Star Trek: Enterprise Season Three

[jblank]

Noticed there was no thread on this, so I figured I would start one, if only to say.......YUCK! What a horrible.....HORRIBLE looking Blu-Ray. Frankly, with as soft, blurry, and washed out as the picture frequently looks, I think the reviewer was quite generous with his score. Amazingly, and I'm not really sure how this could be, I think Season 1, as bad as it was, might even look better (on average) than Season 3, which is such a shame, because I think Season 3 of Enterprise is one of the best Trek seasons ever. It might be a decent upgrade from the DVD set (sold mine a long time ago so my memory isn't 100% clear on it) but I'm not sure it looks any better than the HD streaming feed on Netflix.

[Deathbymonkeys]

I agree. This is my favorite season of television ever and I'm on disc 5 and aside from a handful of ship shots it's pretty awful. Just barely better than dvd. Very, Very disappointed. Wondering how Ds9 and Voyager will fare at this point.

[Natrix1973]

Originally Posted by jblank

Noticed there was no thread on this, so I figured I would start one, if only to say.......YUCK! What a horrible.....HORRIBLE looking Blu-Ray. Frankly, with as soft, blurry, and washed out as the picture frequently looks, I think the reviewer was quite generous with his score. Amazingly, and I'm not really sure how this could be, I think Season 1, as bad as it was, might even look better (on average) than Season 3, which is such a shame, because I think Season 3 of Enterprise is one of the best Trek seasons ever. It might be a decent upgrade from the DVD set (sold mine a long time ago so my memory isn't 100% clear on it) but I'm not sure it looks any better than the HD streaming feed on Netflix.

Actually there is a thread already.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=228391

[jblank]

I apologize. I read the review and clicked the "forum" button on the review and didn't see one listed for Season 3. A mod can delete this thread if need be, sorry about that.

[BouCoupDinkyDau]

Originally Posted by Deathbymonkeys

I agree. This is my favorite season of television ever and I'm on disc 5 and aside from a handful of ship shots it's pretty awful. Just barely better than dvd. Very, Very disappointed. Wondering how Ds9 and Voyager will fare at this point.

I have a feeling DS9 will be treated well, but I bet Voyager is probably going to get the same treatment as Enterprise.

The following of these shows drops off chronologically. A lot of people who don't even watch Trek liked The Next Generation, but not even all of the Trek fans themselves liked DS9, and fewer even like the other two shows.

Bottom line = if it sells, they care about it. If it doesn't, they don't.

Can't blame 'em.

[CouncilSpectre]

Originally Posted by BouCoupDinkyDau

I have a feeling DS9 will be treated well, but I bet Voyager is probably going to get the same treatment as Enterprise.

The following of these shows drops off chronologically. A lot of people who don't even watch Trek liked The Next Generation, but not even all of the Trek fans themselves liked DS9, and fewer even like the other two shows.

Bottom line = if it sells, they care about it. If it doesn't, they don't.

Can't blame 'em.

DS9 and Voyager will likely both get the TNG treatment.

Enterprise was originally rendered at 1080p for live-action, and 480p (occasionally 720p) for visual effects shots. The easiest thing for CBS I guess was just to upscale (the VFX) rather than go down the re-render route and get the product out the door with the minimum of work/effort. Can't do that with either DS9 or Voyager. Sure you could just upscale both but that would look awful - just look at the Trials & Tribble-ations episode of DS9 on the TOS Season 2 set. It's arguably worse than SD.