Star Trek the Next Generation...?

[starbase_62]

I'm watching Star Trek season 2 and I'm totally blown away by how beautiful it looks and sounds.
Has ANYBODY heard when Paramount may begin releasing the Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager or Enterprise on Blu? I can hardly wait!

[loqstar04]

last i heard TNG-VOY were close to impossible (meaning more difficult and costly) to put on blu in full HD .... Enterprise on the other hand was filmed using HD equipment so it's probably gonna come in the next year or so... another easy release to blu would be the animated series

either way i wait ever so patiently saving money for the impending cost

[talstarone]

Originally Posted by loqstar04

last i heard TNG-VOY were close to impossible (meaning more difficult and costly) to put on blu in full HD .... Enterprise on the other hand was filmed using HD equipment so it's probably gonna come in the next year or so... another easy release to blu would be the animated series

either way i wait ever so patiently saving money for the impending cost

I hope they will find someway to get Voyager on Blu Ray.I know its one of the least popular Star Trek Series.But for some reason I found it to be my personal favorite of the Star Trek Saga.

[Sharpie]

I purchased and watched the TNG MPC and really enjoyed the experience, it was awesome...releasing Enterprise on Blu will definately be a buy signal for me!!!

[TheZoof]

I have never bought them before so I would jump on them in Blu-ray.

Complete Series $250. SOLD.

LOL

[whbinder]

There are some very detailed discussions on this board as well as on thedigitalbits.com and trekmovie.com. I'm not saying this to snark, only to point you to some places that can provide more info than I can in this brief post.

In short.

Enterprise and The Animated Series could make the transition to Blu-ray without too much hulibaloo. It would of course cost some money for the transfer, but nothing out of the ordinary.

TNG, DS9 and Voyager on the other hand can't be done the same way as TOS (and even if they could, keep in mind that it took two years to complete three seasons of TOS)

The '80s/'90s shows were shot on film, but were edited on SD video. Also, all the effects shots were rendered in video. So creating - for example - a single episode of TNG wouldn't be an issue of grabbing an old film reel and creating a master. It would be going back to all the raw footage and then either getting the original editing notes or watching the original episodes frame by frame to build the episodes again from scratch. And then find some way to create the special effects in high def. Which would mean either re-rendering the shots (which may exist for Voyager) or re-filming the original pick-ups.

So creating one episode would be something of a large production. Possible? Absolutely. More and more viable in the future as more technology comes to light? Sure. But currently, it wouldn't be a kind of big project, it would be a tremendously long term and expensive product. And while TNG is very very popular. The kind of 2009 money involved would be extraordinarily high.

[whbinder]

Quick follow-up to my own post. (How vain)

On a related note, The Director's Cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture isn't currently on Blu-ray because the effects were not rendered in HD. The original files exist, so rendering them and mastering them is pretty reasonable when Paramount decides to invest a little money in it. It was just a little more than they wanted to throw at it for this last release, so the theatrical version came out alone.

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by whbinder

On a related note, The Director's Cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture isn't currently on Blu-ray because the effects were not rendered in HD. The original files exist, so rendering them and mastering them is pretty reasonable when Paramount decides to invest a little money in it. It was just a little more than they wanted to throw at it for this last release, so the theatrical version came out alone.

I had been wondering about that.

Thanks for your posts whbinder.

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