Yeah this will be pretty epic.
I read a few weeks back that Levar Burton (Geordi La Forge) dropped by the Paramount Studios to get a sneak peek at the proceedings and he described the new cut as simply incredible.
You're not wrong that it'll be a metric fuckton of work. Apparently they didn't have much choice to go back to the original film negative and starting from scratch because even though it was shot on 35mm and can be scaled to 1080p, all of the special effects were only ever done in SD. It was either redo everything, release a really shitty blu-ray conversion or not bother.
Excited for this. Watching TNG is a bit of a pain now, it looks blurry as fuck. Lucky they kept the 35mm reels, unfortunately another series I love, Farscape, didn't :(
magic, love to see some ds9 in hd, i love the show but struggle to rewatch it in fuzzy 4:3. Going to take ages though, only 3 eps available in Jan. Cant expect season 1 for some while after it.
Why, it's in 4:3? Does it really need to be re-released on BD?
Pretty sure unlike the Star Trek TOS blu rays they will cut it to 16:9.
magic, love to see some ds9 in hd, i love the show but struggle to rewatch it in fuzzy 4:3. Going to take ages though, only 3 eps available in Jan. Cant expect season 1 for some while after it.
S1 one out in 2012, I image it will take a few years to have the whole thing done.
I hope they don't stop after a few. I stupid you can get Sopranos S1 and S6 on Blu Ray and the rest are DVD.
I own all 25 Star Trek TNG, DS9, Voy and Ent DVD box sets, and all except Ent are 4:3 :/
The cuts they've released for broadcast, VHS and DVD are, yes. When they're coming from the film negative they can do all sorts of things like cropping differently per shot, do CGI compositing into existing shots to extend the frame, and possibly even use additional picture information that has never been broadcast.
So for something different, was watching the new My Little Pony with my girls and realised the voice of the baddy in the first two episodes of season 2 was John de Lancie, aka Q. was random, much.
It's unlikely the Blurays will be 16:9. The TOS Blurays were 4:3 after all, though when the HD masters aired on TV they were 16:9 (much like Seinfeld is). There is additional information on the sides in the 16:9, but only a little.
4:3 is fine anyway, it's how it was originally shot and the bump up in resolution should look great even if there is pillarboxing at the sides.
Looks like you're right SwissCM
TrekMovie is saying it'll be 4:3 The 35mm negative has 1.37:1 picture information, so while they could play around with the framing of the live action to get it into 16:9 it doesn't look like they're going to. It's probably for the best though, just looking back at Encounter at Farpoint some shots I reckon it'd be ok and other shots it'd look bizarre. Besides, that'd add even more to the mega workload of redoing all the effects...
Back then the starship model footage was all shot on 35mm as well, not created digitally.
I guess that means the full frame effects shots will likely be the original aspect ratio also.
The loyalty to the original series is evident, even down to retaining the now outdated 4:3 aspect ratio.
Of 178 episodes, only three have undergone the process to so far, which are now available to pre-order on Blu-ray for $21.99, and will be released on the 31st January. CBS aren't stopping at that, though: the rest of the seven seasons will be worked on in time, with the full series one being released in a box set by the end of 2012.
I saw a few of the Star Trek episodes on GO! and they were really good.
Great sound some new SFX and widescreen, they chopped some of the vertical like Seinfeld, but someone told me it was filmed on some kind of film that made it easier to do whereas TNG was shot on tape ?
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