Star Trek TOS Season 1 Query

[bluwombat]

Have started watching this & just let me say how fantastic it is in BD - the re-mastering is a real treat. I so like also being able to see the original version on the same disc - just one small problem which I am hoping someone here may be able to help me out with. The instructions say u can flip from the original to the re-mastered version while you're watching it (i.e., in real-time) by pressing the 'Angle" (or pop-up menu) button on yr remote. Now this only seems to work sometimes - other times when I press the button it says "feature not available here".

Is anyone able to shed any light on this for me. FYI, I'm playing BD thru my Playstation & using the PS3 bluetooth remote. Appreciate any help...thx.

[Raymond23]

Originally Posted by bluwombat

Have started watching this & just let me say how fantastic it is in BD - the re-mastering is a real treat. I so like also being able to see the original version on the same disc - just one small problem which I am hoping someone here may be able to help me out with. The instructions say u can flip from the original to the re-mastered version while you're watching it (i.e., in real-time) by pressing the 'Angle" (or pop-up menu) button on yr remote. Now this only seems to work sometimes - other times when I press the button it says "feature not available here".

Is anyone able to shed any light on this for me. FYI, I'm playing BD thru my Playstation & using the PS3 bluetooth remote. Appreciate any help...thx.

They re-did the outdoor effect shots only (well, a couple random other shots). So, you can only use the angle botton during those shots (ie: Enterprise orbiting a planet...)

[bluwombat]

Ah! Now it makes sense...so it's not quite as 'seamless' to switch between them as the marketing blurb would have you believe...oh well! It's still a terrific transfer. Thanks.

[KC-Technerd]

I believe you can switch between versions at any time by pushing "POP UP/MENU" on your remote, then scroll up above the left side menu to the small camera icon, and click on it.

[iori]

You can switch but only during the scenes that have remastered effects, sometimes the scenes are so short you may have missed your chance you might need to back up and hit the button to see the difference.

[pEgLeG]

Originally Posted by bluwombat

Ah! Now it makes sense...so it's not quite as 'seamless' to switch between them as the marketing blurb would have you believe...oh well! It's still a terrific transfer. Thanks.

Quite seamless actually, you just have to realize that the option is only available during scenes in which there is a remastered effects sequence like someone already mentioned.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by KC-Technerd

I believe you can switch between versions at any time by pushing "POP UP/MENU" on your remote, then scroll up above the left side menu to the small camera icon, and click on it.

I think this work, well I saw my friend doing this with his Sony 550 but it did not seem to work for me on my Samsung, not sure if it's my player.

[Anthony P]

seamless branching has to do with the movie appearing seamless, you don't see where it branches out (i.e. most of the movie is the same but where the old vs new happens it branches for one of them)

for the original question, if you use the pop up menu you can set old vs new at any time and it sets it for old/new when it happens. If you use angle you can only do it during the parts which have old vs new.

[bluwombat]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

seamless branching has to do with the movie appearing seamless, you don't see where it branches out (i.e. most of the movie is the same but where the old vs new happens it branches for one of them)

for the original question, if you use the pop up menu you can set old vs new at any time and it sets it for old/new when it happens. If you use angle you can only do it during the parts which have old vs new.

Thx everyone - really appreciate all the feedback.

[cathexist]

Though this doesn't deal with the OP question, I thought it appropriate to ask this question here as opposed to starting a new thread:

I wanted to confirm that the TOS season 1 release includes the pilot where Kirk is not present...I heard that it does, but I haven't been able to confirm it yet.

EDIT: I think I found my answer from the highdefdigest review "However, it should be noted that this box set does not contain the first produced pilot episode ('The Cage' starring Jeffrey Hunter as Capt. Christopher Pike) that was rejected by NBC. We can expect that episode at the end of the eventual Season 3 box set."

...that's a little disappointing, but hopefully they're right in the fact that it may be on the season 3 boxset

[Clark Kent]

Originally Posted by cathexist

I wanted to confirm that the TOS season 1 release includes the pilot where Kirk is not present...I heard that it does, but I haven't been able to confirm it yet.

It is not on the season one set, it has always been included with the season three set and should be on it when it comes to Blu-ray.

This set is really fabulous and the remastering looks awesome. Skip the awful movie set and get season one.

[cathexist]

Season 1 will be in my hands today I believe...it was shipped overnight to me yesterday.