TOS re-release for the 60th

[ichab]

My questions would be,

• Are we missing anything in the 1080p (basically 2K) presentation that 4K would provide?
• Are the fading negatives up for this, at this point in the 21st century?
• Would the studio just upscale its existing 2K scans with AI and charge us for 4K?

I think the 2006 CGI would be the biggest problem. They would have to update that stuff because to my eyes some of those images look tacky.

Even back then, I would have been fine with a simple remastering and clean up of the film. That was really all that show needed.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I personally think they look better than the low budget mid-2000s CGI, but your mileage may vary.

The remaster FX were video gamey crap when first released. Easily one of the worst examples of a "special edition" ever authorized.

The next logical step would be to release 4K versions of TOS. It is too bad they did not do it for the 60th anniversary, instead, just re-releasing the same resolution we have had since 2009, 17 years ago is absurd! Who is running their marketing department????

People who are guided by the principal of low investment/large profit if they can get away with it.

 

[Kor]

My questions would be,

• Are we missing anything in the 1080p (basically 2K) presentation that 4K would provide?
• Are the fading negatives up for this, at this point in the 21st century?
• Would the studio just upscale its existing 2K scans with AI and charge us for 4K?

I think the increase in resolution wouldn't be very noticeable to the human eye. But the 4K format offers marked improvements in bitrate and color quality/depth, compared to 1080p blu-ray.

I'm not sure what process was used to do the original HD scans that were used for the blu-rays, but its possible that the scans contained more data (and therefore had even greater quality) than what ended up on the blu-rays for home release due to the limitations of the blu-ray format.

It might be worth looking at feature films that used similar Kodak film stock as TOS, and comparing 4K release with blu-ray. A quick and lazy Google inquiry suggests that "You Only Live Twice" and "The Graduate" are a couple possible examples.

Kor