TOS-R Season 2 DVDs Announced!
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Who said they're gonna be 120 bucks? Its standard DVD, maybe it'll be less.
Still need to get my filthy hands on the first season...
As a season one TOS-R owner, I have no intention of buying these. The idea of spending more money on a standard definition DVD set is not in the books for me. Now if they were hi-def, that would be another story.
Hey, Paramount, how about a limited edition HD DVD run to go with the first season? Make it only 5,000 pieces. Make it expensive. Make it a collector's item. Many of us Trekkies purchased a HD DVD player primarily to watch the season one discs. How about servicing us?
I know, I know.
Hey, Paramount, how about a limited edition HD DVD run to go with the first season? Make it only 5,000 pieces. Make it expensive. Make it a collector's item. Many of us Trekkies purchased a HD DVD player primarily to watch the season one discs. How about servicing us?
I know, I know.
Why not take advantage of Best Buy's trade-in offer? You can get a gift card for trading in your player and any HD-DVDs you might have.
1) And then I wouldn't have any Star Trek in hi-def. Why would I want to do that? 
2) While I also bought initially a few other titles (Bladerunner, Transformers), I have been buying many more for dirt cheap since Toshiba announced the format was discontinued (I got the Planet Earth box set and Bourne trilogy for $30 each). I just saw Fletch for $10. I'll probably get that. I'll spend $20 on the Matrix trilogy. So far the lowest I've seen is $45. I just keep waiting.
When I find a Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD player for under $50, I'll even buy a back up machine.
This will get me through until 2009, when the Blu-ray versions of seasons 2 & 3 come out and a Blu-ray player is under $200. I'm patient.
2) While I also bought initially a few other titles (Bladerunner, Transformers), I have been buying many more for dirt cheap since Toshiba announced the format was discontinued (I got the Planet Earth box set and Bourne trilogy for $30 each). I just saw Fletch for $10. I'll probably get that. I'll spend $20 on the Matrix trilogy. So far the lowest I've seen is $45. I just keep waiting.
When I find a Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD player for under $50, I'll even buy a back up machine.
This will get me through until 2009, when the Blu-ray versions of seasons 2 & 3 come out and a Blu-ray player is under $200. I'm patient.
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$119.99
I would rather way for the Blu-ray versions for both seasons.
I'm happy enough to buy a standard DVD Remastered Season Two boxed set. It should still match Season One in packaging, and no CGI TOS episodes have been aired in Australia - although some capital cities had "The Menagerie" on the big screen. Even ignoring the added CGI, the clean-up of the old live-action footage is spectacular, even on my small widescreen TV!
If Blu-Ray and HD are supposedly even more spectacular than the standard side of Season One, that would be amazing; I guess I'm only really missing the bonus "pop-up" stuff by not being able to play the HD side.
I'm glad that CBS bothered to do that back-to-back standard/HD version for the first season, because had they done HD only, a lot of people would have got stuck.
Just my opinion, but I think you're making a mistake.
The differences between the Remastered versions and the originals really aren't worth buying a whole additional set.
Remastered episodes that are in high def, that'd make it worth it (possibly), but not when they're just standard def. That's not much better than what's airing on American TV.
A movie that screams out to be seen in HiDef.
No I'm not. I want to see the wonderful remastered SPFX, and I'm willing to pay.
The clean-ups and colour corrects between the first and second boxed set releases of season one are amazing, even on a regular TV.
But Australia isn't getting the episodes on TV in remastered format.
Sorry, I disagree. The new digital transfers from film are simply beautiful. TOS has never looked so good, even in standard def syndication. It's like looking at non-faded filmclips. The new special effects are just icing on the cake.
That said, I'll wait for it to come out on Blu-ray to buy it.
Totally agreed. Watching the regular DVDs versus the HD DVDs (forget the new effects), the difference is remarkable. It isn't just the greater definition, which helps, but the much more vibrant colors. Star Trek looks tremendous in HD.
I have speculated here that they must have done a full transfer of the episodes, including all the old effects, when they did the hi-def transfer. They had to. They didn't know what and where the new effects would all be at that point. It is easier to just transfer and clean up the entire episode. Now that I'd like to see. The one good thing I can come up with about Paramount not releasing the remastered episodes on Blu-ray at this time is that maybe when they do that, they'll put out both the original and remastered versions in HD within the same box set. Now that I'd buy in a heartbeat!
I have speculated here that they must have done a full transfer of the episodes, including all the old effects, when they did the hi-def transfer. They had to. They didn't know what and where the new effects would all be at that point. It is easier to just transfer and clean up the entire episode. Now that I'd like to see. The one good thing I can come up with about Paramount not releasing the remastered episodes on Blu-ray at this time is that maybe when they do that, they'll put out both the original and remastered versions in HD within the same box set. Now that I'd buy in a heartbeat!
There are obvious steps, seeing these, that get progressively WOW:
Original TV broadcast.
Sci-Fi Editions from 1996.
The DVDs of the originals.
OTA Broadcasts of the new remastering.
Standard DVD of the Remasters.
720p h.264 encodes from the HD-DVDs.
HD-DVDs.
The Standard DVDs don't compare to the new remastered SD DVDs. But buying each stage is a rip. Paramount actually took pity with this last set and packaged the SD with the HD.
Original TV broadcast.
Sci-Fi Editions from 1996.
The DVDs of the originals.
OTA Broadcasts of the new remastering.
Standard DVD of the Remasters.
720p h.264 encodes from the HD-DVDs.
HD-DVDs.
The Standard DVDs don't compare to the new remastered SD DVDs. But buying each stage is a rip. Paramount actually took pity with this last set and packaged the SD with the HD.
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