TV Star Trek: The Next Generation (HD)

[Garwoofoo]

First episode of series 2 was The Child, in which Troi gets raped by an alien lifeform and no one much cares. Nice.

[AK Bell]

First episode of series 2 was The Child, in which Troi gets raped by an alien lifeform and no one much cares. Nice.

It all pretty much ends the same way in Nemesis

[Sprite Machine]

[Sprite Machine]

Some new promotional stills from the upcoming Season 3 set. These look absolutely stunning, especially compared to the murky originals. I love what they've done here.

http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/03/exclusive-tng-remastered-season-3-blu-ray-hd-preview-stills/

[Mr Do 71]

Some new promotional stills from the upcoming Season 3 set. These look absolutely stunning, especially compared to the murky originals. I love what they've done here.

http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/03/exclusive-tng-remastered-season-3-blu-ray-hd-preview-stills/

Sexy.

[freezycold]

Goddammit Riker was hot in that

[Mr Do 71]

The Best of Both Worlds blu-ray is only £6.99 @ Sainsburys.

Out in April.

[Hanzo the Razor]

Thanks! Amazon order cancelled

[Sprite Machine]

Season 4 Blu-ray trailer:

http://youtu.be/41nXGFB53W0

[Mr Do 71]

Excellent.

[Sprite Machine]

It's a shame we don't get the theatrical screenings in the UK, but I was lucky enough to watch The Best of Both Worlds blu-ray on a friend's projector screen last night, and the quality is absolutely fantastic. It does not look 24 years old at all, it looks positively brand new. The picture is crisp and clear and the newly composited special effects looks outstanding.

By comparison, we watched season 2's 'Q Who' beforehand (remastered by an outsourced team), and although it's nice and clean and sharp, the extra sparkle that CBS-Digital adds in-house just isn't there. The ships don't blend with the backgrounds quite right, they're too washed out, and the big pull-out reveal of the Borg interior (which is supposed to be a an awe-inspiring moment), was spoiled somewhat by the overly smooth picture due to excessive grain removal. One thing they did improve on is when the dead Borg drone in engineering disappears, there's now an excellent dissolve effect and a burn mark on the carpet.

Aside from that, CBS-Digital's work is just so much better. Better colours, better constrast and yet it still looks how you remember it looking. Just when you get used to everything being in HD, there's actually three seconds of upconverted footage in the Best of Both Worlds feature (it appears in part 2), and when it happened we all went "bleugh! WTF?" (or words to that effect), as we were suddenly reminded of just how awful the show actually used to look.

It's lovely now, though. I must have them all in HD! I just need to sell one of my livers to afford it. It's okay, I can get by with just one.

[Meh]

The upconverted stuff wouldn't look as bad on an SD set, I'd say.

[Haribokart]

The upconverted stuff wouldn't look as bad on an SD set, I'd say.

Defeating the very point of the project in the first place.

[Meh]

Quite, but back-in-the-day, on your 14" little CRT, it probably looked just fine.

[Dandy_Sephy]

If you need a good comparison between how it used to be on VHS, and the gloriousness of the new versions (yes, even season 2), you can do no better than the hybrid extended The Measure of a Man.

[Peter]

Yeah, but that features scenes recovered from someones VHS copy of the raw cut. Not really fair compared to studio quality SD masters.

[Dandy_Sephy]

I'm not comparing it to proper masters though, I'm comparing it to how it was on VHS, which many of us would watch the series on for many years.

[Girth Certificate]

FINALY

:lol: :lol:

[SqueakyG]

Ugh, that belongs in the "most desperate thing you've ever masturbated to" thread...

[Dandy_Sephy]

Guilty much?

[Looper]

CAN'T UNSEE IT

[Meh]

[Sprite Machine]

Season 5 Blu-ray trailer (yes, already):

[Garibaldi]

That is rather fast. Hopefully they learnt their lesson with season 2 and haven't outsourced it again.

[Sprite Machine]

The outsourcing was for even-numbered seasons (2, 4 and 6), to give the core team at CBS-Digital enough time to get three per year done. However, a couple of things have changed since then. Firstly, the company involved with season 2 (HTV Illuminate Hollywood) was not brought back, presumably because their work wasn't quite up to scratch, so another post production company called Modern Videofilm has been put onto season 4 (due for release at the end of this month).

Secondly, the CBS-D team has gotten bigger and more effecient at the remastering process, so they are now going to work on season 5, 6 and 7 themselves.

They must be a fair way through season 5 to have a trailer prepared already. Seasons 6 and 7 will be out by this time next year. I'm hoping for a complete boxset to be released around the same time, but my resolve will probably crumble before then.

Still no definitive word on DS9 getting the same treatment, but it's been rumoured for a while.

[Garibaldi]

Interesting info, thanks.

Not so bothered about DS9, probably because I already have the full set of DVDs.

[Lorfarius]

DS9 will be frikkin glorious in full HD Bluray. Heathen.

[Comrade]

It was unlikely that they would do DS9 in HD for ages because they'd lost all the CGI data for the later seasons (and would therefore have to make it from scratch). However, recently a whole bunch of the data has been rediscovered, making it a lot more likely: http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/05/deep-space-nine-in-high-definition-one-step-closer/

[Sprite Machine]

http://trekcore.com/blog/2014/10/deep-uk-discounts-on-tng-ent-blu-rays/

The Blu-ray season sets are currently reduced on Amazon.co.uk for an unspecified length of time. £17 - £18 for each of the first five seasons. Quite a considerable saving over their original prices!

There's also going to be an all-in-one boxset released alongside S7 in December, however the pre-release price is currently £219.99, which is nearly seventy quid more than the individual ones are currently going for. It's also green, if that bothers you more.

[McCoy]

I think the price of the complete boxset will be under £100 before too long. I also hope, perhaps without much success, that the complete boxset will include the standalone double episode releases which the States have had (we also got Best of Both Worlds) which combine the episodes into one feature and also have exclusive extras.