I suggest switching to the mono track. The problem is that the new audio is in surround sound, and if your set isn't connected to a surround sound system, it does weird things to the audio.
Personally, I'm waiting until I get a BluRay player and just getting those.
The digital mattes are the most consistently successful of the new effects.
Thankfully the original versions are on the Blu-ray (which sort of contradicts the argument the originals couldn't be released in HD)
Thankfully the original versions are on the Blu-ray (which sort of contradicts the argument the originals couldn't be released in HD)
The argument wasn't that the originals "couldn't be released in HD", it was if they were released on their own on HD, some/many of the purchasers might have become very angry that there was no measurable improvement to the originals they already owned on DVD.
Thankfully the original versions are on the Blu-ray (which sort of contradicts the argument the originals couldn't be released in HD)
The argument wasn't that the originals "couldn't be released in HD", it was if they were released on their own on HD, some/many of the purchasers might have become very angry that there was no measurable improvement to the originals they already owned on DVD.
Everything I read from the Okudas and CBS etc. was that they thought the original effects would look terrible in HD, not that the rest of the footage wouldn't look better in HD.
Everything I read from the Okudas and CBS etc. was that they thought the original effects would look terrible in HD, not that the rest of the footage wouldn't look better in HD.
And that's what I meant. The FX of the originals, not the whole episodes. The rest of the footage was film. Of course that bit looks fine in HD.
For the sake of clarity, the original effects footage is also on film. The problem is that cranked up to HD, all the little irregularities of optical compositing, that went relatively unnoticed on the typical color tv set back in the day (and started to become visible when the resolution of the typical home set doubled) become glaringly obvious.
I was happier as a child watching them on black and white fuzzy UHF than as an adult in HD.
I was happier as a child watching them on black and white fuzzy UHF than as an adult in HD.
I do admit that Star Trek seemed more special back then.
For the sake of clarity, the original effects footage is also on film. The problem is that cranked up to HD, all the little irregularities of optical compositing
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