their memories refreshed. But, ultimately, a review can just be criticism for criticism's sake. That doesn't make it worthy of derision. It's just words on a page, in a sea of pages that make up a rich tapestry of thought. Criticism and journalism might be somewhat interchangeable, but one doesn't have to always be the other. What a boring place the world would be if it was.

A million and one people will painstakingly breakdown every single aspect of the remastering, all in good time. :)
 
I've only seen maybe half of Season One. I started to watch it on Netflix a while back, but when I heard about the remastering I decided to hold off and watch that instead.
 
There you have it; they've confirmed that the "easter egg" in Naked Now is the TOS-E replacing the refit-E.

I'm somewhat disappointed they didn't go back and fix the color of the animation. I'm not sure how that is any less of a mistake than the incorrect Enterprise being shown. I'd call making something a color other than what the artist intended would be a mistake that could be justified being fixed. I think minor changes like that to get closer to what the original designers intended would be great, but I also understand why they're leaving things like that the same and I respect their decisions.
 
FrontierTrek said:
I'd say they have their price wrong. According to the price history, it's bounced around between just 4.95 and 35.77 there for the past 6 days - plus, it has a release date of September 5. Something's obviously gone wrong
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In Italy Star Trek blue rays and dvds are always a little late. :)
I bought the blue ray for the 2009 movie in France two months before it came out in Italy. :)
 
That was a terrific series of interviews. It was an honor just reading them. Really in-depth answers, and they've gotten me even more stoked for the release. Mike, Denise, Doug and everyone else involved in this restoration effort totally rock.

Oh, DS9 in HD. Ah, it'd be so lovely.
 
I would love to see DS9 in HD. I've been wanting to re-watch it for a while now since there are several episodes I've never seen. HD would definitely be the way to see it!
 
I get chills thinking about the battles in The Die Is Cast, Way of the Warrior, Sacrifice of Angels, and What You Leave Behind in crisp HD. I really do.

And then I think about things like the poignant moments in The Wire, The Visitor, Children of Time, A Time to Stand, Far Beyond The Stars, In the Pale Moonlight, The Siege of AR-558. Those parts remastered might have me even more pumped.

Man, I love DS9. :D
 
JarodRussell said:
Even Friends was protected for widescreen. I tend to consider what they did on TNG a bit of a sloppy job.
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Had to reply to this remark. I've been following the whole Friends on Blu Ray debate (I for one don't see the point of owning a sitcom on BD, but anyways). Friends wasn't protected for widescreen or intended for widescreen viewing at all. Look at these shots of a recent HD broadcast.

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Sorry about the poor quality, but you get the idea. I for one still respect and support the decision to keep TNG in 4:3 as it was intended to be seen.
 
I'm glad you saved me the trouble of pointing that out, Scotty. (I've been following that one too. :) )

There were plenty of shows that supposedly protected for widescreen...and very few of them actually did do so properly.

Friends, Buffy, Babylon 5...all with some manner of short-sightedness regarding future widescreen presentations. I don't see why TNG is suddenly being criticized for being filmed in the same way that TV shows had been doing for decades.

Hindsight is 20/20. :)
 
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