Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 Blu-ray March 26, 2013 Review

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Originally Posted by Lincoln6Echo

(2) supposedly 1080p renders would look too sharp and contrast too much with the live action stuff.

This is the most pathetic excuse for lazy mastering that I have ever heard.

The studio cheaped out and didn't want to spend some extra cash to do it right. The end!

Originally Posted by d514

I don't think they will scan the negatives for the first three seasons again because effects like phasers etc. would have to be done again, like TNG.

The first season aired in 2001/2002. We all know how HD masters from that time can look on Blu-ray. Negative scanning improved a lot in the last 10 years. So even the real life scenes will probably not look as good as the ones in TNG.

Not saying that I won't buy the show on Blu-ray, but I'm not so sure the quality will be as good as a lot of people think.

I've already watched the 1080i airings on HDNet and the iTunes HD copies.

Enterprise does not look very good at all. I hesitate to say that the live action shots have even as much detail as a good 720p transfer; a lot of times it looks almost as bad as an upscale.

It's not a problem with the negatives, of course - it's the early 2000's transfer from 35mm @ 2k. The series needs to be scanned back in with modern 4k or higher scanners.

The current transfer of the show looks like Universal's garbage catalog transfers prior to Universal smothering them with DNR and edge enhancement. Assuming that Paramount doesn't decide to molest the current poor transfers with DNR, you can expect marginally better picture quality than a catalog Universal Blu-ray.

Star Trek TOS and TNG are leagues ahead in terms of visual quality compared to the current Enterprise masters.